It’s Monday!
Monday’s Top Read:
How Can I Fight Sin Without Losing Sight of Christ?
The “Ask Pastor John” Piper articles from Desiring God are a gem, including this one. Why? Because it is easy for it to happen. And he has done a lot of these over the years, so I encourage you to listen to them!
Some Lost God While Serving God
“Lewis helps me to answer this question by reminding me that all means must die. “Every natural love [including the love of teaching] will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried” (105). If, as Jesus says, following him means taking up my cross daily, then it means that every day my love of thinking and teaching and preaching must die.”
Daniel’s 5 Responses to Persecution
“So if a church is in a state or country that views corporate worship as in that sense optional, how should they respond?”
While it’s not tantamount to persecution, this article is good food for thought.
Why we Need the Church to Discipline Our Politics
“Applying discipleship to our politics is neither easy nor intuitive, but some churches are developing worthy habits. Some churches find that corporate prayer provides frequent opportunities to enunciate pastoral attitudes and model the use of biblical language, all while praying about cultural and political issues in a nonpartisan way.”
Tolerance Is Not Approval
My friend Josh hits this one out of the park: “If tolerance means that we discuss our disagreements with civility: deal. If tolerance means that we engage without the use of logical fallacies such as straw man and ad-hominem arguments, I’m game. If tolerance means approval, someone else said it better than me: “Yeah, that’s gonna be a ‘no’ from me, dawg.”“