Christianity.com en-us Thursday, May 24, 2012 Thursday, May 24, 2012 rss.aspx support@Christianity.com support@Christianity.com http://www.christianity.com/blogs/challies/ http://www.christianity.com/blogs/challies/11670932/ Jeremiah Burrough’s The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment is one of the most important and personally-impactful Puritan works I’ve ever read. Let me give you just a taste of what Burroughs has to say about contentment. Mon, 21 May 2012 06:25:59 GMT 11670932 Tim Challies http://www.christianity.com/blogs/challies/11670668/ One of the more interesting sections of dialog in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress has Christian and Hopeful discussing the danger of backsliding, of falling away from what had the appearance of spiritual life and growth. Tue, 15 May 2012 08:42:49 GMT 11670668 Tim Challies http://www.christianity.com/blogs/challies/11670297/ Is my gospel big enough to account for a man who three times denied that he knew the Lord? Is it big enough to account for a man who spent all of those years with Jesus, only to desert him in the end? Is it big enough to allow a man like this to be a leader in the church? Tue, 08 May 2012 08:18:56 GMT 11670297 Tim Challies http://www.christianity.com/blogs/challies/11669493/ I don’t mean to be a curmudgeon and I don’t mean to be insensitive, truly. Colson may not have set out to do this and he may not even have understood that he was doing this, but it remains a fact that there are two prominent and public testaments to his willingness to tamper with the purity of the gospel… (Read more) Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:27:33 GMT 11669493 Tim Challies http://www.christianity.com/blogs/challies/11668046/ Today is the 224th anniversary of the death of Charles Wesley, one of history’s most well-known and best-loved hymn writers. Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:55:46 GMT 11668046 Tim Challies