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Today’s Kindle deals include some almost brand-new and highly recommended books for parents, those who suffer from chronic pain, and others.
(Yesterday on the blog: If You Had Written the Bible)
The Worst Kind of Parenting Advice
Rebekah explains the worst kind of parenting advice while offering some much better advice. “Whether it’s 1999 or 2025, whether it’s face-to-face or on social media, whether the advice-givers are Christian or secular … the more things change, the more they stay the same.”
The Problem With Comer’s Cafeteria Approach to Spirituality
Matthew Bingham explains the problem with John Mark Comer’s “cafeteria” approach to spirituality. “Comer’s overall vision for the Christian life is a pick-what-works-for-you approach. It’s not that he’s a secret Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox proponent hiding things from his readers. Rather, his cafeteria approach is inherently unstable and doesn’t sit comfortably within any established Christian tradition.”
Stranger Things of the Old Testament: The Giants
The Bible has its fair share of strange things, including giants. So what do we do with that?
When to Put Salt in the Guest’s Shoes
I enjoyed this account of hospitality gone wrong. “In all this, we learned that in a culture that extends lavish offers of (often unsustainable) hospitality, there will always be people who, wittingly or unwittingly, take advantage of this. Finding kind and honorable ways out of this is therefore a top priority for all who attempt to extend these offers that most take hypothetically. Because some will take you literally.”
How Can a Wife Help Her Husband?
Barbara offers a whole list of ways that a wife can help her husband. “I’m reminded of Genesis 2:18, where God said He made woman a helper fit for or suitable for the man. And I wonder, am I being a help to my husband? And how do I do that?”
Social Media Pushes Pornography on Children Within Minutes, Report Finds
It is good for parents (and non-parents, for that matter) to know how quickly social media begins to push pornography on those who use it, including children.
Flashback: Are You Scattering Bad Seed?
…in every moment and every situation our sacred calling is to promote good growth instead of poor growth, to scatter good seed rather than bad.
Satan knows well the power of true holiness and the immense injury which increased attention to it will do to his kingdom.
—J.C. Ryle
