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Don’t Say God Is Silent With Your Bible Closed
“I don’t know who said or shared it first, but it’s clear this simple statement resonates with many, at least it has with me. These ten words rebuke our fear that God might be inactive or uncaring in the brokenness and messiness of our lives, and reminds us that he cares, he sees, and he speaks. But too often, we’re just not listening.”
Livestreaming Violence
This article points out some of the ways that livestreaming has forever changed the way we view violence.
Take a Quiz Explaining Your Faith to a Muslim
My gratitude goes to Zondervan for sponsoring the blog this week with “Take a Quiz on Explaining Your Faith to a Muslim.” I know some tried to take the quiz earlier in the week and were unable to. The quiz service is now working properly!
10 Things You Should Know About the Immutability of God
“Some see the concept of immutability as a threat to the biblical portrait of God who appears in some sense to change. Others are equally concerned that a careless tampering with this attribute of God will reduce him to a fickle, unfaithful, and ultimately unworthy object of our affection and worship. It is imperative, therefore, that we proceed cautiously, and yet with conviction, in articulating these ten truths about divine immutability.”
Southern Baptists and the Quest for Theological Identity
Al Mohler: “Our commitment to regenerate church membership, the baptism of believers only, and our understanding of the nature of the church gives Baptists a unique voice in the face of disappearing cultural Christianity. I honestly believe that in coming years evangelicals will increasingly look to Southern Baptists due to the ecclesiological crises created by the collapse of cultural Christianity. The coming generation will urgently need the wisdom and biblical conviction of Baptists on these issues.”
This Day in 1845. 171 years ago today, devotional writer Sarah Flower Adams died at age 43. She published The Flock at the Fountain, containing children’s hymns including “Nearer, My God, To Thee.” *
Bird Brains
If you want to know how to reduce concussions, why not study the woodpecker. “If someone could figure out how woodpeckers do it—they slam their beaks into trees thousands of times per day, generating forces far beyond what most people experience in car wrecks—then maybe we could better protect soldiers.”
Flashback: Why We Love to Read
Sometimes you need to do a lot of reading to come away with one really good idea. Some books yield nothing but nonsense; some yield nothing but ideas you have come across a thousands times before. But then, at last, you find that one that delivers. There is such joy in it. Such reward.
The louder Satan roars, the more proof you shall have of Christ’s love.
—C.H. Spurgeon
