Aging with Grace
This article is fantastic! “Proverbs says Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised and Gray hair is a crown of glory. After all, isn’t my age part of God’s sovereign plan for my life? He decided the year of my birth. Not a decade before. Not a decade after. And if every hair is numbered, that includes the ones that are no longer black.”
Is It Ever Okay for a Christian To Lie?
Here’s a simple question that requires a long answer.
Parents Cry ‘Foul’ as Doctors and Educators Ignore Them
David French on transgenderism: “Human experience simply doesn’t conform to ideological models, and the far worse damage is done when we try to impose radical ideology onto the complexities of individual, troubled lives. In reality, people are far more vulnerable to suggestion and fashion than the Left lets on. Rather than affirming an immutable identity, our culture is ratifying and rendering permanent what often amounts to little more than a troubled youthful phase — one that is subject to all the whims of fashion that mark any other cultural trend.”
3 Pieces of Marriage Advice from Spurgeon’s Mother-In-Law
“Charles Spurgeon abandoned his fiancée on a Sunday afternoon. After lunch, a carriage took the betrothed couple from Susannah’s house in St. Ann’s Terrace to Kennington where Charles would preach.” That led to her receiving some invaluable advice.
The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
There are some solid suggestions here. (As usual, replace “meditation” with “devotions.”)
This Day in 1662. 354 years ago today, Blaise Pascal, French scientist, polemicist, and Christian apologist, died at age 39. *
Lost in Light
This video shows how much of the night sky we lose through light pollution.
God Remembers You
There is real comfort here: “The King of kings, whose deeds are worthy of being proclaimed among the nations, remembers the weak. He never forgets. His mind is a veritable steel-trap. He knows the conditions and concerns of his people. How encouraging is this?”
4 Interesting Facts about the Production of the KJV
George Guthrie offers 4 things you may not know about this most revered of translations.
Flashback: What Will Be the Cost to the Church?
What will be the cost to the church if young men continue to give themselves to pornography? What do we, as Christians, stand to lose if so many of our young men continue to spend their teens and twenties in the pursuit of pornographic pleasure?
Unconditional love does not equal unconditional approval of my behavior.
—Christopher Yuan