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Crushed
January 31st, 201210:35 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesDownload: Audio File | Embed: At long last, David Murray and I are back with season 3 of The Connected Kingdom podcast. There’s a few changes this year, the most notable of which is that we are now including a [partial] transcript of the podcast. So you’ve now got the option to ... -
How Francis Schaeffer Saved My Saved Soul
January 30th, 201209:10 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesToday is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Francis Schaeffer. Though I never met the man and though I haven’t read more than small pieces of his books, I owe a great debt of gratitude to him. Schaeffer shaped me by first shaping my parents. To mark this date I asked my parents if they would tell how Francis Schaeffer saved their saved souls ... -
Reviews I Didn't Write
January 28th, 201211:09 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesI love writing book reviews and I love reading them. Since I cannot possibly read and review all of the interesting books out there, I’ve decided to put together some occasional round-ups of reviews written by other writers. Here are a few notable links I’ve collected over the past few weeks. The Biblical Counseling Movement After Adams b... -
Wordsmithy
January 26th, 201210:03 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesLove him or hate him, and there are some on either extreme, Douglas Wilson can flat-out write. He has put this talent to use in writing over thirty books and countless articles, blog posts and the like. In his newest book, Wordsmithy, he offers up a series of hot tips for the writing life, a collection of lessons that he has learned along the way. ... -
A Picture-Perfect Marriage III
January 25th, 201210:08 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesOver the past two days I have been writing about Ephesians 5 and the great mystery of marriage—that in some way marriage is a portrait, a reflection, of the relationship of Christ to his church. In the first article I introduced this metaphor and in the second I spoke about how the wife completes her part of the picture. Paul now speak... -
A Picture-Perfect Marriage II
January 24th, 201210:51 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesYesterday I began a short series called A Picture-Perfect Marriage. This is my attempt to study what Paul says about the marriage relationship being a picture, a portrait of Christ and the church. Having laid that foundation, I now want to look at how the wife fulfills her part of that portrait. Here is what Paul says to wives: You make your marri... -
Mutual Submission
January 24th, 201210:37 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesThere is a lot of debate over how to take the command in Ephesians 5:18-21 to “Be filled with the Spirit … submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.” How you interpret this text is, for many, the dividing line between being egalitarian or complementarian in their view of the roles of men and women in general and husbands and... -
A Picture-Perfect Marriage
January 23rd, 201209:48 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesThis morning I am going to begin just a short series of articles on marriage. Having read several books on marriage in the past few months, I found myself really intrigued by what Paul says about the topic in his letter to the Ephesians. I’ve since had the opportunity to study it and wanted to share what I’ve learned along the way. I am going ... -
Great Interests at Stake
January 21st, 201209:17 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesEarlier in the week I came across a quote by Albert Barnes who was an American theologian during the mid-1800’s. He writes about the Christian’s demeanor or deportment, the way a Christian should carry himself through life. And he says that constant levity is out-of-place in the life of the Christian. I’d be interested in your take on it: ... -
Do All Jobs Have the Same Impact Value?
January 20th, 201203:57 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesIn his answer last week as to whether all jobs have the same intrinsic value, Matt Perman made the distinction between economic value and moral value: Not all jobs have the same economic value because, clearly, some jobs pay more than others. But this doesn’t make some jobs more important than others, because all jobs hav... -
On Doing Ordinary Things
January 19th, 201212:51 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesIt has come as kind of a shock to me, now that I am a pastor and preaching on a regular basis, that the vast majority of the sermons I preach will be rather ordinary. I will study hard and pray hard and work hard, I’ll get started early in the week and give it a couple of days to germinate and give it another look-through early on Sunday morning,... -
How to Build Unity in Your Church
January 17th, 201201:30 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesYesterday I wrote about Satan's Great Desire which is to bring about disunity in your local church, somehow convincing you that the people in your church are no longer worthy of your love. I ended by giving the encouragement that God has equipped us to build and maintain this kind of unity and that all we need to do is use the tools he has equi... -
Satan's Great Desire
January 16th, 201212:07 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesI have been engaged in a study of the second half of Paul's letter to the Ephesians, and, not surprisingly, the themes from that letter have been resonating in my mind over the past few weeks. I have been struck by Paul's emphasis on the importance of love and unity in the local church. On the one hand it's kind of obvious—we need to love th... -
Brother Saul
January 12th, 201211:38 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesA couple of days ago my Bible reading took me to Acts 9, the story of the conversion of Saul. You know how it goes I’m sure. Paul, a vicious enemy of the early church, is on his way from Jerusalem to Damascus so he can begin a whole new wave of persecution against the Christians there. But somewhere between the cities a sudden light shines from h... -
Visual Theology - The Order of Salvation
January 11th, 201210:48 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesIf you have read this blog for any length of time, and especially the daily A La Carte posts, you know that I’ve got a thing for infographics. What appeals to me about them is their ability to display information visually. Just as there are many words that can be used to describe any one fact, there are also many ways to display facts. Toda... -
Grieving, Hope and Solace
January 11th, 201210:39 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesIs it bad form to review a book I was involved in publishing? Perhaps so. Either way, I intend to do just that this morning. Many months ago I read a draft of Grieving, Hope, and Solace by Albert Martin, a book that was subsequently published by Cruciform Press (of which I am a co-founder). It wasn’t until this weekend that I thought to read... -
Learning from a Brother
January 09th, 201205:15 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesIt would not be my preference to begin this way, but I guess I need to say it up front: R.C. Sproul Jr. and I have some significant theological differences, and not only that, but we have differences in areas in which we are both rather vocal. Though we disagree on these things, he and I have often shared cordial emails expressing mutual love ... -
Unexceptional Christians
January 07th, 201210:09 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesHere is a great, challenging quote from Martyn Lloyd-Jones. It is drawn from his Studies in the Sermon on the Mount and it does away with that false notion that the heights of Christian experience are reserved for the few and exceptional Christians who take on Christian work as their vocation. Read the Beatitudes, and there you have a descr... -
Not Putting Sin to Death
January 05th, 201211:28 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesThis is my once-monthly Puritan post. I know that I’ve lost 50% of you with the word Puritan, but don’t be too hasty to run away; if you take the time to read this post, I know that you’ll benefit from it. I am simply sharing some of what John Owen says about putting sin to death. I have been going through John Owen’s book Overcoming Sin a... -
Missing Mike
January 04th, 201211:10 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesI fell asleep last night thinking about Mike. Mike was a friend and colleague, something of a mentor in the first real job I had after graduating from college. I met Mike on the first day at that new job and it didn’t take long for us to click. We were never great friends—we didn’t call one another on the weekends or get our families together... -
The Meaning of Marriage
January 03rd, 201201:51 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesIt must be intimidating to write a book on marriage. Store shelves are groaning under the weight of titles that claim to have the key to a happy marriage, or a biblical marriage or a gospel-centered marriage. To rise above such a crowded field a book needs to offer something different, something unique, something that distinguishes it from the pack... -
Book Review: Real Marriage
January 02nd, 201210:11 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesIt must be intimidating to write a book on marriage. Store shelves are groaning under the weight of titles that claim to have the key to a happy marriage, or a biblical marriage or a gospel-centered marriage. To rise above such a crowded field a book needs to offer something different, something unique, something that distinguishes it from the pac...
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Tim Challies is a follower of Jesus Christ, a husband to Aileen and a father to three young children. He worships and serves as a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto, Ontario, edits Discerning Reader and is a co-founder of Cruciform Press. He has written The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment, Sexual Detox and The Next Story.
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