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Give the Little Ones Clean Water
1.1 billion people don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water. That’s 1 in 6 people alive today.
Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation causes 80% of all sickness and disease, and kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Many people in the developing world, usually women and children, walk more than three hours every day to fetch water that is likely to make them sick. (source)
Jesus said, “Whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward” (Matt. 10:42). These folks don’t have clean water, much less cold water.
What can we do? Going ove…
The Importance of News
Tyler's post on news got me thinking about how to determine what kind of news is important. We live in an odd time — we have access to incalculable amounts of information with a few clicks of a mouse. This has led, at least for me, to internet information binges where I come out with a dazed confusion as to what exactly I’d been doing the last two hours. Being informed, I guess.
C.S. Lewis was not one to spend most of his time reading news. He said:
The most unliterary reader of all sticks to “the news.” He reads daily, with unwearied relish, how, in some place he has never seen, under circumstances which never become quite clear, someone he doesn’t know has married, resc…
New DG Search
Our site search results just got better. We replaced our search engine software with Google, which means we get our custom tabbed interface combined with Google's search accuracy. We were even able to add new features like spelling suggestion, audio/video options for resources, and add to cart buttons for products.
Here are a few example searches:
We hope this will serve you better when searching our site. As always, please let us know your suggestions!
Jonathan Edwards Sale
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was born 304 years ago today (Oct. 5). In celebration, we've discounted our Edwards-related products by 30% through Sunday, Oct. 7:
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The Works of Jonathan Edwards (2-Volume Hardcover Set)
Regular Price: $54.00
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God's Passion for His Glory (Softcover Book)
Regular Price: $11.00
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A God Entranced Vision of All Things (Softcover Book)
Regular Price: $8.60
Sale Price: $6.00 -
A God-Entranced Vision of All Things (Conference Audio CD Set)
Regular Price: $30.00
Sale Price: $21.00 -
A God-Entranced Vision of All Things (Conference MP3 Audio CD)
Regular Price: $12.00
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Free Audiobook of The Life of David Brainerd
Christianaudio.com is offering a free audiobook download of The Life of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards for the month of October. (October 5th is Edwards' birthday.) Something tells me this might be of interest to some of our readers...
(via A-Team)
New Download Functionality
We've made downloading our resources even easier. When browsing the Resource Library, you can download a message's audio or video by clicking "download" without having to start streaming the media. This has been a popular request, and we're happy to provide it.
(For an example, see the 2006 Sermons.)
On Reading
Christians are people of the book: God purposely chose the medium of typography to deliver his revelation to us. In that book, we are commanded to love God with our hearts and our minds (Matthew 22:34-40). This gives Christians a clear command to use their intellects — to be, in other words, a kind of intellectual.
Reading is one of the best ways to develop our minds. It can help us to know God and ourselves, gain vicarious experience, increase our perception and imagination, train our minds to think critically and logically, and teach us self-discipline. (For more on this, see Neil Postman's excellent Amusing Ourselves to Death.)
But we have a problem: our culture is becoming alitera…
