The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you today.
I added a few new Kindle deals today and, as always, will keep up the search.
(Yesterday on the blog: Two Ways To Read the Bible)
Encouraging Your Worship Leader
Here are some useful tips on encouraging the person who leads worship at your church. “One morning, after a worship service, a lady approached me and asked, ‘Do you put ketchup on your ice cream?’ Confused, I shook my head, no. ‘Then don’t put drums on my hymns.’ I thanked her for her vivid (even visceral!) metaphor, but her comment misses a very important truth.”
Why Aren’t Complementarians Training Women to Teach and Preach?
This article points out that, especially on the mission field, women are often called upon to teach and preach (in settings that do not involve the presence of men). That being the case, shouldn’t they be taught to do so well? “Many complementarian churches are not training even their most gifted women in how to teach and preach the Bible. They are training their women to value good teaching and preaching from the Bible, and to discern good teaching and preaching from the fluff—and these are very good things. Yet it needs to be said that sitting under good preaching and recognizing it is not the same thing as being trained in how to do it.”
Enoch: The Pattern Breaker
Stephanie celebrates the legacy of Enoch who was a kind of Old Testament pattern breaker.
Am I the Quarrelsome Wife? The Making of a Good-Weather Wife
Tilly Dillehay: “How does a woman end up here? Does any woman really decide to become the bad weather in her husband’s life? Or are the habits of contention like other, better habits — like joy, gratitude, and laughter — which develop with time and regular feeding?”
Atheist Says Human Rights Aren’t Real
Sometimes smart people can say dumb things. That’s the case in this video in which an atheist tries to make the case that there is no such thing as human rights. Tim Barnett rebuts his view.
Can a White Person Suffer From Racism
David Robertson points out some of the absurdities and contradictions in society today—the ones that say that some races cannot be racist while others cannot not be racist (or something like that).
Flashback: The Inadvertent Trailblazer
Just as we can lead people to habits that dishonor God and harm others, we can lead people to habits that glorify God and do good to others.
Take away the soul from the body, and all you have left in a few days is a stinking carcass. Take away the fear of God from any profession of godliness, and all that is left is the stinking carcass of pharisaism, barren religiosity, or calculated hypocrisy.
—Albert N. Martin
