Saturday Links
Curated links for your weekend reading:
Why I Keep Taking My Mother To Church
In recent weeks and months, my husband, my mother and I have claimed the last pew of the sanctuary, given its proximity to the foyer where we park her walker.
How Can Heaven Be Better Than Earth If We Are Married On Earth But Unmarried In Heaven?
I don’t think we are the only ones who find it hard to take joy in Jesus’s words that “in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven” (Matthew 22:30).
Resist the Voyeuristic Spirit of the Age
How should Christians respond to a mass-media environment where temptations to unedifying voyeurism are everywhere?
The announcement that Greta Gerwig has cast Meryl Streep to provide the voice of Aslan in the upcoming film adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew has generated no small amount of controversy.
What Conversion Looks Like In Messy People (Like Me) - 9Marks
Mez McConnell points out that the fruit of conversion looks different in everyone’s life, particularly for those who come out of difficult, or “messy,” backgrounds.
Concupiscence: Are Our Unholy Desires Sinful?
Concupiscence is a word neither well known today nor well understood.
Learning From King David’s Midlife Failure
How could such a thing happen to a man who seemed to have it all together, who had successfully passed through the temptations of his younger years, who seemed to have everything a minister could want?
I found great joy in preaching God’s Word—even though Sundays seemed to come every three days.
