May the Lord be with you and bless you on this fine day.
Today’s Kindle deals include some good ones like Gary Millar’s Both/And Ministry and Tico Rice’s Faithful Leaders. In yesterday’s deals I mentioned Greg Allison’s Embodied; it was slow to have the price drop, but it has been lowered now. On the general market side, be sure to consider The Zorg.
(Yesterday on the blog: It Doesn’t Matter What You Remember)
Young People Are Turning to the Bible
Murray Campbell shares evidence that young people are turning to the Bible and then offers reasons why the Bible is worth reading. “My own generation (X) rebelled and argued and insisted on the Bible’s irrelevance. Why would anyone follow a book filled with everything opposed to find my own religion kind of vibe? It seems that for Generation Z, that suspicion and scepticism no longer washes. Having grown up in a society where the Bible is mystery and where every contemporary theory and contention is proving feeble and dishonest, lots of 18 year old guys and girls are asking, is there something to the Bible?”
What Conservative Young Men Really Need Right Now
Samuel James writes about the unexpected popularity of Nick Fuentes. “Fuentes, writes Lee, symbolizes an entire generation of men who have been oppressed by an ambient feminist culture. His moral degeneracy is the wrong answer to the right question, which is: How can one be a man in a world that hates men?”
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Debunking 4 Justifications for Self-Gratification
I changed the “m-word” to “self-gratification” to try to keep this out of your spam folder. In this article, Brittany Allen writes about why the typical justifications for that action simply don’t work.
A Guide to Reading David Powlison
If you’re not familiar with David Powlison, you should consider getting to know him through his writing. This guide from DG is a helpful outline of his contributions. (See also Ed Welch’s The Making of a Mature Counselor.)
The Influence of Reading
Ian Carmichael explains why reading is so important and how it can positively affect others.
On Boredom
“That we human beings experience boredom seems like a kind of sick joke on us creatures. We have the exhilarating gift of life and all the colours, tastes, and sounds of the universe, and yet we are so often stuck, not quite knowing what to do with it all. So many of our experiences are grey…”
Flashback: The Easiest Sin to Justify
When it comes to the sin of anger, we can always find an explanation that exists outside of us. We can always dump this sin in the lap of a husband or wife, a child or stranger. Failing that, we can plead fatigue or hormones or waking up on the wrong side of the bed or something—anything!—else.
The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
—Tim Keller
