You may know that I maintain a page that lists the Best Commentaries on Each Book of the Bible. I have recently given the lists a big update, so be sure to check with it when you go commentary shopping!
Today’s Kindle deals include a whole collection of new books. If you didn’t check in yesterday, be sure to scroll back a day as there were lots of new deals.
Today’s Thoughts Become Tomorrow’s Habits
“Do you think about your thoughts? Not in some meta or psychological way, but do you ever consider the kinds of things you allow your mind to dwell on? According to Scripture, thinking about your thinking is not only a fruitful discipline but a necessary one. The Bible repeatedly draws our attention to our habits of attention.”
You Will Never Reach Your Potential
Michael Jensen explains why you will never reach your potential (and why that’s okay).
The Farmer Who Chose to Plant Kindness
This biblically based fable teaches children the consequences of selfishness and how genuine, Christlike kindness can be contagious. (Sponsored)
What Does Grieving with Hope Look Like? (Video)
Gunner Gundersen provides a compassionate answer to this question: In the face of loss, what does “grieving with hope” look like in the day-to-day?
Who Do You Want to Become?
Brianna Lambert writes about human frailty and finitude in the light of who she wants to become.
After Deconstruction, What?
I found this an especially encouraging article from Shane Rosenthal. He tells of a prominent deconstructionist who has changed his course.
What Is the Fruit of Self-Control?
Of all the attributes God calls us to, perhaps the easiest to carry out in the spirit of legalism is self-control. Yet we must know that any change in our lives must be empowered by the Spirit.
Flashback: The Year of Our Dreams or the Year of Our Nightmares
If he has planned the finest details of the structure of his creation, shouldn’t we also believe that he has planned the finest details of our circumstances? If this is the case, we can have tremendous confidence in all that the year will bring.
Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
—Tim Keller
