Good morning. Grace and peace to you.
The highlight of today’s Kindle deals is probably Matthew Bingham’s A Heart Aflame for God, which is usually over $30. If all goes well, you’ll also find books by Paul David Tripp and John Piper, whose new edition of Desiring God is on sale for the first time.
A Plea to Older Women
Barbara writes to her fellow older women. “It’s good for older people to share from their experience or express their opinions. But how we share our concerns is as important as what we share.”
Let Someone Serve You in Suffering
“I don’t like asking for help. Frankly, I’d rather take care of myself, by myself.” I think many of us feel the same as Vaneetha Rendall Risner—we would rather help than be helped.
Why AI Writing Can’t Compete
“Almost no one uses an AI prompt to contemplate their soul in an act of leisure. Usually, it is to farm engagement. By contrast, the reason we journal and write is for our souls. The outward product of our transformation by writing is one thing; the transformation within is another.”
Influencers
Cheryl writes for those who wonder if their relatively small influence means they shouldn’t even bother.
The Hidden Danger of Online Sermons
I have often contemplated how online sermons prove such a blessing in some ways and such a challenge in others.
Two Truths and an Opportunity to Disciple Young People in the Age of the Smartphone
“It’s obviously true that smartphones have transformed how we live, something that Jonathan Haidt describes as ‘the Great Rewiring,’ resulting in an end to the traditional play based childhood and the advent of the phone based one. In a world like this, one where more than twenty-four thousand minutes of new user video is uploaded to YouTube every minute of every day, how can the church ensure we’re doing what we can to disciple our young people?”
Flashback: The Legend of the Battle-Weary Crusader
Each of us who is in Christ is tending a little garden in which heavenly seeds have been planted and begun to thrive…Each of us is responsible to tend that garden, to foster the growth of those precious seeds, and to watch with joy as they come to fuller and fuller bloom.
The Holy Spirit arouses the guilty soul to the enormous sinfulness of sin and points him to the cross before him, the heaven above him, and the hell beneath him!
—Theodore Cuyler
