Bits & Pieces (9/19/12)

  • Confused Americans – ” A new study finds that the typical American believes the United States is far more religiously diverse than it actually is, overestimating the number of Mormons and Muslims and underestimating the number of Protestants.”


 

  • Puritan Wisdom on Seeking Marriage – It no doubt seems old-fashion to consider what the Puritans wrote about marriage, but this post contains several key insights that can be applied to those who desire to marry today. 

 

  • The Christian Celebrity – Tim Challies writes about a topic that we are probably too-familiar with but have likely not sat down to define. Along with his thoughts on the subject, he provides this helpful definition, “We cross into a culture of celebrity when we assume that merit in one field or one discipline necessarily carries that merit to other fields or disciplines.”

 

  • Shopping and False Intimacy – “In a world where pastors tweet and congregations have Facebook accounts, it’s easy to think an intimate relationship exists when all we really have are some dots of data loosely connected by our own assumptions and personal preferences.” (H/T)

 

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Bits & Pieces (9/18/12)


  • 4 Gambles That Turned Into Job Offers – I’m sure there are a number of creative techniques that didn’t turn out the way their creators intended, but here are four non-conventional ways people acquired jobs.



  • Motherhood Is Not Boring – Gloria Furman shares the biblical “paradigm for us to think about motherhood that is outside of our worldly idea of finding a balanced middle ground between Resentment and Idolatry.”


  • Too Tough on Guys Who Are Trying – Josh Harris apparently gave a sermon like many I have heard of which contained an exhortation to single young men to “”put down the X-box, grow up, pursue a wife, and glorify God in that relationship” (or words to that effect).” He shares a thoughtful response he received from one listener.

  • One Trick Pony – A reminder that “God wants us to put our trust in him, not in explanations.”


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