Here are some great reads that are bound to make your Thursday worthwhile:
- GET TO CHURCH EARLY. I think this article was written with me (Cornell) in mind. I’ve been getting to church and meetings quite late lately. This is not good. I need to change this. I am going to change this. Starting yesterday. How about you? Do you need to work on your church arrival time? Please read this post and find out why this is important.
- Yesterday I shared an interesting quote on marriage, by Francis Schaeffer. I thought this Boundless article on SETTLING might clarify some questions that many of us may have about the possibility of not having your ideal marriage: “Everybody settles when they decide to get married. Or nobody settles. Or is it both-and?”
- REPENTANCE VERSUS DEFENSIVENESS. Gavin: “Our default mode – in and out of the church – seems to be defensiveness. I know mine is. Nothing is more natural when we feel threatened by a criticism than to divert, distract, and downplay. Its as instinctive as flinching when a punch is coming.”
- Lastly, in PEACE-MAKING: A GOSPEL NECESSITY, Caroline Albanese exhorts us to pursue reconciliation as a Gospel imperative: “It’s a strange thing when you see believers in the church who will not speak to one another but talk to everyone else about the person with whom they have conflict. If God has reconciled us to himself through Christ, how can we not pursue reconciliation with one another?“
Have a blessed reading time and don’t forget to read your Bible!
Alien Citizen 