It’s a big question today: Are restroom laws that respect privacy the equivalent of Jim Crow laws?
Planetary Transit
NASA got some amazing footage of Mercury making its way between us and the sun, something that happens just 13 times each century.
Where’s Your Heart?
Randy Alcorn: “Do you wish you cared more about eternal things? Then reallocate some of your money, maybe most of your money, from temporal things to eternal things. Put your resources, your assets, your money and possessions, your time and talents and energies into the things of God. Watch what happens.”
Love the Season You’re In
This is a good exhortation from Kim Shay: Love the season you’re in and don’t wish you were in a different season of life.
Essentials in the Ministry of the Lord
Geoffrey Kirkland: “I like to make it a habit to read through the Pastoral Epistles regularly and in one sitting so that the Spirit of God exhorts my soul with truths from Holy Scripture regarding the ministry of the Lord. I want to remain on track. I want to major on the essentials. I must prioritize what God tells me to focus on and avoid what He tells me to flee from. Today I want to highlight seven essentials in the ministry of the Lord.”
Teaching: Ten Top Tips?
Andrew Wilson has ten great tips on confidently studying and teaching God’s Word but without getting yourself into interpretive trouble.
This Day in 330. 1,686 years ago today, “Roman emperor Constantine, the first Christian emperor, inaugurates Constantinople as his capital on the site of the Greek city of Byzantium.” *
Pixar – What Makes a Story Relatable
This is a great look at Pixar movies and what makes them so good.
Flashback: The One Sure Mark of Christian Maturity
“What does it mean to be a mature Christian? I think we tend to believe that mature Christians are the ones who know a lot of facts about the Bible. Mature Christians are the ones who have their theology down cold. But…”
Prayer and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
—J.C. Ryle
