I’d like to remind you that my new book and documentary From the Rising of the Sun will release next week. If you buy the book, you get the 12-part documentary included. It would mean a lot if you’d pre-order it today!
If you’ve been looking for a topical study or to work your way through a book of the Bible, you won’t do much better than today’s Kindle deals.
(Yesterday on the blog: In My Father’s School Are Many Classrooms)
Wisdom for Newlyweds
Here is some commonsense wisdom for newlyweds (or not-so-newly-weds I suppose). “The first few years of marriage are a time of adjustment and discovery as two people get to know each other on an everyday basis and learn each other’s strengths and foibles. In my counseling work with young married couples, here are four recommendations I have offered.”
What Christians Get Wrong About the Mark of the Beast (Video)
I appreciate Adriel Sanchez’s willingness to take on tough questions like this: What is the mark of the beast?
Reading the Bible for the Ten Thousandth Time
It can pose a challenge to read the Bible for the hundredth or thousandth time. Ryan offers some ways to continue to benefit from repeated readings.
Beware the New Notebook Energy
This one is written specifically for those who are beginning a new school year but it pertains to the rest of us as well. “I’ve known for years that I tend to start well and finish poorly, or not at all. Maybe that sounds familiar to you. A new planner gives me an avenue to blame my lack of follow-through on a bad system. If I can blame the system, that saves me from the day-in and day-out-ness of life. I call this New Notebook Energy: fleeing actual responsibility and good habits in favor of reorganizing and starting again.”
When Evil Comes for Children, Where Is the Light?
“Last month, a horrible abuse story broke in my state, Alabama. It involved children, a bunker, and sex trafficking. I can’t tell you any more than that because I couldn’t bring myself to click on the reports. I fear that if I look head-on at such suffering inflicted on helpless children, the weight of that evil would crush me.” I responded in the same way.
10 Uncomfortable Truths About Christian Sexual Ethics
“What the Bible has to say about sexual ethics is perhaps the most off-putting aspect of the Christian faith in today’s world. What makes a Christian sexual ethic so increasingly unpalatable is that it confronts and undermines core values in Western culture: autonomous identity, freedom, equality, authenticity.” Here are some key truths about Christian sexual ethics.
Flashback: Unexpected, Unwanted, and Unwelcome
…we can have complete confidence that the One who invited us is waiting to receive us—that he who was welcomed to the side of his Father will most certainly welcome us in the same way.
To become slow to anger is to become like God.
—David Powlison
