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Greetings, friends! I’m preparing to transition to a “lighter” posting schedule as I work on some other projects. I’ve appreciated the opportunity to post more regularly this summer and hope at some point to share what I have learned by doing so. Increasingly, there may be days, like today, where only I share links to what others have written rather than also sharing an original post. I hope though to still post regularly, if not daily, and my prayer, as always, is that those who read will be strengthened and encouraged in their walk with God.

• Good Writing: 10 Short Maxims – The title summarizes it well. If you want to write well; here are 10 things to keep in mind.

• Sincere and Pure Devotion to Christ – “When you become a Christian, you become betrothed to Christ. And your whole life between now and the second coming of Christ is one long walk down the aisle. How many of you are taking your eyes off Christ to see if there are any other cute alternatives in the room?”

• The Morality of the Hellfire – “A fundamental demand of moral warfare is discrimination, which requires warfighters to make basic distinctions between combatants and non-combatants. Only combatants may be intentionally targeted and any likely harm to non-combatants must be minimized. The technological and operational characteristics of America’s Predator and Reaper programs have proved a boon for enhancing the U.S. military’s ability to discriminate so that civilians are nor endangered.”

• Why Don’t I Care?: Steps to Overcoming Spiritual Apathy – “Some of us may find ourselves in the midst of a long stretch of feeling fairly indifferent about the things of God. We know that Bible reading, prayer, church involvement, missions, evangelism, and many other means of grace should capture our hearts, but we just can’t seem to get excited about them. We are spiritually apathetic. And while we may be aware of our apathy, we often find ourselves feeling helpless to pull ourselves out of it. It’s one thing to diagnose a disease, but quite another to heal it.”

• Cast Your Burden Upon the Lord – It just so happened that I recently wrote about this same passage. But Tim Challies goes much more in depth. He writes, “God’s promise is not that he will take the burden from us, but that he will sustain us as we bear it. God’s promise is not that he will free us from what ails us—not yet, at least—, but that he will enable us to carry it for as long as he deems fit.”

Yesterday on the blog – Prayerfully Watching