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How much do we love the Word of God? How much do we conform our lives to the teaching of the Scriptures by faith?

How thankful we should be that we have the pure Word of God reliably translated into our Mother Tongue!
They are accessible to the unlearned and the poor, everywhere in simple English. But such a privilege carries with it, my reader, a solemn responsibility.


This is a portion of a post written by Nate over at Presbyterian Thoughts. It is short but convicting. Do we really love the Word of God?? Pop on over and take a few seconds to read his post "What Do You Think Of This Book" and comment!

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Timmy Brister is hosting the 2008 Puritan Reading Challenge. This is a great way to introduce yourself to the Puritans. He has arranged an excellent deal with Reformation Heritage Books on the twelve books he'll be covering this year, and he will be posting discussions on each as he goes. To top this all off, there will also be a lot of extra stuff going on such as giveaways, extra information, and interviews.

Here is what Tim says about how the 2008 Puritan Reading Challenge was born.

Towards the close of 2007, I began thinking of a way I could challenge myself to grow spiritually through a reading regiment and schedule. While riding home from work one morning, I came up with the idea of reading one Puritan Paperback a month, along with incorporating the Valley of Vision in my devotional meditations and prayers. I shared my personal challenge publicly, not thinking much about it.

To my surprise, this Puritan reading challenge has resonated with more people than I could have ever imagined. Due to the high level of interest and encouragement from many people wanting to take on this reading challenge together, I have worked to make this Puritan reading project the best it could be.

by: Tim Brister

My husband and I have decided to join up in the 2008 Puritan Reading Challenge and I encourage you to consider doing so. We are starting a little late as we just purchased our books today and must wait for them to arrive. My hubby already has the Valley of Vision book mentioned above but I had to have him order a second one for me. He loves it so much I rarely can get my hand on his copy! So we will be using the Valley of Vision book along side the reading challenge as well as our daily Bible reads. I am doing a chronological read through the Bible this year.

Here is the list of books and the timeline for the Puritan Reading Challenge.

January: The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes (128 pp)
February: The Mystery of Providence by John Flavel (221 pp)
March: The Godly Man’s Picture by Thomas Watson (252 pp)
April: Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks (253 pp)
May: Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ by John Bunyan (225 pp)
June: The Mortification of Sin by John Owen (130 pp)
July: A Lifting Up for the Downcast by William Bridge (287 pp)
August: The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment by Jeremiah Burroughs (228 pp)
September: The True Bounds of Christian Freedom by Samuel Bolton (224 pp)
October: The Christian’s Great Interest by William Guthrie (207 pp)
November: The Reformed Pastor by Richard Baxter (256 pp)
December: A Sure Guide to Heaven by Joseph Alleine (148 pp)

Click on the button to learn about all of the details and to order your books if interested!

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WINTER READING CHALLENGE

Click on the icon for the link. It's not really a contest, but Trish is giving away a $25 Amazon gift certificate to one participant! You need to read her original post so you know what to do, like sign Mr. Linky with a direct link to your post once you've had a chance to make a list of the books you intend to read between January 7 and March 17, 2008. Also, As an added incentive, she will be sending one lucky participant a $25 gift certificate to (where else?) Amazon.com. she'll do a random drawing from the names of everyone who posts both an initial list by Monday, February 11, 2008 and a post about their results at the end of the challenge. The drawing will be held Monday, March 17, 2008 sometime in the evening. The winner's name will be posted after the drawing. :)

Here is my list:

• Genesis **COMPLETED**
  
• Job **COMPLETED**
  
• Exodus**COMPLETED**
• Leviticus**COMPLETED**
• Numbers
• Deuteronomy
• Joel **COMPLETED**
• Amos
• Obadiah
  
• Study on Joel (written by one of our elders) **COMPLETED**
• Study on Amos (written by one of our elders)
• Study on Obadiah (written by one of our elders)
  
• Sentinel, City of Destiny (this is for a review, watch for that in the near future)
• The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes
• The Mystery of Providence by John Flavel
• The Godly Man’s Picture by Thomas Watson

This list was way too ambitious for me since committing to the 2008 Puritan Reading Challenge, so I have updated it. I have replaced a few with the books from the Puritan Reading Challenge and even removed a few. I wanted a list that was attainable for me with all I have going on.

