Tim Challies
Tim Challies, a self-employed web designer, is a pioneer in the Christian blogosphere, having one of the most widely read and recognized Christian blogs anywhere (www.challies.com). He is also editor of Discerning Reader (www.discerningreader.com), a site dedicated to offering thoughtful reviews of books that are of interest to Christians. He is author of The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment, published by Crossway.
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God's Gag Reflex
Read an outside view on Calvinists or Calvinism, and you are sure to read something about God’s wrath. The God of Calvinism is a wrathful, vengeful God, boiling over in anger against any part of...Monday, December 8, 2008
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Reading Classics - Mere Christianity
Here we are, at the beginning of another round of Reading Classics Together. In the past months we’ve read four great Christian classics...Thursday, December 4, 2008
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Doubt and Assurance
Many fine Christians spend much of their lives doubting their salvation while other nominal Christians live in reckless assurance of their right standing before God. Meanwhile, many people today...Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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A Great Servant; An Evil Master
It’s a question you’ve probably asked. Why is it that when you are looking for a house, driving slowly down a darkened street straining to see the numbers on the fronts of the homes or on the...Monday, December 1, 2008
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Audience of One
The Call by Os Guinness is a book that was on my list of things to do for a long, long time before I actually settled down to read it. But once I got into it, I was amazed at just how much wisdom...Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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10 Tips to Read More and Read Better
The subject of reading has been much on my mind lately. I love to read but often receive emails from people who struggle to read and struggle to enjoy reading. Thus I thought it might be beneficial...Monday, November 24, 2008
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Memorizing Scripture Together
A few days ago I announced Memorizing Scripture Together—a program or effort dedicated to committing to memory passages and verses of Scripture. I had hoped to have at least thirty people agree to...Sunday, November 23, 2008
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Darwin on the Right
"Because the theory of evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, it should be embraced. The senseless conflict between science and...Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Reading Classics Together
I’m inviting you to read one of the classics of the Christian faith with me. Read on to find out more…Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Book Review - A Visual History of the English Bible
I wanted A Visual History of the English Bible to be a standout. A book that I spied in a catalog and knew I just needed to read, it deals with a topic I love and in a way that is fresh and...Monday, November 17, 2008
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The First and Primary Object
It was a couple of years ago now that I read George Marsden’s great biography of Jonathan Edwards. As I read it I was often stopped short by Edwards’ wisdom. Constantly surrounded by conflict, and...Friday, November 14, 2008
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Three Cups of Tea
I eventually gave in to the pressure. I had seen "Three Cups of Tea" on the shelves of airport bookstores, in the hands of friends and on countless bestseller lists. I thought it was only right...Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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A Righteous Man
Every believer carries a measure of the guilt for Jesus’ death. Was it not for our willful disobedience to God’s perfect Law, we would have no need of a Savior. We acknowledge in song that it was...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Dominican Republic - Random Reflections
Now that I have returned from my travels, I thought I’d offer a few random reflections on the Dominican Republic. These are things that popped into my head at one time or another, but which didn’t...Monday, November 10, 2008
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Dominican Republic - Ordinary Superheroes
This is our last day in the Dominican Republic. Tomorrow morning we will head for the airport and from there we will fly for home, leaving the developing world and returning to the developed world....Thursday, November 6, 2008
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Dominican Republic - God’s Hidden Gifts
Have you ever looked through the photos of children at Compassion’s site or at a table at a concert and wondered why sometimes five or six girls are wearing the same dress? It’s not a school...Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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Dominican Republic - The Business of Hope
I must have met 100 children today; 200 maybe. I had children touching my skin, poking my nose, grabbing my ears, hanging off my back, arms and shoulders, poking their hands into my pockets and...Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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Dominican Republic - Not All Is Paper
This afternoon we toured through Compassion International’s Dominican office. There we saw the men and women who create the programs, who choose which children will be selected for sponsorship, who...Monday, November 3, 2008