Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Exceptionally Ordinary – Borrowed Light
4 Things to Remember When Reading the Bible – Matt Tully (Crossway)
4 Really Good Money Questions – Tim Challies
Prepare for Corporate Worship – Geoffrey Kirkland
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day prepared to worship our great King!
No one is changed by an unread Bible.– Donald Whitney
in Spiritual Disciplines For The Christian Life
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
Doctrine is the map that guides us on our cross-country journeying through the thousand-odd pages of the Bible, on the one hand, and the complexities of godly living, on the other.
– J. I. Packer in Taking God Seriously
Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:
Five Things Every Christian Should be Doing with God’s Word – Michael J. Kruger
17 Ways to Meditate on Scripture – Donald Whitney (via Justin Taylor)
Of Justice and Generosity – Kevin DeYoung
3 Choices in How We Respond to God’s Kingdom Agenda – Trevin Wax
Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!
Here are some good posts about the Word in our corporate worship:
The Benefits of Sitting Under Expository Preaching – Eric Davis (Cripplegate)
The Wonder of the Word in Corporate Worship – Matt Boswell (DG)
3 big ideas and 7 tips on how to read the Bible in church – Matthias Media
The Bible is to be approached with reverence, handled with care and prayer, and studied, not to satisfy curiosity in any of its forms, but to deepen responsive fellowship with God who made us, loves us, seeks us out, and offers us pardon, peace, and power for righteousness through Jesus Christ our Lord.
– J. I. Packer in Taking God Seriously
Some wag remarked that the worst dust storm in history would happen if all church members who were neglecting their Bibles dusted them off simultaneously.
– Donald Whitney
in Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life
Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live….
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life;
whoever comes to me shall not hunger,
and whoever believes in me shall never thirst….
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.”
And let the one who hears say, “Come.”
And let the one who is thirsty come;
let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
– Isaiah 55:1-3a, John 6:35, Revelation 22:17 (ESV)
The fact that Paul singles out homosexual relations as a conspicuous example of the human heart suppressing the truth and turning from God suggests that we must not soft-pedal as no big deal what the Bible underlines as particularly egregious rebellion. And it means we must face squarely the serious indictment God’s Word levies against the individuals and churches that “give approval to those who practice them” (v. 32). It is no little mistake in God’s eyes to encourage and support what harms our fellow creatures and dishonors our Creator.
– Kevin DeYoung on Romans 1 in What Does The Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality
Brian J. Mikul 