Today most of us will join with other Christians to worship our God together. As we do so, it is fitting that we consider just how much Christ loves his church. Dustin Benge does that well in this brief excerpt from The Loveliest Place. To grasp Christ’s love for his church is to plumb depths that have no bottom, find a treasure with no bounds, and climb heights that have no peak. As believers, we never move past the love …
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May God bless you as you worship and serve him this weekend. Westminster Books has a sale on a new book by Dane Ortlund. There are some new Kindle deals to look at today. (Yesterday on the blog: What Kind of Men Does the Church Need?) Laura to Jake and back again This is a fascinating story that tells of one women’s transition and de-transition. Painful Surprises and the Emmaus Road This article is about those times when “something unexpected and unwelcome …
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Masculinity has become complicated. At least, it has become difficult to be confident about what it means to be a man—to be a man as God has designed men to be. The culture has plenty to say about masculinity that is toxic, but far less to say about masculinity that is good and honoring. We hear more about women becoming men than men simply being men. And many wonder: What are men meant to be and what are men supposed …
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The Lord be with you and bless you today. Today’s Kindle deals include a couple of good picks. In Defense of the Gender Binary “The plausibility structure of the gender binary is losing its grip on contemporary consciousness. And, it’s not just in contemporary culture writ large, but we are seeing and experiencing shifts in the Church.” A Time to Hustle & A Time to Stroll “Maybe it was the pandemic slow down, or just people getting fed up with …
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Grace and peace to you today. (Yesterday on the blog: The Joy of Forgetting What You Need To Remember) An Open Letter to the Christian Disheartened by Ongoing Temptation You may appreciate this letter from D.A. Carson and John Woodbridge. What Exactly Does 1 Timothy 2:12 Teach? “Applying 1 Timothy 2:12 in the local church setting is tricky: ‘I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.’ What exactly …
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