Welcome to my (usually) bimonthly collection of noteworthy posts around the web! Hope you find something of interest here.
The Deadly Doctrines: Pattern and Protection.
How to Love When You Don’t Feel It.
Boring Church Services Saved My Life, HT to Challies.
Completely and Utterly Lost. “If something is lost, you can’t find it. So if my will is lost in God’s will, then it is indistinguishable from His.”
How Not to Help a Sufferer, HT to True Woman.
Killed For Christ in the Amazon. This is a very short (a little over 4 minutes) retelling of Jim Elliot and his five missionary coworkers who were killed by the people then know as Aucas, told by his daughter Valerie Shepard. At such a short telling, there is so much left out, but it’s a good intro for people who might not be familiar with the story, and it was on the BBC web site.
A Just Silence, HT again to Challies. “We’ve all felt the pressure to speak out about things that we know little to nothing about. The increasingly prevalent sentiment is that if Christians-and especially Christian leaders-don’t speak up on the hot button issues of the day, then they are complicit in fueling social injustice.”
A Letter to the Young, Gentle Christian Mama.
Saw this online and thought it was so appropriate for social media of any kind:
And this cracked me up:
Happy Saturday!
Stray Thoughts 