By Grace Alone is a great book by Sinclair Ferguson. It’s on sale for $5 today through Ligonier Ministries, if you don’t have it, this is a great deal.
In By Grace Alone: How the Grace of God Amazes Me, Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson laments that “we have lost the joy and energy that is experienced when grace seems truly ‘amazing.’” In an effort to restore the wonder of divine grace, he reflects on it from seven angles, each built around a stanza from a rich but little-known hymn, “O How the Grace of God Amazes Me,” written by Emmanuel T. Sibomana, a pastor in the African nation of Burundi.
Everything you might want to know about the great day of baseball turned in by the South Carolina Gamecocks in the CWS yesterday.
Montgomery acknowledged he felt “some pressure” about starting USC’s second elimination game of the day, as the Gamecocks were trying to become just the third team ever – and first since that baseball powerhouse Holy Cross in 1952 – to win two games in the same day in the College World Series. They did it. A team hadn’t even played two full games in one day at the World Series since 1980.
Lebron James reads to help himself relax and focus before a game.
James, who went from high school straight into the National Basketball Association, bypassing college, was seen before and even after games reading one book after another, one genre after another.
There was “The Hunger Games,” and the other books in the science fiction trilogy by Suzanne Collins. There were, according to ESPN, books on history, biographies, psychology and more.
Tim Challies shared this video earlier this week from Mark Dever on how to create a culture of reading within your church.
