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Parents and/or grandparents may be interested in this box set of Training Young Hearts.
Today’s Kindle deals include a biography for young readers and Al Mohler’s helpful work on prayer. On the general market side there are some great history books and Abigail Schrier’s alarming Irreversible Damage.
Why Being Late to Church Matters
Joe Carter makes the case that being late to church matters. “If we truly believe corporate worship is a vital expression of our faith and that gathering in Christ’s name matters, then our actions should reflect those beliefs. This isn’t about legalism or creating burdens. This is about aligning our theology and our practice.”
Everything Changes, but God Doesn’t
Melissa is right that even while everything around us changes, God never does.
Silent Women, Speaking Women
John Piper answers a difficult question from the Bible: What does Paul mean when he says, “I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.”
5 Truths About Your Physical and Spiritual Health
Jen offers “five truths that pertain to both our spiritual fitness and our physical fitness.” It makes sense that there is a lot of correlation between the two since we are so closely knit together in body and soul.
Your Life as a TV Extra
“It’s a bizarre thing, this life. You’re unceremoniously thrust into this ongoing drama. You spend the next eighty years trying to get a handle on the plot and your role in this story. Just as you’re beginning to grasp the faintest inkling of what that might be, your scene ends.”
Not Enough Wisdom
John considers what he told his daughter as she gained her independence. “I’ve given you everything I have, Camille. I don’t have anything left. I’ve poured my heart into yours. You already know the best of what I know. I’ve taught you from heights of my proudest achievements and from the valleys of my most profound failures. Looking back, those vantage points seem desperately inadequate.”
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.
Anger is not beautiful. Ungoverned temper is not lovely. Rage is demonic. But a spirit calm, strong, and unflustered, amid storms of feeling and all manner of disturbing emotions is sublime in its beauty.
—JR Miller
