There’s a new legacy edition of Desiring God, and Westminster Books has it on special this week.
Today’s Kindle deals include lots of interesting books, including Esther Smith’s A Still and Quiet Mind which, to my knowledge, is on sale for the first time. I’ve also never seen Mack’s Strengthening Your Marriage on sale before.
(Yesterday on the blog: Go Ahead, Bring a Knife to a Gunfight)
It’s All Just Noise
“Life is made up of seasons, seasons made up of years, years made up of months, and those months are made up of weeks, days, hours, and fleeting moments. If we cushion our every waking hour with some distraction or other, do we not run the very real risk of forfeiting much of our lives?”
Don’t Do Everything for Your Kids
Alan Noble writes about the high expectations on parents. “Inevitably, every parent must fail to meet these expectations. In fact, every parent should fail to meet these expectations because many of them are disordered and bad for their children and for them! But the guilt can still linger because the pressure still lingers. The pressure to do more, to be more. To be a Super Parent who does everything for their children!”
98% of Christians Are Not Very Satisfied With Their Prayer Lives
Over half of those surveyed said it was due to distraction. What if, instead of being distracted from praying, we interrupted our day to pray? The PrayMore app was built to do exactly that. PrayMore is a new app for churches and ministries to share prayer requests with members and send reminders to pray. You can take it for a free 90-day test drive today. (Sponsored)
Parents, We’re Doing Too Much Again
Here’s another helpful article on parenting which strikes similar notes to the last one. “I’m writing this post gently because clearly I am a mom who tends to do too much. So if you feel like I’m getting preachy, I am, but I’m talking to people I fully understand, because I am one of you. We’re doing too much.”
Should We Rejoice When God Destroys Our Enemies?
John Piper draws some useful distinctions here as he tells whether it’s okay to rejoice when God destroys (or otherwise brings down) our enemies.
Jordan Peterson’s Achilles Heel
Joel Pelsue has some appreciation for Jordan Peterson, but focuses attention on his Achilles heel.
The Blessing of Godly Grandparents
Robert Carver highlights some of the blessings of godly grandparents.
Flashback: Past Them, Through Them, Over Them, Around Them
There is nothing in the will of God that is ultimately to the detriment of his children and so there is nothing in the providence of God that is ultimately to our harm. To the contrary, he has promised that all things—even very difficult things—are in some way working for our good.
God delights to exalt the humble and to humble the exalted.
—D.A. Carson
