The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment

Tim Challies, Christian blogger extraordinaire, has his first book out. I ordered it excitedly the moment he announced it was available at Monergism.com. As I was putting the kids down for a nap today I heard a peculiar thud on the porch, I was expecting a couple packages but was quite happy to find that this was the one that arrived. I plan on digging in over the next few days. Yay for new books!




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