All has been well, and your life has been good. It has been easy to love God and trust him, to pray to him and sing his praises. But then suddenly you are struck by a great trial or a deep sorrow, and for a time it can be difficult to adjust. Here are truths to preach to your sorrows.
Some marriage advice: just shut up / How to be happy at work / Is Jesus the social justice champion of progressives? / Get a grip: ‘Claude’ isn’t a person / Why Christians should not buy into AI catastrophism / Don’t suppress young men / and more.
These are Prime Big Deal Days at Amazon. This page is a roundup of some of the best deals I’ve been able to track down. Check in a couple of times on Tuesday and Wednesday as I’ll be adding deals as I find them.
When you’re not sorry / What is her body for? / Is AI the new Covid? / On dying well / Why translation must have fingerprints / When friends turn against you / Kindle deals / Prime Big Deals
Ed Sheeran’s is in a heap of trouble. His shift from neutrality to attempting to mollify both sides has done little to rescue him from the mob. To understand why, I have been helped by Carl Trueman.
What I’ve learned in the cancer school of wisdom / 10 Things you should know about heaven / There is no secular remedy to rape culture / How to talk to strangers / Why surrogacy can’t be redeemed / Kindle deals
Works & Wonders: Eclipse Chasing, Gilded Mansions, Other Windows, The Risen Conqueror, Astronomy Photography, Ask and Expect
If my kids get into America’s top colleges, I hope they don’t go / Why Americans stopped throwing dinner parties / The Botkin sisters apologize / The case against video preaching / Reader recommendations
Free Stuff Fridays: Win a copy of Why Christianity Makes Sense!
A year’s worth of complete worship liturgies—calls to worship, confessions, benedictions, and full services. They are free to use or adapt, with no attribution needed.
What fills your mind? / Where have all the funerals gone? / Remote work and sexual temptation / Caring for a woman in an abusive relationship / Invade or retreat from politics? / Kindle deals / Logos deals / Funnies
‘I’m thankful I almost drowned’ / What to do instead of killing your wife / When urgent cries are met with silence / Give up your ladders to nowhere / Your marriage needs a thesaurus / Kindle deals
September is fading into October, but before the month becomes a distant memory, I’d like to tell you about some of the new books that it brought our way. Here is a selection of new and notable titles that I hope will be of interest to you.
Is it worth going to church when I can’t even be in the service? / The Americans having the most sex / Reflections on Steve Lawson’s latest book / Entering middle age / Why does life seem to move faster as we get older? / 12 Reasons to go to church on rainy Sundays /…
Deep in the human heart, there is an ache—an ache for transcendence, for love, for justice, for happiness. It might be the deepest reality in the human heart. Yet despite this, we tend not to think about it as much as we ought. Why is this?
Will we remember and recognize one another in heaven? / Ten truths to cling to in your fight against sin / How AI is shaping teenagers and their spiritual lives / We cannot be sanctified through a checklist / How to fight lust / The joy of holiness / New books / and more.
A few years ago, I proposed to my fellow elders at Grace Fellowship Church that we stop singing songs by Hillsong. After some clarifying discussion, we agreed that we would not. The same reasoning applies to Elevation and Bethel. Here’s an explanation.
I thought I knew how to parent / Looksmaxxing is a crisis of modern masculinity / Never quit because it is hard / God will use your most painful suffering for great good / Advice to our younger selves on our wedding day / For those who lost so much / Kindle deals / and…
Works & Wonders: Small World, Voices, BingeBrowse, The Bayeux Tapestry Story, One Bedroom Apartment, Earth Music Theater, and a Sunday Devotional
The IVF industry doesn’t want you to ask questions / What worship will God not accept? / Why Arab armies don’t win wars / A conclusion in search of evidence / The MLB team upending batting orders / The Pangram backlash / Reader recommendations / and more.
Free Stuff Fridays: Win one of five copies of Shepherding Time!
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