A Praying Life, free on Kindle. I know nothing about this book except that 1) it was well-reviewed when it came out and 2) one of my mentors used it in discipling a good friend. If that good friend wants to pipe up in the comments, he’s welcome!
Mark Ward
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"I don’t like anything here at all." said Frodo, "step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid." "Yes, that’s so," said Sam. "And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started." My wife and...
New ESV Edition!
This is your source for breaking ESV news! We've done it before; we're doing it again! This photo was sneaked out of CrosswayWorld 2012, and it shows what appears to be a prototype version of the new large-print, parallel Spanish-English ESV Study Bible®! I like how...
Cursed Platitude!
When you have a baby, a chocolate wrapper’s platitudinous advice must be read in a new light. Instead of tempting you to indulge, it just mocks you, taunts you. I think I must save this wrapper until my oldest child is five or so.
Are You an Inbox Legalist?
It’s not legalism; I just feel like I’m a better person when my inbox is cleared. I feel like a better person about twice a year, I’d say.
New Website
I’ve turned byfaithweunderstand.com into an advertisement for Forward Design. Check it out.
The Rosary
I read the Sermon on the Mount often as a child—mainly because I thought it was cool that it was the biggest stretch of red letters I could find in the New Testament. But Jesus’ teaching there is so simple and powerful that, despite my inane motivation, Jesus’ famous...
BibleWorks Favorites
I can read English, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew, German, and Latin, in that order of fluidity. Truth be known, my German is mainly structural, my Latin mainly vestigial—though the latter is strengthened by my Greek. This mix of training means I can piece together a good...
I ♥ Instapaper
I checked, and only a few of the cool people—by no means all—are using Instapaper. I’m here to change that. Cool people of the world, unite! You’ve just got to try Instapaper, especially if you have a Kindle and/or an iPod Touch like me. All you do is install a...
Agape Love
One of the most popular linguistic and exegetical fallacies in modern times is that the Greek word for love, agapao, carries in it the implication of a divine love that is unconditional and comes to us in spite of our sin. That is not true. Context must decide if...