May the Lord be with you and bless you on this fine day. I very much enjoyed my time in California and enjoyed meeting some of you (and/or your children) at TMU and TMS. Today I’m heading home.
Westminster Books has lots of deals on new and noteworthy books for kids.
Today’s Kindle deals include quite a nice variety of good books.
Is There a Christian Genocide Happening in Nigeria?
Oyewole Akande is a Nigerian believer who wanted to offer his perspective on the recent reports of violence in Nigeria.
CityAlight – Rise With The Sun (Video)
CityAlight has just released their own video for “Rise with the Sun” (which was written to accompany my book and documentary From the Rising of the Sun). It should also now (or soon) be available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the other apps. Enjoy!
The AI Revolution is Coming for our Kids
Clare Morell explains in hard-to-read detail how the AI revolution is already coming for our kids. “In case you haven’t been following as closely all the news stories about the harms to children from AI chatbots over the last few months, let me give you a brief lay of the land of what parents must understand about the threats of AI to our children that are already here.”
4 Prerequisites for Ministry No One Talks About
“If you’re thinking about ministry, you need an honest appraisal of the difficulty inherent to the calling. You need to hear about the prerequisites no one talks about.” Here are four of them.
Eight Ways to Live Out Your Assurance
John Piper lists eight ways that Christians are to live out their assurance of salvation. “You can be reading the Bible almost anywhere, and the question will pop into your mind: Is this real? Or maybe more commonly, Am I real at this point? Which is why, perhaps, the Bible provides so many different ways of helping us maintain our confidence, our assurance — not only that Christ is real but that we are real, that our faith is true, saving faith that will bring us all the way through death into God’s happy, everlasting presence.”
Give Your Best Away
Kristin explains why and how it’s okay to give your best away. “God blesses us with good things to enjoy and to share. How attractive authentic generosity and openhandedness are in this selfish world! When fear takes the wheel, generosity fades, giving way to miserly behaviors, giving others less than our best.”
Flashback: On Hoarding Wealth and Fostering Gifts
God has given you talents—things you may be unusually good at. Are you using these for his glory?
We bring so little glory to Christ, because we seek so much our own.
—Octavius Winslow
