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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

3 Helpful Instructions on Keeping a Journal – Tim Challies
…a simple plea to Christians to maintain a journal that records specific instances of God’s compassion and care.

How I Started Praying the Bible– Donald Whitney
I simply spoke to the Lord those things prompted verse-by-verse in my reading of the psalm. If a verse didn’t suggest anything to pray, I would go to the next verse. 

3 Compelling Reasons Why We Must Deal with Our Sinful Anger – Robert Jones (BCC)
Why should we seek to uproot our sinful anger and replace it with godly fruit? In one sense, we must deal with it simply because God commands it…

How Should Christians Comment Online?– Jon Bloom (DG)
…we must heed Jesus’s warning: “on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak” (Matthew 12:36). This caution makes commenting serious business to God.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!

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Here are some helpful posts on the Planned Parenthood video and the atrocities so chillingly discussed over a salad:

Planned Parenthood Uses Late-Term Abortions to Harvest Fetal Organs – Justin Taylor

Planned Parenthood: How Much Longer?– Jonathan Parnell (DG)

Planned Parenthood and the Atrocity of Corpse-Selling – Russell Moore

“A Lot of People Want Intact Hearts These Days” — Planned Parenthood, Abortion, and the Conscience of a Nation – Albert Mohler

How to Talk to Your Pro-choice Friends About the ‘Fetal Parts’ Video – Joe Carter (TGC)

The Devil is in the Details – Erik Raymond

This Kind Cannot Be Driven Out by Worldview Training and Legislation: The Place of Prayer and Fasting for the Pro-Life Movement – Justin Taylor

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Here are some good posts for parents on teaching the Bible to your children:

How to Soak the Next Generation in God’s Word – Jani Ortlund

5 Simple Ways to Teach Your Kids Theology – Aaron Earls

Helping Children Benefit from the Sermon – Erik Raymond

Teach Your Child to Have Devotions – Ryan Higginbottom

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Here are some more helpful posts to help Christians think through the recent Supreme Court’s decision on “same-sex marriage.”

Everything Has Changed and Nothing Has Changed: The Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage – Albert Mohler

Why the Gay Marriage Debate Was Over in 1950 – Joel Miller

How Christians Can Show Countercultural Resolve on Marriage – Jennifer Marshall (TGC)

Dear Christian Friends: Remember you are not Home – Erik Raymond (TGC)

How Should You Talk to Your Children About Same-Sex Marriage? – Russell Moore

40 Questions for Christians Now Waving Rainbow Flags – Kevin DeYoung

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It has been a busy week with VBS, so I haven’t had time to blog.  But I’m back, and here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

What We Need Is More Knowledge – John Stott (via Tim Challies)

Breaking Free from the Spell of Fantasy – Jon Bloom (DG)

Well-Planned, Hard, Sweat-Inducing Prayer and Work – Joel Beeke (via Tim Challies)

12 Questions for a Six-Month Spiritual Checkup – Chuck Lawless

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day worshiping our Great King!

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Here is an overview and some helpful initial responses to yesterday’s Supreme Court “same-sex marriage” decision.  Don’t miss the last two especially.

Supreme Court rules gay couples nationwide have a right to marry – Robert Barnes (WP)

Here are the key excerpts on religious liberty from the Supreme Court’s decision on gay marriage – Sarah Pulliam Bailey (WP)

Why the church should neither cave nor panic about the decision on gay marriage – Russell Moore (WP)

What Your Church Needs to Know—and Do—About the Court’s Marriage Ruling – Erik Stanley (TGC)

But What Does The Bible Say? – Kevin DeYoung

So-Called Same-Sex Marriage: Lamenting the New Calamity – John Piper (DG)

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Here are some good posts primarily aimed at young adults, but with some good wisdom for all of us:

Students! Seize the Summer to Grow in Godliness, Not Decline in Laziness – Geoff Kirkland
If you don’t plan you’ll fail. If you don’t busy yourself with the right things you’ll make yourself busy with time-wasters.

Letter to Teens Unboxing Their First Smartphone – Tim Challies (DG)
It is an incredible piece of technology that can be used in many different ways. It can be used to do so many good things, but if you are not wary, it can also be used to do an awful lot of bad things. So before you power it on for the first time, I think it would be wise to invest just a few minutes in thinking and planning.

Lessons For Young Men – Geoff Kirkland
Our world desperately needs men. Real men. Manly men. Godly men. Holy men. Courageous men. Men who fear no one because they fear their God more.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your local church!

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I was talking to some other pastors this week about same-sex marriage, and we noted the great confusion on the Biblical Christian teaching on this issue, especially in the views of our young people.  So here are a few helpful posts to help us keep thinking through the issue:

Five Questions for Christians Who Believe the Bible Supports Gay Marriage – Kevin DeYoung

Should We Support Gay Marriage? NO – Wolfhart Pannenberg

The Solemnization of Matrimony – Kevin DeYoung