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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

How To Pray When Your Soul Is Bone Dry – Tim Challies
There are times when your soul feels bone dry, when even opening your mouth to pray seems an impossibility. What do you do?

You Can Change – Tim Chester (Crossway)
Jesus came to remake us in God’s image. Jesus took our brokenness, our hatred, and our curse on himself on the cross. He took the penalty of our sin and in its place gave us a new life and new love.  God is in the business of change. He’s interested in making us like Jesus.

Don’t Waste Your Summer – Kevin DeYoung
What can we do to make the most of June, July, and August? Here are twenty suggestions.

10 Reasons Why the Church Gathers – Casey Lewis (FTC)
As Christians, we should all desire to gather together with one another as often as possible. As motivation, here are ten reasons why gathering regularly with the church is important.

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

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

7 Ways to Fight Distraction During Prayer – Gavin (Soliloquium)

Discontentment Says Something about You, Not Your Circumstances – Philip Graham Ryken (Crossway)

Beware the Busyness of Summer Break – Dave Zuleger (DG)

Why I Sit at the Front – Tim Chester

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

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Making the Most of Your Bible Reading – Godwin Sathianathan (FTC)
God desires to speak something to you. He has something for you in His Word for your particular day. Do you believe that? Are you eagerly anticipating what He might say to you today?

3 Truths to Speak To Your Temptation – Tim Challies
Sin promises joy but brings pain, sin promises happiness but brings shame, sin promises life but brings death, sin promises freedom but brings guilt, sin promises heaven but brings hell. It is always, always a lie.

Play Hard – Jared Wilson
We need to remember to play hard. We need to take having fun seriously. This means….being mindful in our rest, play, and fun that these things are gifts from God meant to help us celebrate being made in God’s image as Creator and project in some way the creative story he is telling with the universe.

Ten Things I Learned at Church on Sunday – Erik Raymond
God met us as a church in the ordinary and showed us his extraordinary faithfulness, grace, beauty, and power.

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

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

Jerry Bridge’s Seven Standout Spiritual Lessons – Tim Challies
Lesson One: The Bible is meant to be applied to specific life situations. This includes both God’s commands to be obeyed and His promises to be relied upon…

Why Patience Doesn’t Come Naturally – Sam Storms
First, impatience is the product of selfish entitlement in the human soul. I get impatient because I actually believe I deserve better…

How to Kill Sinful Anger– Jon Bloom (DG)
All sinful anger is hard to fight. It’s a selfish, hot-blooded passion our flesh enjoys indulging. But I find it particularly difficult to fight the sinful anger that I feel I have a right to feel…

No Normal Sundays: Interview with Bob Kauflin– David Mathis (DG)
Worshiping Jesus together with his church is an awesome privilege…

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

4 Ways to Cling to the Lord – Sam Storms

Four Warning Signs You May Be Wandering from the Truth – Colin Smith

Who Will You Serve and Surprise This Week? – Tim Challies

Hearing the Voice of the Lord in Your Pastor’s Sermon – Danny Hyde

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day!

Passion Points

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Here are some good posts for your weekend reading:

4 Ways to Cling to the Lord – Sam Storms (Crossway)
The temptation to forget God is always present. But there is a way to maintain one’s devotion to the Lord. Joshua’s counsel in Joshua 23:6-11 is especially helpful and can be summarized using four As.

How to Resist Temptation’s Mirage Moment– Jon Bloom (DG)
Temptation is a disorienting, defiling experience when evil is presented to us as good. Destruction comes dressed up to look like happiness.

5 Things You Can Give to God Every Day – Tim Challies
The heart of productivity is glorifying God by serving others. It is carefully and deliberately considering the things God calls us to do, and deploying all that we’ve got for his glory and the good of people made in his image. It is giving back to him what he has entrusted to each one of us.

Don’t Be Embarrassed by Your Ordinary Church – Erik Raymond (For the Church)
Is your church ordinary? Small? Well, my Christian friend, if it is preaching the gospel and endeavoring to help others to know and follow Jesus then it is not insignificant. It is powerfully important and surpassingly glorious.

Hope you have a great Lord’s Day with your ordinary church and your extraordinary God!