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October 1, 2025
Kindle Deals for October 1
Psalms (The Expositor’s Bible Commentary) by Willem VanGemeren – $5.99
Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology by Timothy Tennent – $7.99
Logic and the Way of Jesus: Thinking Critically and Christianly by Travis Dickinson – $4.99
Holier Than Thou: How God’s Holiness Helps Us Trust Him by Jackie Hill Perry – $4.99
Knowing God by J.I. Packer- $4.99
The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski – $1.99
Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments by Joe Posnanski – $5.99
The Football 100 by The Athletic Staff – $3.99
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kepner – $7.99
Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon by Mirin Fader – $2.99
Why So Serious?: The Untold Story of NBA Champion Nikola Jokic by Mike Singer – $1.99
KG: A to Z: An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between by Kevin Garnett – $3.99
The Prince of Tides: An Award-Winning Southern Drama by Pat Conroy – $1.99
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy – $1.99
The Hobbit Illustrated by the Author by J.R.R. Tolkien – $3.99
The Silmarillion: Illustrated by the Author by J.R.R. Tolkien – $3.99
Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another – $8.99
Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life’s most elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality – $8.99
The Pastor’s Kid: What it’s Like and How to Help – $8.99
Help My Unbelief: Why doubt is not the enemy of faith – $8.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
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September 30, 2025
Kindle Deals for September 30
God’s Book of Proverbs: Biblical Wisdom Arranged by Topic – $4.99
Proverbs For You: Giving you wisdom for real life by Kathleen Nielson – $2.99
The Ultimate Commentary On Proverbs: A Collective Wisdom On The Bible – $.99
Understanding the Bible by John Stott – $6.99
How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told by Harrison Scott Key – $1.99
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) by Daniel Nayeri – $6.99
Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography by Rinsey Mills – $4.99
Mother Teresa: An Authorized Biography by Kathryn Spink – $3.99
Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls – $2.99
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by O.V. Khlevniuk – $2.99
One Ranger: A Memoir by H. Joaquin Jackson – $2.99
Service: A Navy SEAL at War by Marcus Luttrell – $2.99
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in US Military History—A Navy SEAL’s Memoir of War and Family by Chris Kyle – $1.99
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle Book 1) by Patrick Rothfuss – $4.99
The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 2) by Patrick Rothfuss – $4.99
The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss – $4.99
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories edited by Lorrie Moore – $3.99
The Castle of Kings by Oliver Potsch – $2.99
Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spuffiord – $1.99
Crazy Heart: A Novel by Thomas Cobb – $2.99
100 World’s Greatest Short Stories – $4.99
Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another – $8.99
Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life’s most elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality – $8.99
The Pastor’s Kid: What it’s Like and How to Help – $8.99
Help My Unbelief: Why doubt is not the enemy of faith – $8.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
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September 29, 2025
Kindle Deals for September 29
Lectures to My Students by Charles Spurgeon – $1.99
Foundations for Lifelong Learning: Education in Serious Joy by John Piper – $5.99
Do Not Be True to Yourself: Countercultural Advice for the Rest of Your Life by Kevin DeYoung – $4.94
The Expulsive Power of a New Affection by Thomas Chalmers – $2.99
How to Memorize Scripture for Life: From One Verse to Entire Books by Andrew Davis – $2.99
Suffering Is Never for Nothing by Elisabeth Elliot – $4.99
Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot – $6.64
The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus by Dallas Willard – $1.99
The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship by Dallas Willard – $1.99
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick – $2.99
Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black In Nazi Germany by Hans Massaquoi – $4.99
Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel – $2.99
Holocaust: A Jewish Survivor Testimony: The Truth of What Happened in Germany of World War 2 by Dan Myers – $2.99
The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius by George Remus – $3.99
Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life by Andrew Isenberg – $2.99
Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another – $8.99
Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life’s most elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality – $8.99
The Pastor’s Kid: What it’s Like and How to Help – $8.99
Help My Unbelief: Why doubt is not the enemy of faith – $8.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
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God Moves In A Mysterious Way
William Cowper (1731-1800) is one of the greatest Christian poets and hymn writers who has ever lived. He was also one of the most tortured, suffering from severe depression for the entirety of his adult life. (Here is a wonderful, brief biography of his life and work by my dad.) From the depths of his suffering and darkness he wrote magnificently of God’s sovereignty in his beautiful hymn, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way.” May these words calm our hearts in faith and expand our imaginations for what God is doing today.
God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform; he plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines, of never-failing skill; he fashions up his bright designs, and works his sovereign will.
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, the clouds that you much dread, are big with mercy and will break in blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust him for his grace; behind a frowning providence, he hides a smiling face.
His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour; the bud may have a bitter taste, but sweet will be the flower.
Blind unbelief is sure to err, and scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, and he will make it plain.
