My gratitude goes to Ligonier Ministries for sponsoring the blog this week. They wanted to be sure you know about some of their new products, including the excellent Field Guide on Gender and Sexuality. Canadians will want to know that Ligonier is now partnering with Reformed Book Services to distribute their resources on this side of the border.
Today’s Kindle deals include a few interesting options. Also, I noticed there are a couple of good ones that are going to go live tomorrow and be available for just 24 hours, so maybe check in sometime on Sunday if that’s of interest.
(Yesterday on the blog: Is the Bible Actually Trustworthy?)
We Stopped Catechising
T.M. Suffield considers what the church may have lost when it (largely) stopped catechizing. Importantly, he is referring not only to children, but to adults as well.
Your Pain Has an End Date
Vaneetha Rendall Risner comforts us that our pain has an end date.
The Sexual Revolution’s Great Lie: You’ll Always Be Young
Jonathon Van Maren lays out the Sexual Revolution’s great lie. “The Sexual Revolution has always depended on a concurrent rise in technology to make its false promises appear attainable. First it was the Pill, which produced staggeringly high abortion rates and a pandemic of sexually transmitted diseases; now, it is reproductive technology that promises young women they can delay trying to have children until they are on the verge of menopause after decades on birth control.”
Five Things You May Not Know About Shem
When you consider the extremely long lifespans of the first centuries of human existence, you realize how much some of the Bible’s key characters must have overlapped with one another. You also realize how many generations of their descendants they would have seen. This article covers that and more.
An Odd Detail That Points to Christ’s Cosmic Reign
“Good stories often include odd details. But what first strikes the reader as odd or random may later turn out to be interesting and insightful.” Benjamin Gladd provides an example of one of these from the book of Mark.
Broken Cisterns
“We have been given God the Spirit to indwell us, to empower us for the Christian life, but far too often we attempt to walk around in our own strength. We are unprayerful, unthankful, and unconcerned about God’s direction in His Word…”
Flashback: Who Gave You The Right?
The sanctified instinct of the Christian heart should not be to discourage but to encourage, not to further demoralize other people but to give them strength, to give them heart, to give them courage.
Though you hoard up wealth, gold is nothing but dust to a dying man.
—C.H. Spurgeon
