If you’re interested in getting some good reading material for your children, take a look at Westminster Books and their sale on the Dream Keeper Saga box set.
Today’s Kindle deals include a book about enhancing your communication within marriage, a book about avoiding being insufferable, and a couple of others as well.
About the Thing That Happened at That Coldplay Concert…
Denny shares something important about what happened at that Coldplay concert: that whatever else is true of it, it’s not funny.
Marrying an Unbeliever
I know many parents who will identify with this. “When you broke the news, I tried to smile, but deep inside where the deep hurts hurt, I was crying. Forgive me, please, precious daughter. I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but parents have dreams as well.”
How Can I Care for My Elderly Parents Without Burning Out? (Video)
Many of my peers are now caring for elderly parents and wondering how they can do so joyfully and without burning out. Mike Emlet offers helpful counsel.
Test Yourself, but Trust in Jesus
That’s a good word: Test yourself, but trust in Jesus. “Paul’s exhortation to be regularly testing the sincerity and purity of your own faith is not given in order to make you doubt your salvation every other day. Faith in Christ is exactly that: faith in Jesus’ finished work, not in our own faithfulness. However, we are to be regularly doing the hard work of honest self-appraisal.”
5 Dangers to Avoid in Parenting
“When children say, ‘I don’t care’ or ‘It doesn’t matter,’ they are often conveying discouragement. It is tempting to dismiss a dispirited child’s behavior as being teenager-ish or childish. But parents must resist assuming that their child’s indifference is normal. In fact, there are hosts of young people who are passionate about life and enthusiastic in godliness. But sometimes this passion is squelched by parental provocation.” Here are five ways parents can provoke their children.
H.B. Charles Remembers John MacArthur
Be sure to read H.B. Charles’ sweet tribute to John MacArthur. “During those years hanging out around Grace Church and The Master’s Seminary, I never met John MacArthur. I did not expect that I would ever meet him. But the mark he had made on my life was indelible. Friends called me ‘Black-Arthur,’ and said my radio broadcast would be called ‘Grace to Y’all.’”
Flashback: Jesus Repulses, Jesus Draws
Some people encounter Jesus and find him the most dreadful thing in the world; some people encounter Jesus and find him the most desirable thing in the world. Some beg him to leave and some beg to follow.
The world invites you to a life of résumés and achievements, one in which you also have to live with your many failures…In contrast, the kingdom of God is about the successes of Christ, which become your own as you trust him, essentially saying, “I’m with him.”
—Ed Welch
