Good morning. Grace and peace to you.
If all goes according to schedule, today’s Kindle deals will include an important book on prayer and several about the person and work of Jesus. Brad Bigney’s Gospel Treason is also worth a look.
The New David Movie and What Makes a Bible-Based Film “Good”
Zak Mellgren writes about the new David movie (which he enjoyed) and discusses some of the marks of a good Bible-based film.
The Ghost of Christmas Never
Samuel James does a good bit of cultural analysis here. “Risk aversion is my generation’s great besetting sin. Notions that millennials or Gen-Z are lazy and entitled are not always false, but they are superficial. Behind what looks like laziness and entitlement is fear: a pathological fear of falling short, of not obtaining what’s sought, of not knowing where to go or who to turn to.”
It Isn’t Night for the Moon
“As I drove home in the light of the moon, it occurred to me that the reason the moon could shine on me at night was because it was not night for the moon—while I was sitting in the dark, the moon was basking in a full and glorious day. The light it gave me was the overflow of the brightness it continued to receive from the sun. Suddenly, I was gripped with powerful aspiration to imitate the full moon above me.”
Should we have an Evangelism Target?
Is it necessary or even wise to set an evangelism target? That’s the subject of this article. “Remember the old adage – if you don’t have a target, you will miss it? Or, if you aim at nothing you will hit nothing? It’s an interesting feature of many contemporary evangelical churches that they have strategies, plans, goals and mission statements. And some have even adopted specific percentage goals.”
What Does It Mean to Be Made in God’s Image?
This relatively brief article explains what it means that we are made in God’s image.
4 Things Jesus Came to Do
Here are four things Jesus came to do.
Flashback: It Is We Who Must Be Bent
We must always pray that we would conform ourselves to the Word rather than conforming the Word to ourselves. We must always pray that we would allow our desires to be changed according to the Bible rather than allowing the Bible to be changed according to our desires.
How many of us there are who hug our troubles and say to God, “No, we won’t let anybody carry these troubles but ourselves.”
—Theodore Cuyler