I originally wrote this post for my church, Immanuel Nashville , in our Daily Pulse email. If you want encouragement from God’s word delivered Monday thru Friday to your inbox, I encourage you to subscribe.
September 26, 2025
3 Things I Like – September 26
Each week (give or take one or two here and there) I share three things I like – It could be a book, a movie, a podcast, an album, a photo, an article, a restaurant, a food item, a beverage, or anything else I simply enjoy and think you might too. You can find a whole pile of things, especially books, I like and recommend HERE.
1) Swedish Fish
I remember distinctly when I was introduced to Swedish Fish. It was my freshman year of college by a newly minted friend named Pete. We were heading to a movie (or some such even where one smuggles in contraband refreshments) and he suggested Swedish Fish. I remember picturing in my mind some kind of actual fish–something akin to sardines or pre-packaged smoked salmon–and began to second guess my standards for friends. But when he served me a handful of these gummy, delicious, mild, vaguely fruity candies I was smitten. Since that day they have sat firmly as candy royalty in my heart and pantry. And it is only fittig I share this with you now because this weekend is my 20th vcollege Reunion, where I will see Pete. And because Swedish Fish are a delightful road trip candy and I will be driving several hours to said reunion.
2) The Cross of Christ by John Stott
Comparatively few books deserve the label of “classic.” Often such books are more old than good (you remember high school English class). The truest classics, though, are those that have proven timeless in their relevance, appeal, and influence of subsequent authors. The Cross of Christ is such a book. It’s not, in fact, all that old by literary standards, having released in 1986. (To be fair, I was released into the world in 1983, so I am obliged to consider this book not old.) In it’s four decades of life, it has become a theological staple, a bedrock work, in beautifully explaining the centrality of the Cross to all of Christianity and defending substitutionary atonement. It is deeply theological without being academically dense. It is clear and precise without being pedantic. And it exemplifies Stott’s singular ability to be utterly clear about the truest things with gentleness and dignity. The Cross of Christ is a book I thin every Christian would benefit form reading.
3) Amazing Grace performed by Ralph Stanley
John Newton’s hymn, Amazing Grace, transcends genre. I sang it in four part harmony with a pipe organ’s accompaniment in my childhood. I’ve sung it a capella around a campfire. It is a gospel music (and southern gospel music) staple. It is a lullaby for children and funeral send-off. I’ve heard it wailed by bag pipes and wailed on a Hammond B3 organ. And this magnificent, simple old rendition by Ralph Stanley is one of my favorites.
Kindle Deals for September 26
Why I Trust the Bible: Answers to Real Questions and Doubts People Have about the Bible by William Mounce – $2.99
Unbreakable: What the Son of God Said About the Word of God by Andrew Wilson – $2.99
Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ by Tim Keller – $5.99
Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen – $1.99
The Pastor: A Memoir by Eugene Peterson – $3.99
Gems from Tozer: Selections from the Writings of A.W. Tozer – $4.99
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green – $2.99
Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela – $3.99
The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H.W. Bush by John Sununu – $2.99
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn by Christopher Cox – $3.99
Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner – $2.99
President Carter: The White House Years by Stuart Eizenstat – $4.99
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn – $2.99
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Wyman – $3.99
I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny by Bob Newhart – $2.99
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J.Randy Taraborrelli – $2.99
Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another – $8.99
Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life’s most elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality – $8.99
The Pastor’s Kid: What it’s Like and How to Help – $8.99
Help My Unbelief: Why doubt is not the enemy of faith – $8.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
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September 25, 2025
Kindle Deals for September 25
Go Forward in Love: A Year of Daily Readings from Timothy Keller – $2.99
What It Means to Be Protestant: The Case for an Always-Reforming Church by Gavin Ortlund – $3.99
2084 and the AI Revolution, Updated and Expanded Edition: How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future by John C. Lennox – $5.99
The Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It’s Destructive, and How to Respond by Alisa Childers & Tim Barnett – $3.99
The Sacredness of Secular Work: 4 Ways Your Job Matters for Eternity (Even When You’re Not Sharing the Gospel) by Jordan Raynor – $5.99
Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive by Jordan Raynor – $1.99
James For You: Showing you how real faith looks in real life by Sam Allberry – $2.99
Life in the Wild: Fighting For Faith in a Fallen World by Dan DeWitt – $2.99
Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power—And How They Can Be Restored by Marcus Borg – $1.99
A Christian Reading Manifesto: A New Resurgence of Learning by David Steele – $2.99
Write It On Their Hearts: Practical Help for Discipling Your Kids by Chris Swain & Melissa Swain – $2.99
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt – $1.99
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman – $1.99
Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes by Jacques Ellul – $4.99
The Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt – $1.99
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder – $6.99
So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport – $2.99
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport – $2.99
Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden – $1.99
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick – $6.99
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede – $1.99
On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides – $1.99
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington – $1.99
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad – $1.99
