The God of peace be with you today.
As always, it’s a good idea to check for new Kindle deals on a daily basis since many of them last for just 24 or 48 hours. (Something called National Book Lovers Day that is happening today and that has led to lots of deals, especially on the general market side of things.)
Westminster Books has a deal on a new book titled In His Hands that collects a particular kind of prayer. And don’t forget that you can also get a deep discount on Christopher Ash’s commentary on the Psalms.
How Christians Can Fight the War on Lies
Joe Carter has an extended look at how Christians can fight the war on lies. “This post-truth age poses profound challenges for Jesus followers. How does the church proclaim the gospel in a world where all truth claims are viewed with suspicion? How do we engage in meaningful dialogue when emotional resonance often trumps logical argument? And perhaps most critically, how do we maintain the integrity of our witness when the very concept of objective truth is under assault?”
What Protestants Can Learn From Catholics
Carl Trueman offers some interesting thoughts here. “We Protestants default far too quickly to a spiritualized understanding of Christ’s prayer that his people should be one, at the cost of credibility. Unfortunately, the purchase price of Catholicism’s institutional unity often seems to be the hierarchy’s practical indifference to actual doctrinal and moral unity. If a church opposes abortion but never holds its people to account on the issue, then the question of what ‘opposes’ means becomes rather pressing.”
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Impossibly, Gradually, Miraculously Changed
Glenna Marshall: “The apostle Paul talked about our slow path to holiness. We are, he said, being transformed (that’s the certain part) from one degree of glory to another (that’s the slow part) into the image of the Lord (that’s the beautiful part).”
Seven Encouragements for Parents of Prodigals
Here is some encouragement from John Piper for parents of prodigals.
The Blindspot About Women and Sexuality
Ellen Dykas wants to be sure women aren’t overlooked when we speak of the struggles against pornography and other forms of hidden sexual sin.
Temptation Might Not Be What You Think
“As Christians, we must resist the shortcuts that promise blessing apart from faith. We must continually be on guard against the offer to get ahead without the hard process of learning to wait on God. We must resist the plethora of quick fixes that promise to get us to the destination apart from our own time in the wilderness.”
Flashback: We Must, We Can, Bloom for Him
No matter what unfolds around us and no matter what is done to us, we are able to bloom for him—to display the truest love, the greatest gentleness, the highest reaches of Christian character.
What God does is not so wonderful as what he does not do.
—De Witt Talmage
