Here’s the video to show your kids at the end of Expedition 17 of Exploring the Bible. If you want to bookmark a page where all the videos will eventually appear, you can find them on my blog, on YouTube, or the Facebook page for Exploring the Bible.

If you haven’t started your kids on the book yet, you can begin anytime and use it with any Bible version. Here are some sample pages.

You can get it at RHB, Westminster Books, Crossway, or Amazon. If you’re in Canada use Reformed Book Services. Some of these retailers have good discounts for bulk purchases by churches and schools.

Blogs

Should You Pursue a Ph.D.?

Why Christians Blogs Aren’t What They Used To Be – Tim Challies

I Resigned as Pastor: Personal Reflections and Congregational Encouragements – Credo Magazine

Core Christianity | A Funeral Sermon for My Friend Who Committed Suicide

Hope for the Person Contemplating Suicide | Counseling One Another

Rosaria Butterfield: Christian Hospitality Is Radically Different fro… | Christianity Today

Stop Making Hospitality Complicated | Mere Orthodoxy

The Film You Have Been Waiting for: PURITAN – Tim Challies

5 Things Every Parent Should Know About Sleep | Doc Parsley’s Sleep Remedy

Students learn more effectively from print textbooks than screens, study says – Business Insider

Kindle Books

Still a few more days to get a free audio version of Reset.

Among many memorable moments on my recent trip to Israel, the one that touched me most deeply was visiting the shore where Jesus met the disciples after his resurrection and graciously restored Peter by asking him, “Peter do you love me?” I couldn’t help but hear the same question coming from Jesus to me and wanted to just say out loud in the same spot, “Lord you know all things, you know that I love you” (John 21:17).

Blogs

The Moral of Moral Failings of Christian Leaders
Ed Stetzer addresses the rash of fallen pastors and urges change. Along similar lines here are 3 Spiritual Vitality Warning Signs for Pastors, which includes five practical questions to help keep your personal spiritual vitality alive and well. How to Lose a Pastor in 10 Years was written by the daughter of a fallen pastor.

How the Proverbs Turn Poverty into Prosperity
“The route to alleviating material poverty is first alleviating social poverty. As the Proverbs show—and now economics too—living and institutionalizing behaviors that lead to right relationships is the surest route to end poverty, in this generation and the next.”

The Church and Mental Health: What Do the Numbers Tell Us?
“LifeWay Research conducted a survey in partnership with Focus on the Family and an anonymous donor to gauge the perceptions of pastors, churches and those suffering from mental illness on a wide range of related topics. The following is a brief synopsis of what we uncovered:”

7 Ways to More Thinking Time
“Oftentimes, I do not have time to sit and think simply because I overcommit. So, when you are busy—and we’re all busy—we need principles we hold to in order to simply think, dream, and strategize. Here are seven strategies that I use to implement more brain time into my life.”

15 Things Seminary Teaches Me that My Busy Pastor(ate) Can’t | Greg Lanier
“An unfortunate side-effect of the ‘what seminary can’t teach me’ motif is that it can unintentionally validate the broader trend that undermines the utility and role of seminary training altogether.”

If We’re More Connected Than Ever, Why Are We So Lonely?
“We’ve never experienced this level of connectivity in human history, and yet we are increasingly lonely.”

9 Things You Should Know About the Creation of Modern Israel
“On Wednesday and Thursday, the modern state of Israeli celebrated the 70th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. Here are nine things you should know about the creation of the modern Israeli state.”

Kindle Books

Here’s the video to show your kids at the end of Expedition 16 of Exploring the Bible. If you want to bookmark a page where all the videos will eventually appear, you can find them on my blog, on YouTube, or the Facebook page for Exploring the Bible.

If you haven’t started your kids on the book yet, you can begin anytime and use it with any Bible version. Here are some sample pages.

You can get it at RHB, Westminster Books, Crossway, or Amazon. If you’re in Canada use Reformed Book Services. Some of these retailers have good discounts for bulk purchases by churches and schools.

Blogs

A “Ten Commandments” Prayer
One for the closet.

Living the Christian Life with C. S. Lewis
Raving review of a new book.

Charles Spurgeon’s Call to Preach Christ in a Christly Manner
“As we share the gospel with friends and neighbors, Spurgeon reminds us that it is Christ—in all the multifaceted glories of his person and work—who must be the focal point of our message and the treasure we offer. And as we do that, we will properly adorn our message as we share Christ’s own zeal, Christ’s own courageous meekness and simplicity, and Christ’s own love for both God and neighbor.”

10 Things Teachers DID NOT Have to Deal With 10 Years Ago
“Something is wrong—very, very wrong. Teachers across the country at all grade levels, in all subjects, teaching a wide variety of student populations, can sense it. There is a pulse of dysfunction, a steady palpitation of doom that the path we are on is not properly oriented.”

Why you should Read the Westminster Confession of Faith
New online course. And you may also want to check out the regular podcast working it’s way through the Westminster Confession. The latest episode is on Christ’s Humiliation and Exaltation

PURITAN – All of Life to the Glory of God
New documentary/teaching film

Dear Church: Hear the Word of the Lord
Good word to the church about how to handle abuse.

Kindle Books

God’s Mighty Acts in Salvation by Starr Meade $2.99.

Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More? Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior $0.99.

Beating the College Debt Trap: Getting a Degree Without Going Broke by Alex Chediak $1.99.