Christian Focus Across the Web highlights important news and blog posts related to our books. This week’s highlights are below:
"Not only would this be a highly beneficial resource for anyone preaching the word of God it is also helpful for anyone who needs to understand how scripture uniquely empowers and directs. This would help in not only corporate decision making, but individual and familial as well."
Matthew's full review is available on his The Truth Will Set You Free blog.
"I’m still enjoying and benefitting from Alec Motyer’s Isaiah Day by Day, a devotional commentary on Isaiah published by Christian Focus and using Motyer’s own translation of Isaiah with loads of annotations. It’s brilliant.I was really struck this morning with his Thought for the Day on Isaiah 13:1-22, an oracle against Babylon. It is such a concise statement that says so much about the purpose and nature of Old Testament prophecy and with such evangelistic zeal."
The full blog post can be found on John's Cutting It Straight blog.
"John Newton, the blasphemous slave-trader turned tenderhearted pastor, knew what it was like to live in a state of constant interruption:I have seldom one-hour free from interruption. Letters, that must be answered, visitants that must be received, business that must be attended to. I have a good many sheep and lambs to look after, sick and afflicted souls dear to the Lord; and therefore, whatever stands still, these must not be neglected.
And he also knew that interruptions are not threats to peace but opportunities for ministry:
When I hear a knock at my study door, I hear a message from God. It may be a lesson of instruction; perhaps a lesson of patience: but, since it is his message, it must be interesting.
Quoted in Richard Cecil, John Newton, ed. by Marylynn Rousse (Christian Focus, 2000), p. 139 (first quote), p. 76 (second quote)."