The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- $1.99
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition – $1.99
Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another – $8.99
Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life’s most elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality – $8.99
The Pastor’s Kid: What it’s Like and How to Help – $8.99
Help My Unbelief: Why doubt is not the enemy of faith – $8.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
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September 24, 2025
Kindle Deals for September 24
Grounded in Grace: Helping Kids Build Their Identity in Christ by Jonathan Holmes – $3.99
Safe and Sound: Standing Firm in Spiritual Battles by David Powlison – $3.99
Finish Line: Dispelling Fear, Finding Peace, and Preparing for the End of Your Life by Robert Wolgemuth – $1.99
The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross by A.W. Pink – $3.99
Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges by Gregory Koukl – $1.99
Simply Christian: Step-by-Step Basics of Christian Faith and Practice by N.T. Wright – $1.99
The Hospitality of Need: How Depending on One Another Helps Us Heal and Grow Together by Kevan Chandler & Tommy Shelton – $4.99
Tracing God’s Story: An Introduction to Biblical Theology by Jon Nielson – $2.99
To Seek and to Save: Daily Reflections on the Road to the Cross by Sinclair Ferguson – $2.99
Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics by Michael Guillen – $2.99
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden – $4.99
If I Could Tell You Just One Thing . . .: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice by Richard Reed – $1.99
Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales – $3.99
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Josephine Riesman – $1.99
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace – $2.99
Glory Road by Bruce Catton – $2.99
Ride the Devil’s Herd: Wyatt Earp’s Epic Battle Against the West’s Biggest Outlaw Gang by John Boessenecker – $3.99
Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another – $8.99
Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life’s most elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality – $8.99
The Pastor’s Kid: What it’s Like and How to Help – $8.99
Help My Unbelief: Why doubt is not the enemy of faith – $8.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
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September 23, 2025
Kindle Deals for September 23
Finding Rest: A Survivor’s Guide to Navigating the Valleys of Anxiety, Faith, and Life by Jonathan Seidl – $2.99
Fear is a Liar: How to Stop Anxious Thoughts and Experience God’s Love by Daniel Lancaster – $2.99
Agents of Grace: How to Bridge Divides and Love as Jesus Loved by Daniel Darling – $1.99
Know the Creeds and Councils by Justin Holcomb – $1.99
Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They’re Missing Something by Brant Hansen – $1.99
Budgeting for a Healthy Church: Aligning Finances with Biblical Priorities for Ministry by Jamie Dunlop – $1.99
The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World by Peter Scazzero – $3.99
Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation by Peter Scazzero – $3.99
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein – $1.99
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski – $1.99
The Football 100 by The Athletic Staff – $3.99
NFL Century: The One-Hundred-Year Rise of America’s Greatest Sports League by Joe Horrigan – $6.99
The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness by Andy McCullough – $2.99
Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul Jabbar – $2.99
Brooks: The Biography of Brooks Robinson by Doug Wilson – $3.99
Pelé: My Story by Pele – $2.99
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown – $1.99
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre – $2.99
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre – $4.99
Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway by Walter Lord – $4.99
Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack by Tom Nagorski – $2.99
Desperate Journey: Escape from Burma in 1942, through 900 miles of arduous, Japanese-occupied territory by Francis Clifford – $3.99
Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another – $8.99
Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life’s most elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality – $8.99
The Pastor’s Kid: What it’s Like and How to Help – $8.99
Help My Unbelief: Why doubt is not the enemy of faith – $8.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
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September 22, 2025
Kindle Deals for September 22
Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson by D.A. Carson – $4.99
Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen – $1.99
Becoming C. S. Lewis: A Biography of Young Jack Lewis by Harry Lee Poe – $6.99
Theologians You Should Know: An Introduction: From the Apostolic Fathers to the 21st Century by Michael Reeves – $7.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World by Michael Horton – $1.99
Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in God’s Story by Michael Horton – $1.99
How to Talk about Jesus (Without Being That Guy): Personal Evangelism in a Skeptical World by Sam Chan – $1.99
Friend-ish: Reclaiming Real Friendship in a Culture of Confusion by Kelly Needham – $1.99
The Company We Keep: In Search of Biblical Friendship by Jonathan Holmes – $5.99
The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 – 1965 by William Manchester – $3.99
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin – $4.99
George Washington Carver by John Perry – $2.99
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant – $1.99
Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy’s Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by Richard Snow – $1.99
The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship’s Battle Against the Slave Trade by A.E. Rooks – $1.99
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants by Alison Maloney – $1.99
Belong: Loving Your Church by Reflecting Christ to One Another – $8.99
Hoping for Happiness: Turning Life’s most elusive Feeling into Lasting Reality – $8.99
The Pastor’s Kid: What it’s Like and How to Help – $8.99
Help My Unbelief: Why doubt is not the enemy of faith – $8.99
The Curious Christian: How Discovering Wonder Enriches Every Part of Life – $4.99
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