The God of love and peace be with you today.
Just a reminder that my book Pilgrim Prayers released recently. I have been receiving encouraging feedback from those who are using it to help them pray. Please give it a look!
This morning’s Kindle deals are headlined by J. Warner Wallace’s Person of Interest. You’ll also find a book for and about women as well one that deals with life’s “intentional interruptions.”
The Disadvantage of More Money
“You can think about money like having a big family. The blessings are many, but the responsibilities multiply just as fast. For as many new opportunities that money provides, it brings just as many complexities and demands. Where will you give? Where will you invest? How much do you spend and what do you spend on when budgeting becomes theoretical?”
How Much Money Do I Need to Retire?
John Piper discusses how Christians should think about personal finances as they prepare for retirement.
The Humanity of Hospitality
Carl Trueman: “Here is the cynicism of the postmodern condition on display. Kindness to others in the form of hospitality becomes yet another power play, another way of putting somebody else beneath us in the hierarchy, of asserting superiority. Nietzsche for the win.”
A Midlife Assessment
Faith Chang writes about some of what she is considering as she enters into the middle stretch of her life.
How to Raise Charges Against a Church Elder or Pastor
This is a helpful guide to raising or dealing with charges against an elder. “The church must avoid two extremes. The first is easily believing any and every charge raised against an elder. The second extreme is dismissing every charge. It is also very important to remember that while some in the church might be used by the evil one to bring false charges, my experience has shown me that there are even more in the church who are a great blessing to their elders. Such saints are to always be appreciated and never be taken for granted.”
The Gift of Crisis
Lynne Rienstra: “Crisis. It’s the gift none of us wants. Because when crisis comes, it broadsides us. It reminds us that in spite of our best efforts, we are ultimately out of control. Crisis exposes us as those who are in deep need and unable to help ourselves. It causes us to cry out to God. But what if at that very point, crisis turned out to be a gift?”
Flashback: On the Day When God Fails in Just One of His Promises
There’s nothing easier than looking at the world around us and feeling despair. Society is in open rebellion against God and it seems like that rebellion must soon lead to some kind of persecution against God’s people.
Sin may seem pleasant to us now, but we must not forget how it will appear when we get past it and turn to look back on it; especially must we keep in mind how it will seem from a dying pillow.
—David Gibson
