Why so many Christians never grow up: Christopher Cook says, “Sound doctrine without obedience leads to intellectual pride. Obedience without truth leads to misguided zeal. Community without truth becomes sentimentality. Truth without love becomes harshness. But when truth, obedience, and love converge under the authority of Christ, something remarkable begins to happen: believers begin to grow up.”
Spaghetti again: Andrea Sanborn reflects on the faithful life in the mundane. She says, “I’m like the children of Israel, whining over the repetitive, glorious provision of manna in the wilderness. We have lost our appetite, they moaned; we never see anything but this manna! (Numbers 11:6)”
What are you angry about today? Chris Martin says, “It doesn’t really matter what it is. The bigger question is this: Do you have faith that God can handle the object of your anger?”
Aim high. Repent often: Trevin Wax points out, “Hypocrisy among Christians is real, but the outrage it produces is, in a twist of irony, itself Christian. You won’t find a fiercer critic of religious pretense than Jesus himself.”
What do Americans consider morally wrong? It seems that having an affair is about the only thing we agree on these days. A good reminder that morality is not decided by public opinion.
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