David Mathis’s A Little Theology of Exercise, which by coincidence I read and reviewed this week, is deeply discounted at Westminster Books. It’s a good read!
Today’s Kindle deals include a book for people attempting to better understand transgenderism and its impact on families.
Time to Talk Bride Price
I appreciate what Christian has to say here about cross-cultural dating and customs. In his particular case, he had to figure out what to do with the idea of a bride price.
Among the Amish
Timothy Price has spent an unusually large time among the Amish and shares some of what he has learned from and about them. “Most Americans are wildly misinformed about the Amish. What isn’t known to most Americans is that writers or documentary people get involved in one area of the Amish world— oblivious to the fact that the Amish world is tremendously nuanced from place to place. These content makers take their limited experience and exposure as comprehensive of all things Amish.”
What Is Hypocrisy?
Kyle Borg does a great job here describing hypocrisy in its various facets. “The Bible teaches us to think about hypocrisy in different ways, each demonstrating what it looks and sounds like. It does this to warn us. Biblically, one of the greatest dangers of hypocrisy is that the hypocrite can dupe himself into thinking he is what he claims to be. If unrecognized and unrepented of, it poses an eternal danger.”
Leader, Our Biggest Problem is Not Other People
Dave Harvey: “I’ve noticed that the harder life or ministry becomes, the more we think about the causes of our problems through the actions or omissions of others. We rarely color ourselves into the picture.”
Five Prayers Every Pastor Should Pray for His Church
Pastors (and others) will benefit from this list of items to pray for. “What answers to prayer could you be thanking God for a few months or a year from now? Start with praying for the salvation of the lost, believers to be matured, humble leadership, joyful fellowship, and the glory of God to always be the goal!”
Loving God in Life’s Biggest Disappointments
John Piper offers counsel on loving God amid life’s major disappointments. “It is possible for a mature woman or man to acknowledge to God and to oneself, and perhaps to a few close confidants, the deep longings that are not yet fulfilled, and yet carry on a joyful life — finding a fulfilling job, satisfying ministry, rewarding friendships, delightful leisure, stupendous Christian hope of being with Christ forever, all the while tasting what it would be like for another godly desire to be met that isn’t being met.”
Flashback: How an Emerging Church Pastor Inadvertently Changed My Life
I returned home to read that slim volume that advocated a whole new kind of Christianity. It repulsed me. I put it aside and started into those volumes of sermons which I soon learned advocated a very old kind of Christianity. They electrified me.
Should anyone knock at my heart and say, “Who lives here?” I should reply, “Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.”
—Martin Luther
