So Much More Than Manners

Julian Freeman:

I want to provide you with my compilation of New Testament texts and teaching on thankfulness. I think the best way to use it is to download the PDF, print it, go through the texts one-by-one and make notes on them. That being said, I know that many of you (a) won’t do that, or, (b) won’t do that without convincing, so I’m going to offer a few highlights here.

Kindle deals for Christian readers

• One with Christ by Marcus Peter Johnson—$4.99
• Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions by John Piper—$2.26
• Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxas—$3.99
• How to Stay Christian in Seminary by David Mathis & Jonathan Parnell—$4.79
• Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspectives on Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace edited by Schreiner and Ware—$4.39
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• Singing the Songs of Jesus by Michael Lefebvre—$2.86

And in case you missed them, here are a few from earlier this week:

• Against the Gods: The Polemical Theology of the Old Testament by John Currid—$1.99
• What Is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever—$1.99
• Hedges by Jerry Jenkins—$4.99
• Gospel-Centered Teaching by Trevin Wax—$2.99
• The HCSB Study Bible—$2.99
• Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore—$3.99
• Grounded in the Faith by Ken Erisman—$2.99
• The God Who Is There by D.A. Carson—$5.89

 When Staff and Lay Elders Collide

Good discussion between two pastors—Richard Phillips and Ryan Kelly—and lay leader Bob Doll:

The Politics of Silence: Questions for Peter Leithart

Matthew Lee Anderson:

It was just over a year ago that Louie Giglio withdrew from participating in President Obama’s second inauguration because of the uproar surrounding his twenty-year-old comments on homosexuality.

Since then, much of substance has changed in America’s culture wars, even if each side’s rhetorical posture has not. Facile cliches about history and bigotry still get tossed about by pro-gay activists, while conservative concern about the steady marginalization of traditional views from the public square reached a new pitch this past December when…well, we all remember that one, don’t we?

Do You Feel Tension in the Christian Life?

Jason Helopoulos:

The Christian life can feel schizophrenic. It isn’t hard to recognize that there are numerous tensions filling the Christian life. Some find this exhilarating. However, many of us find that these tensions are a cause of discouragement, despair, hopelessness, and depression. We look at our lives and they are not what we want them to be.