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Today's Meditation
Daily readings: Psalm 119:81-96, 2 Samuel 14, Colossians 1:9-14
Today's meditation from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening or Daily Light on the Daily Path
New Early Church Fathers DVD
The CCEL is pleased to announce a new product: The Early Church Fathers. This DVD is comprised of thirty-seven volumes of the most important writings of the first 500 years of the church, as well as a copy of New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible.
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What We're Reading
In this section we hope to highlight a good book that one of the CCEL staff or someone else is reading.
by Pam Plantinga
The Practice of the Presence of God is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It is a series of conversations with and letters from Brother Lawrence, a lay brother among the Carmelites in the 17th century. Brother Lawrence lived with a consuming love for God and a desire to do all for Him, and his words are a great encouragement to us to do the same.
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What's New
2009-08-21: Added Paradise Lost, by John Milton
2009-08-21: Added Treatise on Grace, by Jonathan Edwards
2009-08-20: Added The Backslider in Heart, by Charles Finney