Wisdom from the book of Job.
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An appreciative review of the humorous and serious book Blessed are the Misfits by Brant Hansen.
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A poem celebrating God’s wisdom in creating us male and female.
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Despite how common it is in Christian lingo, sometimes when God closes a door he doesn’t intend to open a window.
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Here are 12 quotes from Tony Reinke’s new book 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You.
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Brant Hansen, author and radio host, wrote the foreword to our book More People to Love.
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Acquiring your worldly treasure won’t satisfy you. It may give you temporary satisfaction. But that's it. The pleasure that Jesus offers begins now and lasts forever. [Guest Post by Cody Swartz.]
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This Christmas, my hope and prayer is that our hearts will explode with praise over the salvation that comes through Jesus. If this is to happen, first we need to reckon seriously with the darkness within us.
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Except for the occasional post, I'm taking a rest from social media. My heart is frazzled. Here’s how it got this way.
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Husbands, keep praising your wife. Do it again and again. It matters.
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Talking about the difference between “consumer” and “covenant” relationships is a helpful way to get at the deeper meaning of marriage, that is, the gospel.
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Over the years, I’ve attended a number of men’s retreats, even helping to organize a few of them. But I’ve never been asked to be the main speaker for one—until now. Recently, my former church asked me to speak at their retreat. It’s coming up the first weekend in August.
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Speaking gossip comes easy; it’s resisting gossip that’s hard. But, by the grace of God and for the glory of God, we have to do it. Matthew C. Mitchell’s book Resisting Gossip is a good book to help us recognize and resist this common sin.
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Sin is powerful, and when left untreated, it kills. The solution is to bring it into the light of the gospel.
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In two days, millions of people will celebrate Thanksgiving. We’ll sit around a table, we’ll eat a hearty meal, and we’ll (hopefully) express our gratitude. This is a good thing. It’s healthy to remind ourselves of the many blessings that we have received. But this Thanksgiving, don’t make the mistake of not knowing who to thank.
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The Joy Project by Tony Reinke was released earlier this week. You can download the book free of charge at Desiring God. Here are nine of my favorite passages in the book.
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I love Chipotle. I love chocolate. And I love authors who use words well. This week I read something that helped me appreciate all of these, and I think you should read it too.
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What would it be like to watch a movie that didn’t have a musical soundtrack? It wouldn’t be as powerful, that’s for sure. Consequently, it’s the same with ‘the words we say’ and ‘the lives we live’—they go better together.
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Becoming a mother is to enlist in a war. And what makes this war so difficult, is that the enemies are not always obvious. MOM ENOUGH is written by women that know much about the difficulties of this war, but who also know about how to win.
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Whether you want them our not, you will have them--lots of them. But how will you use them?
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