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On Saturday evening, November 21st, you are invited to discuss a book about the Ten Commandments called The 10 Commandments by Kevin DeYoung. This is part of our ongoing Church Reads series. This fall is our last edition of the year. Here are 10 Reasons why you should take the challenge to do this last Church Reads of the year: 10. Because it’ll give you something to talk about at Thanksgiving. 9....

Why You Should Read Praying the Bible by Don Whitney This book was one of the first books I was ever given as a new Christian. I didn’t grow up going to church, so when I became a Christian, my prayer life was pretty simple. Honestly, the only prayer I really knew was how to thank God for the food in front of me. I knew I was supposed to pray, but I didn’t really know how to pray beyond the few th...

A few years back, a well-known middle-aged pastor in D.C. got up in front of his congregation not in his usual Sunday robe but in a nice t-shirt that said “Selah.” He was making a point similar to what Bilbo Baggins did at his eleventy-first birthday party in the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring—he was leaving. Indeed, like the book of Psalms, the reverend was inserting a deliberate pause i...