Good stuff: Blog catch-up version
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I've been catching up on my blogs, and while I prefer to just highlight something that stuck with me each day or every few days, y'all would be overwhelmed with all that because I would inundate you with a ton of posts. Instead, here's my list o' blogland links that I think are good stuff from the past couple weeks. You'll learn something. Perhaps something you didn't ever want to know (see item #3).
1. My thoughts on C.J. Mahaney's post about Kevin DeYoung's message (whew!) about being a part of and making a difference in your local church: It's simple. Bullet-pointed. And a darn good reminder of what we can do to be the church instead of just going to it.
2. John Piper's thoughts on the importance of the Bible (you can follow the link, but I've pasted the part that stood out to me below):
4. Powerful analogy about reading God's Word. Are you reading your Father's letters to you?
5. Two different posts from Pete Wilson: one about leadership (Leadership Demands You Put Up With The Bull, complete with a video of a bailing bullfighter) and a personal one that sums up our week at the beach
6. This one isn't revolutionary, but if you're trying to wrap your mind around the how-tos of family worship, read this.
7. Wild Olive Tees has a giveaway you can enter and win three free tees. I own at least eight of the fitted tees. Good stuff, y'all. Find out how to enter here.
8. On A Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, a couple of good posts from parents about vaccines (she doesn't think there's a relationship between them and her child's autism) and gluten-free, casien-free diets (she - a different poster - doesn't see the connection there either). Both are well written and thoughtful, stating their thoughts without cutting down those who cling to hope in opposing views. (And I'll be posting more about my thoughts on both in the future, so you'll have to wait to hear my side.)
9. Sacred Sandwich's funny about Farmville and the first chapters of Genesis. Secret Sandwich is kind of like Stuff Christian's Like but with comics instead of paragraphs. Hilarious, but with less reading necessary. (Who thought I'd ever call that a good thing?)
10. A funny and a serious from It's Almost Naptime. But PLEASE skip the serious one if blood talk makes you queasy. It doesn't usually for me, and it did a little in this post. But the message is still enough for me to share it.
11. And saving the best for last: Go here. Watch the video of what the prosperity gospel is like in Africa. And then read and see yourself (well, maybe not you, but I saw a lot of me) in the excuses of greedy Christians. Lee and I have been convicted a lot in this area recently - that I needed to resign from my part-time work for a variety of reasons (which I did last month) and that we should be giving more (even as our income is reduced). I'm not trying to say that this is the same lesson God has for you, just humbly admitting that we have a lot of room to grow in this area. And sharing something that I found to be good stuff.
1. My thoughts on C.J. Mahaney's post about Kevin DeYoung's message (whew!) about being a part of and making a difference in your local church: It's simple. Bullet-pointed. And a darn good reminder of what we can do to be the church instead of just going to it.
2. John Piper's thoughts on the importance of the Bible (you can follow the link, but I've pasted the part that stood out to me below):
I know this is going to be called bibliolatry, and people will say, "You worship the Bible, not God." Bologna on that. People who reject the Bible for God become idolaters. The only God worthy of knowing and loving is the one we meet in and discover through the Bible. I do want him to be everything, and the Bible is secondary compared to him; but if we try to say him or something about him without stressing the foundation of the Bible, then we will lose what we are trying to preserve after a generation.3. According to HoodMama, the backs of Daddy Long Legs (which technically are arachnids but not spiders) taste like black licorice. You just have to lick 'em. Who's gonna try now?
4. Powerful analogy about reading God's Word. Are you reading your Father's letters to you?
5. Two different posts from Pete Wilson: one about leadership (Leadership Demands You Put Up With The Bull, complete with a video of a bailing bullfighter) and a personal one that sums up our week at the beach
6. This one isn't revolutionary, but if you're trying to wrap your mind around the how-tos of family worship, read this.
7. Wild Olive Tees has a giveaway you can enter and win three free tees. I own at least eight of the fitted tees. Good stuff, y'all. Find out how to enter here.
8. On A Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, a couple of good posts from parents about vaccines (she doesn't think there's a relationship between them and her child's autism) and gluten-free, casien-free diets (she - a different poster - doesn't see the connection there either). Both are well written and thoughtful, stating their thoughts without cutting down those who cling to hope in opposing views. (And I'll be posting more about my thoughts on both in the future, so you'll have to wait to hear my side.)
9. Sacred Sandwich's funny about Farmville and the first chapters of Genesis. Secret Sandwich is kind of like Stuff Christian's Like but with comics instead of paragraphs. Hilarious, but with less reading necessary. (Who thought I'd ever call that a good thing?)
10. A funny and a serious from It's Almost Naptime. But PLEASE skip the serious one if blood talk makes you queasy. It doesn't usually for me, and it did a little in this post. But the message is still enough for me to share it.
11. And saving the best for last: Go here. Watch the video of what the prosperity gospel is like in Africa. And then read and see yourself (well, maybe not you, but I saw a lot of me) in the excuses of greedy Christians. Lee and I have been convicted a lot in this area recently - that I needed to resign from my part-time work for a variety of reasons (which I did last month) and that we should be giving more (even as our income is reduced). I'm not trying to say that this is the same lesson God has for you, just humbly admitting that we have a lot of room to grow in this area. And sharing something that I found to be good stuff.