I’m grateful to B&H for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about their new Church History Handbook. It’s a beautiful and informative book so be sure to give it a look!
Today’s Kindle deals include a few commentaries and other good books.
(Yesterday on the blog: Keep Calm and Stay Friends)
The Power of One Bitter Thought
Even one bitter thought can have great power. “A weed starts off very small, just like any other plant. It may seem harmless in the beginning but if a weed is never properly dealt with, it has potential to destroy a whole garden. A bitter thought starts the same.”
Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean (Everlasting Praise)
The Gettys and Sandra McCracken have just released a rewritten and lengthened adaptation of “Here Is Love, Vast as the Ocean.” I think you’ll enjoy it!
The Reluctant Polemicist
I really appreciate what Kyle Borg says here about polemics. “One of the most embarrassing moments of my life happened when I was a new seminary student. I had scheduled lunch with one of my professors, excited to talk theology and ask about preaching. As I got into his car and was buckling up, he said in his strong Scottish accent, ‘Kyle, I’ve seen how you interact on social media. If there were a degree for being argumentative, you’d be at the top of the class.’ I wanted to run, but the car was already moving, and I was stuck.”
Strange Familiarity
“Suffering disrupts the normal. We feel disruption even in the small things like taking care of your children becoming taking care of their gravesite. The route toward their grave replaces the once familiar route to their school or sports field. Seeing their friends and the ones they are close to swaps with passing by the names of the other headstones that are now the ones close to your kiddo.”
Jubilee: Much More and Much Better Than a Holy Year
Leonardo De Chirico has written an e-book on the Roman Catholic year of Jubilee. It is available as a free download from Gospel-Centered Discipleship. I was glad to write a brief foreword for it.
Advice on Resisting Temptation
Casey shares “two insights that have helped me immensely in my own battle with temptation.” They are helpful insights.
Flashback: Procrastination Is a Failure to Love
…on those hard days when I face a list of many tasks, or on those days when I know I have to accomplish my least-favorite tasks, I challenge myself to simply love. To do is to love, to procrastinate is to fail to love.
The gospel is not wishful thinking. It’s not just optimistic or sentimental uplift. It’s the announcement of a fact.
—Michael Horton
