Logos Bible Software is giving away thousands of dollars of prizes to celebrate the launch of Logos Bible Software 4 Mac on October 1. Prizes include an iMac, a MacBook Pro, an iPad, an iPod Touch, and more than 100 other prizes!
They’re also having a special limited-time sale on their Mac and PC base packages [...]

The same power that made things to be, that first moment that ever they were, is now exercised to make them to be this moment and is continually exercised to make them to be every moment that they are.  God’s preservation of the world is nothing but a continued act of creation… Whenever a body [...]

This globe of the earth, if we attempt to conceive of it, appears a thing of a mighty bulk. Some other of the heavenly hosts are immensely greater in bulk. The sun is a body in comparison of which the earth is but a little speck, but this is as nothing in comparison [...]

This is an excellent piece from Tullian Tchividjian on gospel centered ministry.  Here is an excerpt:
Since Jesus secured my pardon and absorbed the Father’s wrath on my behalf so that “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,” how does that impact my longing for approval, my tendency to be controlling, [...]

read it.

1.  Read the Old Testament, carefully, often.
2.  Pray for understanding.
3.  Read John Sailhamer. (Here is a link to a recent interview with John Sailhamer by Christianity Today)
(HT: Justin Taylor)

Trevin Wax @ Kingdom People is giving away a massive amout of books.  To get in on the action, click here.

Thank you to all who participated in the drawing.  I had a cute little video of my daughters pulling the names out of the hat, but it didn’t turn out, so I have this less exciting picture of the three names that were drawn.

As you can see, the picture isn’t that great either.  So, for [...]

The following is from my correspondence with a dear friend on the issue of faith and works.
The question you raise about the historical reformed and conservative contemporary reformed  understanding of justification and its relation to works/obedience is often misunderstood and not well represented, especially by its opponents.
I first would like to say, that I find [...]

And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear… (Philippians 1:14)
why?  This doesn’t make much sense if you think about it.  If I see someone park in a handicap parking spot and get a ticket for it, it doesn’t encourage [...]