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  • Book Conversations: Ecclesiastes -Joy at the End of the Tether

    Book Conversations: Ecclesiastes -Joy at the End of the Tether

    A carton of spilled milk and a banana peel adorn the mirthful cover of Joy at the End of the Tether, a delightful read which unpacks “the inscrutable wisdom of Ecclesiastes” in a way that will forever change how you live “under the sun”. In this video segment, Pastor Douglas Wilson discusses the book and the core lessons we can draw from Ecclesiastes. View the video (3:39)

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  • Wipe Your Feet

    Wipe Your Feet

    In Chapter 1 of My Life for Yours: A Walk Through the Christian Home, Douglas Wilson writes about the front porch and the door of the home. CanonWired asked Pastor Wilson to expound upon this theme in this short video clip (1:52): Watch the video

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  • Three Great Chords and Eighteen Great Albums

    Three Great Chords and Eighteen Great Albums

    Douglas Wilson on Music and Propriety: “Rejection of a particular kind of music for worship is not the same thing as a rejection of that kind of music. I like jazz, I like rock and roll, some of it, I like classical, I like the blues, and I love the psalms. Now given this hash of musical interests and appreciations, you would think that I would be arguing that we should employ all of it in the worship of God.

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  • Book Spotlight: How To Be Free From Bitterness

    Book Spotlight: How To Be Free From Bitterness

    How to Be Free From Bitterness - a short book with a poignant cover that has ministered to people across the globe. Doug Wilson explains the unusual story of how this book came to be. &nbsp

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  • The Story Behind Future Men

    The Story Behind Future Men

    In this 2-minute interview clip, Doug Wilson explains his thinking and motivation behind writing Future Men Watch

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  • Can Christ Lose a Christian?

    Can Christ Lose a Christian?

    An excerpt from Douglas Wilson’s Easy Chairs, Hard Words: Conversations on the Liberty of God: “Do you mind if we go over something again? I think we need to talk a little more about whether we can lose our salvation.” Martin laughed. “Sure. But there would be a lot more peace in the church if Christians learned to frame such questions more biblically.” “How do you mean?” “When the question is posed as to whether a Christian can lose his

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  • Two-year-olds & Whiskey

    Two-year-olds & Whiskey

    Douglas Wilson on the need of the hour in Mother Kirk: Modern evangelicals in our culture have gotten money, power, and influence, and it has been like giving whiskey to a two-year-old. But the need of the hour is theological, not political. The arena is the pulpit and the table, not the legislative chamber.

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  • The Taste of Sabbath

    The Taste of Sabbath

    Canon Press recently released The Taste of Sabbath: How to Delight in God’s Rest by Stuart Bryan. In the introduction to the book, Pastor Bryan reflects on the roots of the book, including an interesting “Filling up the Corners” chat with his congregation: “Every Sunday our congregation hosts a question and answer session following the service. We affectionately call it “Filling up the Corners” after an incident in Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring. Bilbo invites his friends and relations to

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  • Wise Words

    Wise Words

    Story 3: The Bleeding Tree “Once upon a time, an oak tree stood on a hill overlooking a quiet valley. The tree was tall for his age and very strong. His long branches spread in every direction, and his leaves sparkled like emeralds in the sunlight. Where his branches met his thick trunk, robins and gray squirrels built their nests. On the other side of the valley was a temple of unearthly beauty. It was so wondrous a temple that the tree often doubted that

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  • Giants, Dragons & Books

    Giants, Dragons & Books

    Douglas Wilson on boys and books in Future Men (Chapter 12): In C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, we are given a good example of a boy who was brought up poorly. Eustace Scrubb had stumbled into a dragon’s lair, but he did not know what kind of place it was. “Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon’s lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about

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  • Is Christianity Good for the World/Collision

    Is Christianity Good for the World A debate between Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson Foreword by Jonah Goldberg, author of Liberal Fascism Put two contrarians together and shake well. —Christianity Today The gloves come off in this electric exchange, originally hosted by Christianity Today, as leading atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of God Is Not Great) and Christian apologist Douglas Wilson (author of Letter from a Christian Citizen) go head-to-head on this divisive question. The result is entertaining and provocative—a glimpse into the ongoing debate.

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  • Joy at the End of the Tether: The Inscrutable Wisdom of Ecclesiastes

    In this lively reading of Ecclesiastes, Doug Wilson reveals its powerful lessons of vanity, joy, celebration, and the sovereignty of God. This is a great book, in fact it was Doug’s favorite to write. “Most Christians view the book of Ecclesiastes as an enigma, a puzzle from which we might draw a few aphorisms but little else. Douglas Wilson’s fresh, lucid treatment of this wonderful book enables us to see that its message is not a confused riddle but an

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  • Heaven Misplaced

    Heaven Misplaced

    Thoughts from the author: J.R.R. Tolkien was once asked whether he believed that Middle Earth was real. His reply was, “One hopes.” Even a work of fiction, if it is compelling enough, can awaken a deep desire for it to have been true. So here is my proposal. There are many Christians who believe that the future of our world (prior to the Second Coming) is bleak indeed. I am asking them to read this little book as though it

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  • Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great: Makers of History Written by Jacob Abbott—updated for younger readers! Foreword by Ben House Read a sample or purchase at our Resource Store. Alexander the Great is part of Makers of History, a 19th century biography series by two brothers—Jacob and John S.C. Abbott. Reprinted by Canon Press, these biographies have been edited and brought up-to-date for readers twelve and up. Not only are these editions given vintage style paperback covers, but they also include introductions that explain

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