May the Lord be with you and bless you today.
Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of books on gender ideology, a Bible study, and more.
(Yesterday on the blog: 12 General Market Books I Have Enjoyed Recently)
I Don’t Have an LGBTQ Neighbor–and Neither Do You
Rosaria Butterfield: “Worldviews have consequences, and bad ones have casualties. In our anti-Christian world, two competing worldviews about what it means to be human are on a collision course. One is the category of being made in the image of God. The other is the category of ‘sexual orientation.’ Our identity is going to come from one or the other.”
Satan Doesn’t Use Rubber Bullets
“Christians often act as if Satan is using rubber bullets. They wouldn’t say it, but the way they behave treats sin as something light or non-serious. Yeah, their sin might hurt, but it’s not like it’s going to kill them. They don’t realize the incredible danger they are in. Not physical danger, but spiritual danger.”
Regretting the Day I Was Born
I very much agree with John Piper in this: “It is never right, it is always sin, to feel or think or say critical things about God and his ways.” However we lament, we must never criticize God, for “everything he does is right and good and wise and holy.”
11 Romance Tales That Celebrate Traditional Families
With so much media disparaging the traditional family, Chloe Ann offers a list of books that celebrate it. “Our modern culture has tried to redefine romance, marriage, love, identity, gender, family, and so much more. Reading children’s stories that accurately depict and beautifully celebrate traditional families will strengthen their love for God’s glorious design.”
Tradition Didn’t Kill My Faith. Amnesia Almost Did.
Adam Finkney: “American evangelicalism is very good at producing faith that feels personal. It is far less good at producing faith that lasts. Many people who walk away from Christianity are described as victims of doctrine—crushed by rigidity, suffocated by authority. Sometimes that’s true. But just as often, the opposite is the case. They were never meaningfully formed by doctrine at all. They weren’t worn down by creeds; they were sustained by vibes.”
Why the Little Things Matter More Than We Think
Anna Jacob explains why the little things matter more than we think they do.
Flashback: Lessons Learned Through Tears
There are so many graces that can only be pricked into us by the puncture of suffering, and so many lessons that can only be learned through tears, that when God leaves a Christian without any trials, He really leaves him to a terrible danger. His heart, unplowed by discipline, will be very apt to run to the tares of selfishness and worldliness and pride.
The Bible does not call pastor-teachers to be entrepreneurs, movie directors, or psychologists. God calls His shepherds to be preachers. He calls them to stand in the gap and skillfully proclaim His Word.
—Michael Fabarez
