Tim Challies

My brethren and sisters have really been busy the past few days with a good number of posts!

# The Passion of Reformation: Our Great Salvation… Chosen by God; Sanctified by the Spirit; Redeemed by the Son by Steve Camp.

# With many of our brethren and sisters poised to vote for the next President of the United States soon, Dr. R.C. Sproul gives us some food of thought with Principles for Voting.

# Tim Challies reviewed Michael Horton’s book Christless Christianity, and it sure looks like it’s a must-read! Here’s his conclusion:

This book is a call for the church to return to its biblical foundations and to remain true to those convictions. It is a clarion call and one that Christians would do well to heed. Christless Christianity is an excellent and timely book and one I would not hesitate to recommend to any Christian.

# My good brother and friend Daniel recently bought himself a molehill of books and has done reviews of two that he’s read so far — Logical Criticism of Textual Criticism by Gordon H. Clark and The Market Driven Church by Udo W. Middelmann.

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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. (Source)

Personally, I use Twitter to update my friends and acquaintances on the going-ons in my life. Since some events simply just don’t warrant a blog post or even an email to said persons, tools like Twitter and even Plurk are perfect for doing so. Besides, it’s easy to know what your friends are up to since you can easily “follow” them on their Twitter (yes, stalking has gone digital. I kid! I kid!).

In fact, Twitter has become so pervasive that some ministries now have their own Twitter presence! Ligonier Ministries (R.C. Sproul) just got on, and I also discovered that John Piper’s Desiring God is there too, along with Mark Driscoll.

For those who enjoy his blog and book reviews, you can “follow” Tim Challies of Challies.com on Twitter too.

And, last but not least, if you would like a daily verse with your Twitter feed, you can choose to “follow” the ESV Bible’s daily verse tweets.

If you have a Twitter account, consider adding them to your feed, and if you like, stalk “follow” me on mine as well.

I love reading testimonies, and in recent days I’ve come across this by Richard Ganz that I want to share with you. It was first posted by Tim Challies over at his blog, Challies.com.

The Revival Of A Rebel Jew

by Richard Ganz
First published at Challies.com, reproduced in part.

In my youth I spent every afternoon studying the Hebrew Scriptures, five days a week, and on Friday night and Saturday I worshiped. As I grew older I worshiped for a time each day in the synagogue morning and evening. I would rise before dawn and before going to the morning service, in obedience to rabbinic tradition, I would put on tefillin — the boxes containing God’s law — on my forehead and arm.

Then one cold, clear midwinter night my life was shattered. My father had a heart attack and I ran for comfort and hope to the one place I thought I would find it — the synagogue. The doors were locked and as I hammered on them I looked up into the New York night sky, cold, crystal-clear and filled with stars and I cursed God. “I am through with you!” I said. But that night, as I turned away from the God of Israel; the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, little did I realize that he was far from through with me.

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