🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians. 🇨🇦
There are so many new Kindle deals today! There are a couple of excellent ones by Philip Ryken, a couple more by Al Mohler, and many others besides.
(Yesterday on the blog: Satan Can Stage a Quiet Revival Too)
The Queen of Sheba Tries AI
“We live in a peculiar age—one of infinite data and constant distraction. We are drowning in information, but starving for meaning. The digital miracle hasn’t answered our deepest questions. It hasn’t touched the longing of the heart. You can’t google wisdom. Google can’t tell you why, and it can’t tell you who.”
Did We Sin Our Marriage Away?
John Piper speaks with compassion to someone who wonders whether she sinned her marriage away. “The biblical answer to separation is reconciliation. It won’t be easy. Lifelong marriage has never been easy — good grief! What lies in front of you, in tackling this reconciliation and another thirty or forty years together, isn’t going to be easy. It’s just going to be glorious, as God gives grace.”
Is It Worth It?
That’s a good question to ask whenever you’re tempted to sin: Is it worth it?
When To Stop Treatment
Randy Alcorn writes about when it may be the right time to stop medical treatments. “Always resolve that when the right time comes, if it does, you are willing to quit treatments and go to Jesus whenever He wishes.”
5 Essential Practices When Comforting the Grieving
“Though every person’s grief is unique, I’ve learned five practices I believe are essential when comforting the grieving.” This is good, helpful, and needful.
Jesus Doesn’t Use Fake Plants
I enjoyed this meditation on trees and the metaphors we use to describe ourselves.
Flashback: You Don’t Really Know Who Your Friends Are Until…
…while I am no prognosticator of doom, it seems increasingly clear that a relationship with Jesus will soon be more and more of a liability before this watching, judging world.
Failure to see our sin as primarily against God is, I believe, the reason we experience so little heartfelt grief over it.
—Jerry Bridges
