Logos users will want to consider this month’s Legacy Library Sale and the sale on WBC mini-bundles. You will also want to take a look at the free and almost free books.
Today’s Kindle deals include some more excellent books, many of them intended to help parents.
(Yesterday on the blog: What Does a Name Mean?)
The Astounding Persistence of Life
Andrea celebrates the astounding persistence of life and draws a spiritual lesson from it.
Can Women Serve as Deacons? (Arguments for and Against)
Matt lays out the best arguments for and against women serving as deacons. At the end, he offers his perspective, then says, “I do not wish to be dogmatic in this view, and I certainly respect the many godly believers who disagree with me. As we await that time of eternal clarity ‘when the perfect comes [and] the partial will pass away’ (1 Cor. 13:10), there is room for both conclusions in the kingdom of God.”
To the Single Lady at the Wedding
It’s wedding season and Rachel has a word for single women who may struggle with attending them.
The Apologetic of Love on Display
“If all we get out of the so-called quiet revival is more people coming to church, that does not strike me as much of a revival at all. Moving unbelievers from outside the building to sitting in it with us at the same time is really not the mission of the church. Getting them inside might be part of the means we use to get to the desired end, but it is not the end itself. The goal is to make disciples.”
Over the Rainbow (Video)
The John 10:10 Project celebrates the rainbow in this new video.
Bottled Up Tears
Reuben Bredenhof: “Here is David, tears streaming down his face, a list of laments as long as his spear, enemies pressing, and where is God? So he pleads, ‘O Lord, take notice of my sorrows! Put my tears in your bottle and let them prompt you to action.’ It’s a prayer that God would see the depths of David’s suffering—its every detail and sigh—and finally respond in mercy and power.”
Flashback: How Can You Mumble?
How can you fail to sing when others need your words? How can you stay silent when others need the truths that could so easily pass through your mouth and reach their ear? How can you mumble when others so desperately need to hear?
It is easy to bring a man to the river of regret, but you cannot make him drink the water of repentance.
—C.H. Spurgeon
