There’s another great collection of Kindle deals today. Be sure to consider Tripp and Lane’s Relationships: A Mess Worth Making. There are also books on holiness, productivity, church history, wokeism, and much else.
I was delighted to see From the Rising of the Sun be featured (and heavily discounetd) by Westminster Books.
Hoping for the Best
Tessa Lind explains why hoping for the best is not a good strategy for property maintenance or for battling sin. “I saw the problem, and I chose to do nothing about it. I wasn’t willing to pay the price. I wasn’t willing to take the appropriate steps to prevent the catastrophe. Now, I’m paying the price, which is now two arms and two legs. Double the ouch.”
Teach Them Friendship
“A significant amount of chatter has occupied social media about masculinity, manhood, and why men, both young and old, seem to shy away from these concepts. And just like the platforms from which these discussions arose, there are as many answers offered as are problems identified. Prudence demands narrowing one’s conclusion on such a broad topic and making sure your judgments are sober minded. And yet some solutions offered strike me as a kind of mirrored recklessness.”
Why Do We Sing in Church? 5 Reasons
Why do we sing? Why do Christians, especially as we gather on Sundays for corporate worship, join our voices together and sing to God? Here are five reasons. (Sponsored)
Questions Every Pastor on Social Media Should Ask Themselves
Adriel Sanchez offers some really good questions that pastors should ask themselves (if they use social media). “If we use social media to harp on issues outside of our purview, we might find that we lose opportunities to minister to people because they feel ostracized. Not everyone in your church is going to agree with you about matters of Christian liberty or the economy or immigration. When we pontificate about those things, it sends a confusing message. We have to be careful to balance and distinguish between our personal voice and our pastoral authority.
Adriel Sanchez offers some really good questions that pastors should ask themselves (if they use social media). “
Working With Faithfulness When Our Bodies Are Weak
Glenna Marshall tells how to work with faithfulness when one’s body is weak.
Grave New World: Artificial Intelligence, Electric Shepherds, and Electric Sheep
I hear there is a lot of this happening. “Several weeks ago, a sermon by Paul Washer appeared on my YouTube feed titled ‘Sins that Husbands and Wives Commit Daily.’ Now, for anyone who is familiar with Paul Washer, this seems like the type of sermon he very well may preach—and so, I thought little of it and simply kept scrolling. However, it was only a few days later that another sermon graced my suggestion feed on YouTube, this one supposedly by John MacArthur. And the title of the sermon? You guessed it: ‘Sins that Husbands and Wives Commit Daily.’”
A Biblical Message for Children of Aging Parents
There is lots of good counsel here for children who are caring for aging parents.
Flashback: The Best Day You’ve Ever Had
The pleasures of this present world are pleasurable indeed. But the greatest of them must pale in comparison to the least pleasures of the world to come.
If God puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is what we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.
—Maltbie Davenport Babcock
