Keeping the Porch Light on in a Dark World
The Valley of Vision is a collection of Puritan prayers. These are longer than many devotionals, and much, much deeper. The website invites you to visit but not copy their material, so I am merely linking it. You can also purchase the book at the Banner of Truth Trust site.
Link: Valley of Vision
That Jesus Calling is a runaway best seller, is well known. But this book can only be so popular as Biblical-thinking is eclipsed. The rising Biblical illiteracy of Western Christians is highlighted by the popularity of this book, where Jesus is said to say things that He didn’t, but arise from the author’s imagination.
Tim Challies offers a review here, “Ten Serious Problems with Jesus Calling.”
Mark your calendars–this November, Zondervan will be releasing a new book, Homosexuality, The Bible, and the Church. While he hasn’t yet seen the book, Denny Burk has some helpful comments about its release notes.
Burk shows that the way the questions of affirmation are framed is of considerable importance, and he is concerned about the intentions of this book.
Full article here.
Burk and Heath Lambert have themselves addressed these matters in their book, Transforming Homosexuality: What the Bible Says about Sexual Orientation and Change.