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I don’t have many Kindle deals to share with you yet, but I’m certain there will be plenty in the morning once I’ve scoured the monthly deals.
Here Be Dragons: What Christians Need to Know About Romantasy
I had never heard of romantasy until the other day when someone mentioned the Empyrean novels to me. Kathryn Butler explains what you may need to know about the genre.
Own Your Faith
Jacob calls on young people to own their faith. “If God has gifted you with a healthy church and parents that love Christ, be so thankful! See your own faith as connected to theirs, but not dependent. They labored hard so that you would leave and be a beacon for Christ on your own. They desire to see you making godly choices. They want you to make the decision to wake up early and seek God’s face. The time for hand-holding is over. Your parents won’t stand before the judgement seat of Christ for you.”
Advice for Reading Romans After Decades of Experience
John Piper offers some tips for reading Romans, drawing upon his decades of experience in doing so.
Don’t Scratch the Itch
“Isn’t that how temptation is? The more you give in, the more temptation grows. Scratch the itch; the itch intensifies. Watch porn; the desire to watch porn grows. Lie about something; the more you find yourself caught in lies. Once you give into rage, the harder it is to turn away from it. This is how it is for any temptation.”
How Do We Correctly Confess Our Sins? (Video)
Here is some brief instruction on properly confessing our sins.
Just Do Nothing, and You’ll Ruin Everything
“As a general rule, I try not to yell at my children. But there are rare circumstances when I find myself with no other option…”
Flashback: What Tolkien Did So Well, What We Do So Poorly
One of the great strengths of Tolkien’s work is its grounding in history. One of the great weaknesses of the contemporary church is its detachment from its own history. Few of today’s Christians have a clear sense of how the church came to be.
Evil is not a principle in creation itself but is the willful distortion of good gifts into an arsenal deployed against God’s reign.
—Michael Horton
