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(Yesterday on the blog: The Breakthrough Prayer)
Aging With Joy
John Piper shares some wisdom on aging with joy. “Between now and the moment we die, we are walking into an unknown country. No matter how many steps you have taken to make it feel secure, it’s not — not in this world. Now, how do we do that? How do we enter that unknown with joy and dignity and hope? That’s the question that’s being asked. And to be honest, it may be impossible to do it with dignity.”
25 Lessons on Money and Church Leadership
I enjoyed these bullet point lessons on money and church leadership. (Also on the subject of money, see Susan Lafferty’s Giving.)
Remembering Who We Are When We Disagree
This is so important: “Where God’s Word allows freedom or the use of wisdom in applying biblical principles to complex situations, we must maintain a humble posture and remember that the people with whom we disagree are not adversaries to be defeated, but brothers and sisters in Christ.”
Don’t Be a Discouraging Christian
“Negativity is contagious, and one discourager is likely to create two or three more just through casual conversations. I doubt many of us set out to demoralize others when we wake up in the morning, but it’s very likely to happen unless we are cultivating the fruits of the spirit within ourselves. We can’t be lights in the world if we are too busy being wet noodles, and that’s exactly why we have to seek the Lord daily and ask Him to help us be encouragers.”
Why Are Medical Groups Now Opposing Gender Surgeries for Minors?
“Within days of each other, the American Medical Association and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons have issued recommendations that gender-related surgeries for minors be deferred until adulthood.” Joe Carter provides some of the background to this encouraging development.
Raising Church-Loving Children
There is wisdom here about an issue every Christian parent confronts: how to raise your children to love the church. “If we want to raise children who genuinely love what Jesus loves, we must give them a clear, biblical vision of the church and confront the cultural misconceptions that undermine our commitment to it. Understanding what Scripture teaches, and what it does not teach, about the church is foundational for cultivating deep, lasting love for Christ’s body in our homes.”
Flashback: Dumb Will Do: Why Satan Doesn’t Need Heresy
It struck me that day and has struck me often ever since that to harm a church, Satan does not need to make the worship services heretical. He does not need to replace truth with damnable error. He just needs to make the worship services dumb. He just needs to make them trite and vapid.
Be merciful to yourselves. Seek the Lord early, and so you will be spared many a bitter tear.
—J.C. Ryle
