Good morning. Grace and peace to you.
If all goes well, today’s Kindle deals will include several of the excellent “Theologians on the Christian Life” series, most of which I haven’t seen on sale in the past. There are some other good picks as well.
Westminster Books has Lydia Brownback’s excellent “Flourish” series of Bible study guides for women discounted at the moment.
Happy 80th Birthday, John Piper
John Piper just celebrated his 80th birthday, and Justin Taylor wrote a nice little tribute for Christianity Today. (You may need a free account to read it.)
The Permanence for a Lifetime
Tom Sugimura: “From the beginning, God designed marriage as one man and one woman for one lifetime. But to build their marriage on this biblical basis, both husband and wife must embrace the permanence of marriage. As a pastor, I’ve observed four practical principles to do this well.”
Pushing Back on the Loneliness Epidemic
“Here’s the thing: teenagers are going to battle loneliness, and there’s no getting around that. The dissonance they feel when loneliness creeps in will drive them to find comfort in several places, and, depending on their choices, that can end up hurting them even more. However, what the gospel offers a young person is something that will actually help them, actually last, and actually stand as a living example to others about what it means to be ‘with’—with God and with others.” (Sponsored)
A Baker’s Dozen of Benefits of Reading Your Bible Every Day
Just like the title says, here’s a list of benefits that will come as you commit to reading your Bible on a daily basis.
If Jesus Wasn’t Enough for Philip Yancey, Is He Enough for Me?
Alan Noble says it is right and good that we base our lives on models of living. Yet “the problem comes when those who we have set up as godly examples end up failing us, when someone like Philip Yancey, who seems like righteous man, turns out to be hiding an affair for eight years. If that well-known model of godliness cannot persevere, how can I? I think that is really the question being asked.”
Don’t Be Stingy-Generous
“As Christians, we know we should be generous. We hear radical gospel living should come with a housekey. So, instead of taking baby steps toward stretching our hospitality in genuine ways that come most naturally to us, we often snatch at splashy gestures that have the highest chance of being seen but represent the lowest real cost. We practice a calculated generosity in hopes of getting the highest spiritual bang for our material buck.”
From Sermon to Article: Turning Oral Teaching into Written Content
I have noticed that many preachers do a poor job of turning their sermons into books or articles. This piece at TGC is designed to help them (or other oral teachers) make the transition to written content.
Flashback: Be a Parent Worthy of Honor
Children are not to wait until their parents prove honorable before extending honor, for the parents’ honor derives from their position, not their behavior. Yet there is still an onus on the parent to live a worthy and respectable life. And this is what I wish to consider today…
I have no comfort to give you. God has given you all possible comfort. All I can do is to try to help you to take it.
—Maltbie Davenport Babcock
