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Should Christians Save for Retirement?
Randy Alcorn asks some good questions: “Is this reasonable planning, exercising foresight as Proverbs commends? Or is it an alternative to trusting God, a backup in case God doesn’t come through? How is maintaining a generous retirement plan fundamentally different from the rich fool storing up for his later years to live out his life in comfort and security?”
Emotions Are a Language
Writing specifically for counselors, Ed Welch says to “Think of emotions as a language. They say something—something very important—and part of our job is to figure out what they are saying.”
John Piper’s Prayer
“Last Sunday morning, at around 11:30, an entire family entered heaven together. Jamison and Kathryne Pals and their small children were driving from Minneapolis to Colorado for final preparations as missionaries to Japan. … Tragically, the entire family died at the scene, including Jamison and Kathryne, both 29, and their three young children, 3-year-old Ezra, 23-month-old Violet, and 2-month-old Calvin. … John Piper was asked to deliver the pastoral prayer. Here’s what he said.”
Pedophilia as a Sexual Orientation
Denny Burk writes about a new book that seems to be part of a new movement to normalize pedophilia. It does this by considering it a sexual orientation.
Are We Reaching the End of World Records?
This question is asked around the time of every…single…Olympics. And somehow records continue to fall.
Throwing Sheep Into a Pit
Yes! An Egyptian visitor was expressing something like this to me at church yesterday: “We don’t rest to maximize our productivity later. We rest to remember that our worth does not hinge on our productivity.”
The Bible Is Not Boring
Ryan Higginbottom: “If God’s word seems boring, there’s either a problem with the reading or the reader.”
Flashback: The Book Glutton
Here is some counsel I offered on libraries, book collections, and book gluttons.
If God gave you the whole world, but did not give Himself, that would not be enough. He is more than all the world to His people.
—Colin Smith
