Logos users may be interested to know that my “Challies Recommends” commentary bundle is on sale this week. You should be able to find it right here.
Today’s Kindle deals include Alistair Begg’s excellent Brave by Faith along with David Mathis’ Rich Wounds and a few other good picks.
(Yesterday on the blog: When Should You Stop Praying?)
Every Good Parent Will Have Regrets: Advice to My 30-Year-Old Self
Dave Harvey offers some parenting advice to his younger self—advice that may be helpful to you if you’re still in that stage of life.
Outrage Is Not a Fruit of the Spirit
Randy Alcorn: “We desperately need the Lord to do a transforming work in all of our hearts and lives. For God’s glory, our good, and the good of a desperate world that needs to know Jesus, let’s stop relentlessly sniping at each other and become in actual thought and practice what He went to the cross to make us—His pure and spotless bride.”
In the Father’s Arms
I really enjoyed reading this reflection from Sylvia. “His little fingers caressed the nape of daddy’s neck. While a deep voice sang, the boys pudgy fingers twirled at the soft fuzzy edge of hair at the back of daddy’s head, until mesmerized little eyelids drooped and finally closed. Dad and Mom gazed at each other nodding, confirming he slept. And then, they just gazed in contentment. Mom and Dad, onlookers to a pint sized miracle. Their pride and contentment was sweet to see.”
Independent Power
Seth marvels at the power of the President of the United States but then puts that power in its proper context.
3 Reasons Your Pastors Are a Gift
“We tend to be grateful for those who better our lives: doctors who detect illnesses, caregivers who alleviate our sufferings, and emergency personnel who rescue us. Your pastors guard something far more valuable than your physical health. God has entrusted them with the precious task of caring for your soul. This profound mandate belongs to your pastors and only to them. Consider how they fulfill that mandate.”
Supported by God in Troubling Times
Vance Christie: “When passing through overwhelming trials, God’s people are sometimes tempted to think that He has forgotten them or no longer cares about them. They cry out to Him for help, only to receive silence from Heaven and no relief from their excruciating difficulties.”
Flashback: If I Was the World’s Only Christian…
…it’s beautifully and wonderfully true that our God is the God of all kinds of people and that he is building a kingdom of young and old, great and poor, black and white, wise and simple, famous and unknown.
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
—John Flavel
