Good morning. Grace and peace to you.
Today’s Kindle deals include Bobby Jamieson’s Everything Is Never Enough, a book that is almost brand new. There’s also one by Jinger Duggar Vuolo and several others besides.
(Yesterday on the blog: A Few Memories of John MacArthur)
Coldplay, Legitimate Couples, and the Hypocrisy of the Sexular Age
Stephen McAlpine says that our society thinks cheating on a spouse is never okay, but then corrects himself. “I am going to go out on a limb and say that we are so inoculated by The Sexular Age that there is one scenario on that unfortunate Coldplay concert night in which there may have been a more muted disapproval.” I very much agree with him.
The Doctrine of Unconditional Election Explained (YouTube)
Those who grapple with the doctrine of unconditional election may appreciate this video from Adriel Sanchez. He explains the doctrine very well.
Scottie’s Secret
Daniel is right, I think. “The world’s best golfer isn’t saying his vocation is meaningless. He’s sharing a powerful (and ancient) lesson on how to order our loves.”
The Brilliant Apologetic Strategy of the Ancient Church
Michael Kruger explains the brilliant apologetic strategy of the ancient church and tells what today’s church what it can learn from it.
How Prayer Actually Works
Fred Sanders: “You don’t have to get your Trinitarian theology all sorted out before you can pray to the Trinity. Our God hears prayers. He does not wait for us to pass the theology test before he listens to us praying.” However, it is still good and important to understand how prayer works!
Bad Dreams
“A dream like that can be disconcerting. It’s like our mind has betrayed us, bringing us somewhere we didn’t want to go. It also raises the question of responsibility. Are we culpable for the dark thoughts that our mind generates while we’re unconscious? We didn’t craft that dream ourselves, did we? Our dreams aren’t like a playlist that we select at the beginning of a night’s sleep before closing our eyes—dreams just happen, right?”
Flashback: The Most Remarkable Characteristic
Though this omniscient, eternal, and holy God has given us his writings, and though through the Bible he has revealed the way we can be saved, few take the time to give it a fair reading, and few bother to read it all the way through.
Exercising authority does not increase my status or value, any more than submitting to authority reduces my status or value.
—Christopher Ash
