Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Logos users, remember to check out the commentary sale they’ve got going on right now. (Also remember that the NICOT/NICNT are on sale as well.)
At Westminster Books you’ll find a sale on a new collection of R.C. Sproul’s Tabletalk writings, plus many of his other books.
Not Just More, But Other: Teens, Theodicies, and Classical Theism
In this article from the new Ad Fontes Journal, Rhys Laverty looks at Mackie’s famous triangle. “The God of Mackie’s triangle is a mere man, and a straw man at that. The conundrum supposes that the qualities of power and love belong to God in the same way they belong to us, as qualities or attributes to be exercised as we imagine we would exercise them. But it’s not so with God. He is the definition of power and love, and not simply by being the one who best exercises them, but by himself being the source of our ideas about those things in the first place.”
Why the Gospel-Centered Movement Overlooks Youth Ministry
Mike McGarry offers some interesting comments on why the gospel-centered movement has overlooked youth ministry (and, in his opinion, ought not to).
Sorrows of Gold
“The thing that has taken me forever and a day to acknowledge: it is okay to be broken and fragile, and to ask for help. Self-sufficiency is the noblest of lies, rooted in pride. Our hardships are not meant to sanctify only us: the sharing of burdens is God’s means to also grow others. While we all have our own responsibilities to carry, self-sufficiency can stealthily morph into selfishness.”
Open Letter from a Cuban Pastor
This is a sorrowful letter from a Cuban pastor lamenting the situation in his country.
Evangelism Isn’t Complicated; You Don’t Need Another Course
Stephen Kneale offers a bit of a challenge here. “You don’t need another course. You don’t need extensive training. You need a sentence or two that explains who Jesus is and why he matters. And you know it because you already believe it. And if you know it and believe it, you are equipped with everything you need to go and share it with other people.”
Husbands, 8 Admonitions to Love Your Wife
William Boekestein offers husbands “eight admonitions to love our wives with respect to their various facets.”
We Are Too Slow in Recognising Our Own Sin
“We always tend to see the sins and shortcomings of other people more clearly than we see our own sin. As Jesus said, we are the kind of people who notice the speck in the eyes of others rather than the plank in our own eyes. It is hard to honestly assess our own spiritual condition.”
Flashback: 3 Helpful Instructions on Keeping a Journal
The loss of your money, your property, and your possessions counts for nothing next to losing the record of God’s faithfulness to you.
The cumulative effect of too much information—so easily and constantly accessible to us—creates a burden that our minds and souls were not created to bear.
—Brett McCracken
