Water under the bridge?

Ray Ortlund:

Glib slogans like “That’s water under the bridge,” “I’ve moved on,” or misquoting the Bible with “Forgetting what lies behind . . .” – these are not evidences of salvation.  They are strategies of denial and self-justification.  We might as well scream out, “The cross means nothing to me.  I must establish my own rightness.  So I cannot face myself.”

But real repentance, filled with a wonderful sense of Jesus, has the courage to go back and make wrongs right again in honest, humble, creative ways.

Kindle deals for Christian readers

Here’s a round-up of this week’s Kindle deals, along with a few new ones:

• Let the Nations Be Glad! by John Piper—$2.99
• Brothers, We Are Not Professionals by John Piper—$2.99
• Identity by Eric Geiger—$2.70
• How to Preach without Notes by Charles Koller—$3.99
• When Your Husband Is Addicted to Pornography by Vicki Tiede—$1.99
• True Friendship by Vaughan Roberts—$2.99
• When the Word Leads Your Pastoral Search by Chris Brauns—$5.27
• Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxas—$3.99
• What Angels Wish They Knew by Alistair Begg—$5.77
• Can We Know the Truth? by Richard Phillips—$1.99
• Wesley on the Christian Life by Fred Sanders—$4.99
• Covenantal Apologetics by Scott Oliphant—$4.99
• One With Christ by Marcus Peter Johnson—$4.99
• A Concise New Testament Theology by I. Howard Marshall—$5.68
• Fallen edited by Christopher Morgan & Robert Peterson—$4.99
• The Finished Work of Christ by Francis Schaeffer—$4.99
• How to Stay Christian in Seminary by David Mathis and Jonathan Parnell—$4.57
• Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church by Chandler, Patterson and Geiger—$1.79
• Forever: Why You Can’t Live Without It by Paul Tripp—$1.99
• Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart by J.D. Greear—$2.99
• Gospel by J.D. Greear—99¢
• Simple Church by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger—$1.79
• Bonhoeffer Speaks Today by Mark Devine—$1.79
• Speaking Truth in Love: Counsel in Community by David Powlison—$2.25

What does it look like to open your own Bible for the first time?

HT: Justin Taylor

Srsly

More goodness from Adam Ford:

8 Ways to Reverse the Decline of the American Book Lover

David Murray:

I struggle to find time to read. Yes, I read plenty during working hours for lectures, sermons, etc, but in terms of reading books of choice in my leisure time, I confess I often go to bed disappointed in my use of the evening hours. It’s so much easier just to tap around on the iPad or read blogs. So here are a few strategies I’ve recently been trying to follow to increase my reading.