I’m grateful to the Cornerstone Broadcasting Conference for sponsoring the blog this week. You will want to consider their conference that is coming up in September and featuring speakers like H.B. Charles Jr., Todd Friel, Ken Ham, and others.
Today’s Kindle deals include a nice variety of books like Urban Legends of the Old Testament and Making Room for Her.
(Yesterday on the blog: The Idol of Popularity)
Honoring Those We’ve Fallen Out With
“The very human temptation after falling out with other Christians is to attempt to memory hole them. We try to speak and live as if they were not a significant part of our story. This is true even of church leaders and missionaries, who are, sadly, not at all immune to serious conflicts that lead to parting ways with formerly close friends and colleagues.”
More Barbaric Than the Incas
Jonathon Van Maren points out a way in which our society is more barbaric than the ancient Incas. “The Incas and other Mesoamericans sacrificed human beings to their gods because they believed that children were the most valuable sacrifice they could make. Every day across the post-Christian West, we kill our children with pills, forceps, and suction aspirators as if they mean nothing at all.”
Is Seminary Worth the Cost?
Many people wonder whether seminary is worth the cost. Guy Richard explains why, at least in his case, it very much was.
Five Questions for Preachers
Here is a whole series of questions that should be meaningful to preachers. “I have found these categories helpful in both self-evaluation and also in the training and equipping of others, especially upcoming preachers.”
The Young and the Sexless
It is obviously a good thing that young, unmarried people are having less sex than in the past. Yet the reasons they are doing so are very concerning and prove a deep malaise within society.
The Seasons of Anxiety
Pierce writes about those seasons of life in which we experience anxiety. “We love to think we are seasonal souls. With deal with anxiety, with grief, with trauma. And then we say, ‘Well, I’m so glad that’s over with. Now I can get on with life.’ But that was life. And that will be life. We don’t just put seasons behind us. Similar seasons that will require the same maturity, humility, faith, and healing are on the horizon.”
Flashback: The Thing About Light and Momentary
…as we bear these burdens and endure these sorrows, as we feel their pain and cry our tears, we fix our eyes not on what is seen but on what is unseen, not on this day but on that one.
One generation believes something. The next assumes it. And the third will forget and deny it.
—D.A. Carson
