I’m grateful to Boyce College for sponsoring the blog this week. They want to help young Christians answer this question: How Do You Know If God Is Calling You?.
Today’s Kindle deals include a whole collection of excellent works by Derek Kidner.
Yesterday on the blog, I shared a review of Christopher Ash’s new book Not Old, Not Young, Not Done. If you’re in (or near) your 50s or 60s, I highly recommend it. Meanwhile, Westminster Books has a deal on a book meant to help you better understand trauma.
Why Dads Still Matter
J. Warner Wallace: “During my years working the gang detail in Los Angeles County, I met countless young men and women caught up in the world of gangs. Over time, a single theme emerged—one that cut across backgrounds, neighborhoods, and stories. Nearly every gang member I encountered suffered from the same affliction: a profound lack of dad.”
Character in Absurd Times
I appreciate how Joshua Heavin draws upon our favorite characters in LOTR in this article about character.
Don’t Take the Supper at Youth Camp or Get Baptized in the Jordan
It’s important to consider why it would be unwise to take Lord’s Supper at youth camp or get baptized in the Jordan (despite so many Christians doing so).
How Can I Increase My Love for God’s Word?
Kenneth Berding offers a whole list of practical, biblically-based ways to increase your love for God’s Word.
Gen Z Is Spiritually Hungry. Let’s Get Ready to Feed Them.
“The anxious generation needs what the church has to offer—hope, embodied connection, and stability in a tumultuous time. Thankfully, it also appears to be what they want.”
Welcome Them in: Extending Gospel Hospitality to Our Children
This is an interesting way to think about children remaining in worship services rather than attending programs: Putting it under the banner of hospitality.
Flashback: Positive Purity
Sexual purity has two components to it: the turning away and the turning toward, the stopping of one kind of behavior and the beginning of another.
It is a sweet mercy to have to go through the floods, if some filthiness may thereby be removed.
—C.H. Spurgeon