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Gospel for Asia is a ministry started by K.P. Yohannan. In each aspect of Gospel for Asia’s ministry, the primary aim is to plant churches among the unreached — those who have never heard the Gospel. Gospel for Asia trains and sends native missionaries because they have proven extremely effective. They are already familiar with the language and culture, and they live at the level of the people they serve, thus removing many social barriers. We have known about this ministry for several years and even were a sponsor for a time. You can sponsor one of these missionaries for $30 a month and 100% of that money actually goes to the missionary and his family.
Gospel for Asia offers a free book, Revolution in World Missions, that will change your life. It brings conviction and gives you a new vision for missions. In this exciting and fast moving narrative, K.P. Yohannan shares how God brought him from his remote Indian village to become the founder of Gospel For Asia. This book will greatly encourage you with stories of what God is doing among the unreached of Asia. I highly recommend this book! It is a book that has brought great impact to my life each and every time I read it! God is truly doing a great work in Asia through this ministry! GFA also has a prayer page, there is a video from K.P. Yohannan about the GFA Prayer Team and the power of prayer!

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This is one of our MUST HAVE books. A day rarely passes when we do not reference this book in one way or another. We absolutely love this book! This book allows you to travel story-by-story (about 250 Bible stories) through Bible lands and times from Genesis to Revelation. Discovering things such as how ancient people really lived; the foods they ate, the homes they lived in, the clothes they wore, the work they performed.

This book includes:

• over 400 colorful pages of photographs, drawings, maps, and charts
• more than 100 drawings from objects or monuments of Bible times,
• over 200 photographs of Bible lands today,
• photographs of more than 50 archaeological discoveries,
• scores of reconstructions and diagrams,
• and dozens of colorful maps.

My children love to be able to see a photograph of the area we are learning about. It makes the lessons come to life. They are able to see photos of Mount Sinai, the Jezreel Valley, the reconstruction of a gate of Babylon, a sycamore tree, the Sea of Galilee at sunset, the Mount of Precipitation; the traditional place where people tried to kill Jesus, and many, many more!

This book is one I highly recommend! In fact, our binding is beginning to break because we have used it so much; we may have to buy another!

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October 31, 1517 is the day that Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. In an era when the Gospel had been eclipsed by a system of human merit, Luther and the other reformers were able to remind the people of God that we are declared righteous in the sight of the Lord through faith alone in the person and work of Christ Jesus.

Ligonier Ministries is celebrating Reformation Day with a one-day special! On Wednesday, October 31st, buy a hardcover Reformation Study Bible (ESV) for only $15.17.


Here's a video with more information on the Reformation Study Bible.

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This is a new addition to our schoolroom this year. I have wanted this book for many years but considered it an "extra" and never purchased it. Well, this was the year I spent the extra money and have been kicking myself ever since for not purchasing it sooner! I love this book and so do the children.

It is great when you are sitting at the table for dinner and amongst the chatter you hear one of the children yell out, "RED HERRING!".

So what is a fallacy?
A fallacy is an error in logic – a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.

The Fallacy Detective contains thirty-six lessons on how to recognize bad reasoning. The book is fun to use and self-teaching. The lessons cover logical fallacies and propaganda techniques. They also explain how you can spot fallacies, and there are exercises to stretch your abilities for detecting fallacies. The book includes a game and many cartoons as examples of the fallacy being covered. The cartoons include Peanuts, Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes, and several original cartoons.

For more information, videos, how to order, and a sample lesson visit Christian Logic.

