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The Bible and Birth Control
February 29th, 201210:20 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesI have been asked to write about the Christian position on birth control. This is something I have discussed in the past, but there are many ways to approach the topic and this time I would like to approach it from a bit of a different angle. I intend to share how I have gone about arriving at my own position. I will begin by immediately stating wh... -
The Intolerance of Tolerance
February 28th, 201211:07 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesSeveral times in the past decade D.A. Carson has been asked to give a public lecture at one university or another. Three times he has taken the opportunity to speak on the subject of tolerance, or intolerance, as the case may be. Those lectures proved the foundation of what would become his cleverly-titled new book, The Intolerance of Toleranc... -
Lessons in Forgiveness
February 27th, 201211:16 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesI am better at sinning than asking forgiveness. This morning, as if to prove this, I found myself thinking about a situation that came up a couple of years ago. For weeks I had been trying to figure out something with a nearby bank—something that should have been simple. It had been a comedy of errors. Every time I tried to do something (anything... -
Don't Skip the Postscript!
February 23rd, 201210:17 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesI spent much of my day yesterday wrestling through a couple of biblical genealogies (and enjoying every minute of it). I found myself reflecting on the end of the book of Ruth where we encounter a short but powerful genealogy. But before I get there, I want to remind you of the final scene in Ruth. As the book comes to a close, we are given a glim... -
Entitlement
February 22nd, 201210:44 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesYou are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Download: Audio File | Embed: This week’s podcast has David Murray an... -
A Pretended Boldness
February 20th, 201212:37 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesThis morning I found myself looking back through some of my old notes on Jonathan Edwards’ The Religious Affections. It is such a dense and sweet book; I found so many powerful quotes and just had to share a few of them with you. (Each paragraph is its own quote, entirely disconnected from the one that follows.) There is a pretended boldness f... -
Reading the Next Classic Together
February 16th, 201210:13 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesIt was back in 2007 that I had an idea that genuinely changed my life. I wanted to read some of the classics of the Christian faith, but I knew that without some measure of accountability I would never have the self-discipline to make it happen. I realized that this accountability could come by reading classics together in community. I decided to ... -
The Middle-Aged White Guy's Guide to Christian Rap
February 15th, 201211:16 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesIt has to be one of the most unexpected phenomena in the church today—that white middle-aged pastors are talking about rap music and, even more strangely, actually listening to it and recommending it. I don’t know that anyone would have or could have predicted it. I certainly wouldn’t have predicted that I would be one of those middle-aged w... -
Introverted
February 14th, 201210:11 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesYou are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. Download: Audio File | Embed: This week’s episode of the Connected Kingdom Podcast (an... -
Never Waste a Good Crisis
February 13th, 201211:21 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesYou never want to waste a good crisis. That is true in politics and religion and any other field that values ideology, that values one thing over another or one thing in place of another. As Christians we know that the Lord often uses times of crisis to call people to himself, that when people are weak, he remains strong and reveals himself as stro... -
Asking Better Questions
February 10th, 201202:16 PM ETBy Tim ChalliesSo how many people go to your church?” That’s a question just about every pastor faces at just about every conference he attends. It usually doesn’t take long for a conversation to progress to that point. For the pastor this can be a moment of great pride or great humility, great freedom or great shame. Regardless, it is a question that alway... -
Are You Living by "The Prius Fallacy?"
February 08th, 201210:30 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesThe Prius Fallacy: “a belief that switching to an ostensibly more benign form of consumption turns consumption itself into a boon for the environment.” That’s how David Owen, in his recent Wall Street Journal article, “It’s Too Easy Being Green,” defines the Prius Fallacy. Here’s how he illustrates it in action: A favorite tri... -
Know the Enemy
February 07th, 201210:08 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesFor thousands of years soldiers have known that to defeat your enemy you must know your enemy. If you go into a battle blind, with no knowledge of the army against you, you can expect to be defeated. But the better you know your enemy—the way he moves, the way he attacks, the kinds of weaponry he uses—the more you can be prepared to defeat him.... -
Visual Theology - The Books of the Bible
February 06th, 201210:05 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesI have now released the first two infographics in a series I am titling “Visual Theology.” Just as there are many words that can be used to describe any one fact, there are also many ways to display facts. I have been working with a few graphic designers in an attempt to display theological realities in infographic form. If you scroll down... -
Sex and the Mystery of Marriage
February 01st, 201210:13 AM ETBy Tim ChalliesLast week I shared three articles titled A Picture-Perfect Marriage. That short series looked to Ephesians 5 and the great mystery that is marriage. I showed from that text that marriage is, and always has been, a portrait of Christ and his church. But at the end of it all I was left with a question: What is the role of the sexual relationship in t...
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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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