Tim Challies

It's a glorious day, and I hope that you are enjoying it.

Let's end our hour with a kind of a provocative blog post written by Tim Challies at Challies.com about worship music.

And I want you to wrestle with what he says.

Tim Challies writes, and it's a long article, so I'm not going to read the whole thing.

I'll give you bits and pieces of it.

But Tim Challies writes, why my church does not sing songs by Bethel, Elevation, and Hillsong.

Why we don't sing songs by Bethel, Elevation, and Hillsong.

He talks about, he proposed to his church that we just cut out.

So yeah, And, you know, part of being fussy and choosing to read a book is making sure that you're actually reading a book written by a human being.

So, Tim Challies has an article out recently about how when you go to Amazon and search for, you know, some sort of Christian theology item, you're going to find tons of books and actually...

Turns out that a good number of them are not even written by a human being, but by AI.

So do a little diligence to make sure that you're actually reading something created by a human mind.

This book is endorsed.

by Albert Moeller, Tim Challies, Marty Makowski, and like 14 more pages.

Wayne Mack, Jeff Dalrymple, Daniel Darling, Kevin McKay, and so on and so forth.

I first came across your work.

And, you know, just some choices made here.

So Tim Challies writes about this Narnia among the death works.

And there's this concept that I was

unaware of, this concept of death

It may be her tribute, not to Lewis and the story he told, but to the one she wishes for instead.

It may just be a death work, a work of art that defiles what is sacred to an old world and remakes it in the image of a new one.

That's Tim Challies looking towards what's coming, the story of Aslan and Narnia.

I think it's going to be really interesting.

Um, and accompanied by the age of anxiety was like, "Oh, can I trust that?" To what happens when, um, I'll just give you this example.

Tim Challies wrote, uh, he's the blogger, Christian author, wrote a blog post, I read it this morning, um, saying that, and Christian, you know, and I was interested in this 'cause a Christian author, you know, increasingly Christian authors are getting emails from people who are using AI, they're scammers, imposters, pretending to be people from publishing firms, pr- pretending to be readers.

They're writing fake articles.

Now, all of a sudden, you know, I'm thinking, you know, we obviously get emails here to Red Church, um, people have read books and they wanna reach out or whatever.

And the second he leaves, you pull out your phone and you begin to scroll social media.

I think Tim Challies says, your boss may be fooled, but God is not.

And we are to render good service to them, Paul says, from the heart.

Meaning we're not faking that.

You nag about this, your employees, your coworkers.

You're doing what the world does.

I like what Tim Challies says.

When you claim to be a Christian, but you deliver poor quality work laced with grumbling and complaining you make the gospel look bad as if it isn't transformative as if it really hasn't changed you from the inside out and i think this is really important to think through that going back to you know separate passage but paul says in second thessalonians that we are to rejoice always and in everything to give thanks And I think sometimes people, if they're in maybe a spot they don't love, right? I mean, that to be fair, like, hey, I've had jobs that are hard, right? Like I've had days that are hard, right? And a job that I love.

But before you do, weigh all of these issues.

Here's something I recall Tim Challies recommending before you leave church.

I think it's called Breeze.

That's an online thing that churches have where you can put up your picture and your name, contact information, so that we can familiarize ourselves with one another.

All right, let's end the hour here.

Tim Challies over at Challies.com wrote, God didn't write a book.

God didn't write a book.

What's he talking about? He says the Bible is a book.

The Bible, though, the Bible.

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remain forever such good word there as we close out this hour such a good word there from our man tim challies why you'll hear this people lamenting the fact that other people read the bible on their phones that people read their bibles you know on their computers

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