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Tim Challies

Tim Challies Signs New Book Contract

December 9, 2009

Blogging legend Tim Challies has just announced he is writing his second book. It will be published by Zondervan in 2011:
The book’s working title is The Next Story. I’m really pleased with the title, but it does have a downside in that it is remarkably difficult to pronounce (try saying it out loud). It is [...]

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10 Million Words – Has Tim Challies Bitten Off More Than Even He Can Chew?

November 7, 2009

Tim Challies has started a new blog over at the Gospel Coalition. He calls it 10 Million Words. His goal? To review from a Christian perspective every book that appears on the New York Times bestselling non-fiction books list in 2010. To warm up, he has started doing some already. The guy [...]

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Spiritual Gifts – That’s It From Me, But More From Others

June 12, 2009

If my series on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which is now finished, has left you wanting to know more, then I encourage you to listen to three talks from my friend, Joel Virgo. Joel leads the Brighton Newfrontiers church, CCK. His first talk speaks about something I have blogged about previously, apostles today. [...]

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Blog Tour – Day 4: Tim Challies Answers Questions Concerning Discernment

January 10, 2008

Although I am on a blog holiday at the moment, it gives me great pleasure to welcome my friend and newly published author, Tim Challies, to the blog for the next portion of his blog tour. Today he will answer a question submitted by another blogger.
As I discuss spiritual discernment with other people, one of [...]

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Discernment: Coming Soon to a Blog Near You!

January 4, 2008

I just received the following announcement in my e-mail about a blogging tour that Tim Challies will be taking next week. I have previously highlighted Tim’s book here on my sidebar, and in my review of it, in which I said:
“Tim Challies takes us from the turbulent marketplace of ideas that is the modern western [...]

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Applying Discernment – Far From Simple

October 30, 2007

If there is one thing that the discernment debate between the Pyromaniacs and myself has confirmed these past few days, it is surely that discernment is far from easy!! It’s a good thing Tim Challies has written a book on it. I really like the following extract from his book, which I think totally sums [...]

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Blogging, Discernment, and a Book by Tim Challies

October 25, 2007

UPDATE—February 19, 2008In January 2008, the following post was identified as the 2nd all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 3rd most-read post was “The ESV: A Bible Translation for Everyone?“
This post was an expression of some of my own concerns and frustrations about the blogging world I have come to love [...]

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Mrs. Challies Says, "I’m No Blog Widow!"

August 27, 2007

Few readers of Christian blogs will have failed to come across Tim Challies, the uberblogger who will shortly become a Crossway-published book author. In fact, I’m almost willing to bet that no one will first hear of Tim’s blog through this post. If I’m wrong, do leave a comment to that effect and/or drop me [...]

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Blogging – Raising Issues for the Church to Think About

May 15, 2007

Tim Challies has started a series stemming from the seminar he lead at the Basics Conference last week in Cleveland. He has some interesting facts and insights into the medium of blogging and the world we know as the blogosphere. He starts off with these comments:
“I . . .found that there was a lot that [...]

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Highlights of Challies Seminar at the Basics Conference

May 8, 2007

Here are some key thoughts from the seminar Tim is giving at the Basics Conference, currently ongoing at Alistair Begg’s church in Cleveland, Ohio. (HT Russell Smith)Tim begins his seminar by describing the way blogs communicate:

Blogs are a more PERSONAL means of communication. The tone is informal and conversational, as opposed to books and magazines, [...]

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A Cessationist Healing?

April 30, 2007

This is a short excerpt from a quote on Challies Dot Com which Tim says is entirely consistent with a cessationist perspective. It sure doesn’t sound like the cessationism I love to caricaturise!
“. . . My friend knelt down in the middle of a circle of elders. We anointed him with oil, laid lands on [...]

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The Power of the Pen, the Blogger’s Keyboard, and the Way I Write

July 20, 2006

As you can see, I’ve been adding a few pictures to my sidebar in an attempt to make it look less cluttered – sorry if you noticed the mess as I moved the furniture around in here!
The pen has always been the tool of the writer. So, here is a picture of a pen in [...]

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Tim Challies Reflects on T4G

May 1, 2006

Tim says: “Speaking personally, while I am not a pastor and thus was not the primary audience for this conference, I left Louisville deeply challenged. As Paul can attest, the conference gave me much to think and talk about. The Spirit moved this weekend to convict me of sin in my life and to challenge [...]

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Challies on emotion in worship

March 27, 2006

Challies had better watch it – he is almost sounding like a charismatic!
“True worship relies on both feeling and understanding, or as Jesus said, on spirit and truth. Worship that is devoid of feeling and emotion will be dead worship, for the God we serve is worthy of feelings that express His worth. [...]

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