Bits & Pieces (6/5/12)

  • Four Lessons from Forty Years – Tim Challies writes about four lessons he has learned from his parents as they celebrate forty years of marriage.

 

  • First Things – Carolyn Mahaney asks whether we would do first in the day accurately reflects what we say we value most?

 

  • Exchanging Fear for Fear –  In this insightful posts about whether we fear God or man, Kevin DeYoung writes “[w]e will not fear God more than people unless we know the truth about God and people.”

 

  • Principles & Practices – Mark Altrogge writes about something that I’ve also tackled here on the importance of not taking a biblical principle and transforming it to a particular practice that we prefer (unless the Bible specifically commands a specific practice.)

 

  • Digging Deeper in God’s Word – John Piper’s letter to a 13-year old girl on how to go deeper in God’s Word is instructive for Christians of all ages.