Good morning. Grace and peace to you.
Logos users, be sure to take a look at the Theology Sale, where you’ll find lots of great products marked down. Legacy Libraries are also currently marked down.
Today’s Kindle deals include some excellent titles like David Gibson’s The Lord of Psalm 23 and Costi Hinn’s God, Greed, and the Prosperity Gospel.
Bud on the Tracks
Andrew Roycroft describes an encounter with a man who was very unlike himself and tells how everyday proximity has its way of humanizing other people. “This gospel doesn’t collapse matters of heritage and cultural history, but it conjoins them through spiritual bonds that should banish racism and xenophobia from ever transgressing into the space that should be occupied by people worshipping and walking together as believers.”
I Blame the Parents
The headline is a mite provocative, but I think you’ll benefit from the article in which Stephen explains why he blames the intellectual parents of a particular individual.
Effectively Share the Gospel with Others
Paul Washer says this book “… encompasses all that the Christian and the church need to know to go forth and preach the gospel.” It makes complex concepts simple, addresses the fundamental questions of evangelism, and equips Christians to effectively share the gospel with others. (Sponsored)
Sex Before Marriage: Ideal vs. Reality?
Wes Bredenhof: “I sometimes wonder if the pendulum has swung in the completely opposite direction of so-called purity culture in the church. While it had the right idea of sexual purity before marriage, undoubtedly there were legalistic excesses (e.g. no holding hands).”
A Father Before the Altar
“We often find it much easier to offer ourselves on the altar, than to offer those closest to us. May the Lord give us all a burning revelation of his holiness, that would create in us a willing heart of sacrifice. And as we stand before the blazing heat of his glory, may we remember that all that passes through the heat in obedience will be purified.”
The Relationship Between Work & Rest
As this article explains, we are apt to reverse the proper relationship between work and rest. “the rest is so we can work, not the other way around. People who work hard for their career so they can enjoy ‘golden years’ of hobbies, sunning, travel, and a perfect lawn have perverted the relationship between rest and work.”
Presenting Our Bodies
Meredith Beatty: “Women’s bodies go through many changes as we mature, bear children, and then get older. We may feel disoriented and out of control, like our bodies just won’t do what we want them to do, or look the way they used to look. The culture takes advantage of our discontent and, dare I say, hatred of our bodies to sell us things, to deny we’re getting older, to convince us that there’s this one secret to unlock or hack our metabolism and once we find it, then we’ll be like our pre-pregnancy, pre-menopausal selves.”
Flashback: What’s the Purpose of … Sex?
While the great purpose in sex is the glory of God, it achieves this through three subordinate purposes: intimacy, offspring, and gratitude.
This is the only world in which you can suffer, so do it perfectly, trustingly, unselfishly, seeking through your grief to be better fitted to serve in Christ’s name and way those who need.
—Maltbie Davenport Babcock
