Good morning. Grace and peace to you.
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(Yesterday on the blog: Let Them Leap To Hell Over Our Bodies)
The Gift of What I’ll Never Write
It is good to learn to appreciate the gift of what we will never write. Or more broadly, the things we set out to do but will never actually accomplish.
Bible Reading Blues? Study Your Stop
This article at ROH is designed to help you diagnose why you may have stopped reading your Bible. “If you were sitting across from me and you mentioned that you’d abandoned your Bible reading plan, I wouldn’t ask you about what went well. We’d talk about what didn’t work. We’d start with what made you stop because understanding why you didn’t finish could be the key to helping you begin again.”
HALT-B
HALT-B is perhaps not the sharpest acronym ever coined, but it does helpfully describe the most common reasons behind our poor choices.
The Gift of Middle Age
“As I look back over my life to this point, and peer into the fog of the future, I’m asking for the grace of contentment—learning to say, with the psalmist, ‘The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.’ Even when I stand near the edges, tempted by wistful thoughts of what might have been or what still could be, I trust that the Lord hasn’t drawn these lines haphazardly.”
So, You Can’t Seem to Function Today
Alan Noble: “I feel like some truths need to be preached to us over and over again. The gospel, foremost, but there are other truths. And for some of us, we need to hear certain truths about how to survive and move when we’re in a funk, when we feel like we can’t function.”
Neither Authoritarianism nor Anti-Institutionalism
Jonathan Leeman describes what spiritual authority is and is not. This matter is crucial for pastors and parishioners alike!
Flashback: Don’t Cheat Yourself Out of Good Tools
Don’t be afraid or ashamed to get the tools you need to do your best possible work. If you’re going to scrimp and save, well and good, but this is not the place to do it.
Death is both the king of terrors and the terror of kings.
—William Plumer