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Thirteen Books in our Library

1. Reformed Expository Commentary Series
2. Josephus, The Complete Works
3. The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
4. America's God & Country Encyclopedia of Quotations
5. Spirit Warriors by Weber
6. American Soldier by General Tommy Franks
7. Dust to Glory, Overview of the Bible Video Course by R.C. Sproul
8. Love & Respect by Eggerichs
9. The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul
10. The Worship of the English Puritans by Horton Davies
11. Redemption Accomplished a & Applied by John Murray
12. Christian Apologetics by Van Til
13. Backyard Balistics by William Gurstelle

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Several months ago, my husband's grandmother gave me some books she was finished reading. They were books I had often thought looked interesting. I had just never brought myself to purchase them. There are five books in this particular series and I am currently in the midst of reading the third. Set during the time of World War II, this is a story of an Old Order Amish family in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Ebersol family has several courting age daughters. During these years the Amish allow for what is called rumschpringe, the running around years. The youth often find a spouse and decide on joining the Amish church but sometimes it is a time given to sowing wild oats. Parents are not involved in this process and most is done under the cover of night. This series follows the family of Abram Ebersol and his daughters. Their lives take several different paths and secrets are uncovered. This series also gives some interesting insight into the culture of the Amish church. Thus far, I have enjoyed this series and have had a hard time putting the books down. Thankfully, the author Beverly Lewis, seems to have many more to choose from when I have finished Abram's Daughters.

The Official Website of Beverly Lewis.

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Challies is giving away some of the Reformed Commentary Series. These commentaries as you may have discerning from the title, are consistent with the Reformed creeds and confessions. They are biblical (committed to comprehensive exposition of the text), doctrinal (committed to the Westminster Standards), redemptive-historical (committed to a Christ-centered view of the Old Testament), and practical (committed to applying the text to people today). Individual volumes are endorsed by a wide variety of Reformed pastors and theologians.

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Raising godly children is a task that cannot be accomplished apart from God and His grace. I know I could never do it on my own! It is one thing to raise children who by today's standards "stay out of trouble". My goal is larger than that.
Malachi 2:15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
God desires that we raise up godly not just "good"(by our own standards) children. How do we do this? We NEED God and His grace, His strength, and definitely His WORD! This book shown here is a great resource. I know we have our Bibles to use and I am definitely not saying to replace it in any means. What this book does is take the scripture and arranges them as a sort of topical Bible for parents. It includes hundreds of verses on over 50 areas of sin. This book lists what the Bible says about certain sins, parallel consequences, rewards for those who do not indulge in these sins, object lessons, ideas for rewards, and examples of people in the Bible who dealt with these issues, and a lot more. This book can be a great tool as you seek to raise a godly seed. For more info visit Doorposts.

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As a part of our homeschool curriculum we have woven in the teaching of courtship. We have chosen to use books from Castleberry Farms Press.
These books are written to encourage those who intend to follow a Biblically-based courtship that includes the active involvement of parents. The main characters are committed followers of Jesus Christ, and Christian family values are emphasized throughout. The reader will be encouraged to heed parental advice and to live in obedience to the Lord. These books have good story lines and are fun to read. They use scripture throughout and set a high but attainable standard. I highly recommend these books!

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This is a book I am currently reading and greatly enjoying. This is a great book for anyone. Some may not be saved, some may think they are saved but are not, some may be unclear about what this means, for those who already have assurance and understanding of their salvation this provides the opportunity to grow closer to the Lord.
This book according to the author came about when he was abruptly asked if he was saved and his response was saved from what? Saved from people jumping in his face abruptly or something else. Do evangelical Christians today have a clear understanding of the Gospel, of what it means to be saved? Quoted in the book is a survey showing that many do not. many replies where things such as "to have Jesus in your heart or to have a personal relationship with Jesus." What is absent from these responses is anything to do with the person or work of Christ.
I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone! You can order one here...Ligonier Ministries.

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Another Giveaway! This time Biblical Womanhood is giving away a whole set of Vision Forum's exciting new adventure series, Ballantyne books.



Go check it out for details.........

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