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R.C. Sproul – The Prince’s Poison Cup

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Tonight I had the chance to read a pre-release copy of The Prince's Poison Cup (now available directly from Ligonier Ministries). In this wonderfully illustrated fifty-eight page children's book, a grandfather tells his granddaughter a story that mirrors man's fall in the Garden of Eden and Christ's redeeming work at Calvary. The context for the story is the illness of a man's granddaughter. She has to drink medicine to get well. The girl naturally asks why the medicine tastes so bad. And that results in her grandfather recounting the story of the prince and the poison cup. The prince … [Read more...] about R.C. Sproul – The Prince’s Poison Cup

The Prodigal God and Bi-Directional Self-Righteousness

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Tullian Tchividjian, discussing Tim Keller's recent book The Prodigal God, offers some helpful thoughts on how self-righteousness can be manifest by both the legalist and the licentious. An excerpt: Now, it’s very interesting that in the Bible it’s always the immoral person that gets the Gospel before the moral person. It’s the prostitute who understands grace; it’s the Pharisee who doesn’t. It’s the unrighteous younger brother who gets it before the self-righteous older brother. Tim’s book points this out well. There is, however, another (perhaps more subtle) side to self-righteousness that … [Read more...] about The Prodigal God and Bi-Directional Self-Righteousness

Tim Keller – The Prodigal God – Now Available

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Tim Keller's latest book, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith, is now available. The origin of this short, convicting, and compelling book is a sermon Pastor Keller gave a few years ago on Luke 15:11-32. I read a pre-release copy of this book a few months ago and found it to be simply outstanding. Here's the nub of it: There are basically two ways of abandoning God. The first is the way of the younger brother--reckless abandon to all of God's moral authority, an unbridled launch into debauchery and licentious living. The second is the way of the older brother. … [Read more...] about Tim Keller – The Prodigal God – Now Available

Finding Your Vocation

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Boundless just published an article I wrote on discovering your vocation. It is based on interactions I've had with a variety of college students over the years on choosing a major/career path (as well as my own personal journey). The opening: A hundred years ago young adults did not have anywhere near the mind-boggling and almost debilitating number of options available today. In general, sons took on the line of work of their fathers, and girls adopted whatever domestic, social, and vocational roles their mothers held. It wasn't so much about "finding your calling" as it was about your … [Read more...] about Finding Your Vocation

USA Today: Church Giving “Lukewarm”

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USA Today gives this decidedly unflattering report: Americans spent nearly twice as much on first-day sales of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV as would be needed by the Southern Baptist Convention to share the gospel with all the world's "unreached people groups" by 2010, according to a new report on church giving.This data comes from the annual report of Empty Tomb Inc. -- an Illinois-based ministry dedicated to helping the poor and assisting "historically Christian congregations increase missions spending as a portion of total spending." The USA Today article goes on to note that while … [Read more...] about USA Today: Church Giving “Lukewarm”