Today’s Kindle deals include some excellent resources that mean to help those who may struggle in different ways: depression, money management, contentment, and so on.
Book Brief: The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides is a riveting account of Captain Cook’s fateful third voyage around the world—an attempt to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. It transports the reader back to an age of discovery when Europeans were exploring the world and, at times, exploiting it. This, like Sides’ other books, is a joy to read and comes highly recommended. Once I began reading it, I couldn’t put it down!
Motherhood Is a Mission, Not an Identity
Melissa explains why it is so important to understand motherhood as a mission rather than an identity. “I see mothers who have confused identities. Somewhere along the way, Christian women have drifted into identifying as mothers first and daughters of God second, and I’m convinced this is where a lot of their hurt is coming from.”
What Betty Friedan Got Wrong About Motherhood
Also on the subject of motherhood, Nadya Williams tells what Betty Friedan got wrong and then goes on to suggest ways mothers can continue to develop a satisfying intellectual life. “When it comes to cultivating the intellectual life of mothers, children are not the enemy. They are cherished companions on the path to a flourishing mind—and spirit.”
Two Ways I Want to Be a Better Ministry Dad in 2026
Now we transition from motherhood to fatherhood and read how this writer is determined to be a better ministry dad in 2026. “There are many ways I could grow as a ministry dad. But alas, the Lord has not made us able to focus on very many things at the same time. So, here are two ways I’d like to focus on growing this year, based on wisdom that I’ve gleaned from other dads.”
Five Resolutions for Reformed Twitter in the New Year: Coram Deo in the Digital Age
Here are some resolutions for Christians who use Twitter/X or any other form of social media. “Reformed Twitter/X has become a lively town square. At its best, it is a place of theological clarity, confessional fidelity, and genuine encouragement. At its worst, it mirrors the same quarrelsome, reactionary, and undignified speech we lament everywhere else.”
The Flattening of the Human Person: Looksmaxxing and Clavicular
Eddie LaRow: “I’ve long been thinking about the rootlessness of Gen Z—a generation longing for home and community. One symptom of this rootlessness is the spectacle of status: young men and women saying outrageous things to evoke a reaction, forging pseudo-communities through shock value, attempting to break free from the digital mass society by becoming its most extreme performers.”
Stand Firm (Video)
Be sure to take a listen to this new song from CityAlight and CXMMXNS. It’s a good one!
Flashback: Why Is There Only One Way To Heaven?
Just as Adam stood before God and was rebellious on our behalf, Jesus stood before God and was obedient on our behalf. In this way we fall and stand on our sameness. The one road that leads us away from God is paralleled by the one road that leads us back to him.
Morality may keep you out of jail but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.
—C.H. Spurgeon
