Flashback Friday - August 15
Gleanings from my reading this week
Here are some things I encountered this week that blessed me. I hope something here encourages, challenges, and blesses you, too. At the end you will see a comment button. Please comment and let me know what blessed you. That will help me provide you with better content going forward.
Worth Repeating
"Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it." — Richard Baxter, 17th Century English Puritan Pastor as quoted on X.com by Jason Allen, President, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.
“God’s truth doesn’t need a makeover—it needs a mouthpiece.” — Larry Purvis, New City Church, Macon
“The world is so in love with lies that the truth feels like hate.” — Shane Pruitt, North American Mission Board
"The easiest act of obedience for a Christian is gathering with the church for worship on Sunday. It only requires that you get up, get dressed, and get there. Yet, amazingly, many Christians today will not do the easiest thing—and wonder why they struggle with the difficult things." — Hershael York, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
"I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself." – D. L. Moody
Worth Reading:
The best way to read this article is pausing after each paragraph and pondering what you read. This article goes beyond punctuality and challenges to the core our fundamental attitudes about worship.
Why Being Late to Church Matters, Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition
Sometimes it seems as though God gives us a raw deal. The bad guys get the breaks and the good guys get broken. This article helps give us perspective from treasured Psalm.
Why Does Life Seem So Unfair? — Philip Graham Ryken, Crossway
Just a few verses before he describes the fruit of the Spirit, Paul gives us a different kind of list—the works of the flesh. What does sowing to the flesh really look like in everyday life? Here are seven signs you’re sowing to the flesh and what to do about it.
7 Signs You’re Sowing to the Flesh and What to Do About It — Portia Collins.
Worth Seeing:
