Good morning from Tasmania! I’m glad to be here in Australia for the Grace & Truth conference and look forward to meeting some of you this weekend.
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One of My Biggest Fears
J.V. Fesko expresses one of the biggest fears he has as a pastor. He also tells what he does about it.
Ways to Pray for the Lost
We all have unbelievers we pray for, but can sometimes find ourselves praying the same things over and over again. Barbara offers a whole list of different prayers you may want to pray for those you love.
Why We Need to Talk About Body Image in Women’s Discipleship
I want to highlight a pair of articles written by and for women that may be especially helpful. This first one expresses how important it is to talk about body image in women’s discipleship. “As a biblical counselor, I know that depression, anxiety, anger, and addiction come up in many discipling relationships, and they rightfully grab our concern and care. But there’s another important discipleship topic that we tend to overlook: body image. Here’s why we need to be prepared to discuss it.”
Grace for the Birth Story You Didn’t Expect
In the second, Staci offers help to women whose birth story didn’t go the way they expected or desired. “The truth of it is, things in the world don’t work as they should. Your friend’s birth story might be one of empowerment and candlelight, while yours might be one of operating rooms and oxygen masks. You may not even have been conscious when your child entered the world. You may question if you made the right decisions. Or, if it was an emergency situation, if those in control made the right decisions.”
Why I Am Not Bothered By Human-Chimp Similarity
“We’ve all heard the claims. For the past several decades, the ‘99%’ claim has been thrown in our faces, as if it’s proof-positive that evolution is a fact. Even though they have backed down a little, the admittedly high similarity between our two species is still used to claim common ancestry.” Here’s why that’s not a problem for creationists.
Do Not Neglect the Gift You Have
Scott Hubbard compiles three reasons we may be tempted to neglect the gifts God has given us, and then counters each one.
Flashback: Could There Be a Worse Home Than This?
The love of the Spirit is shown in his wondrous patience with us in all our sinfulness, while he lives in us and deals with us in the culturing of our Christian life.
Good shepherds smell like sheep because they live and walk among the sheep and are not sequestered from the flock.
—David Mathis
