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• Practicing Secrecy – Are we humbling trusting God to choose which good works He reveals?

• Christian Encouragement – Tim Challies lists four sources of Christian encouragement.

• Spend Time With Your Spouse – One marriage counselor is offering this revolutionary advice to couples – spend time together! However, how the time is spent is important.

• The Fight for Holiness – John Piper writes “So when the body is about to be led into a sinful action by some fear or craving, we are to take the sword of the Spirit and kill that fear and that craving. In my experience that means mainly severing the root of sin’s promise by the power of a superior promise.”

• Calculations of Grace – This little math lesson may be especially encouraging for those that have, or desire, big families. The number of people in a family increases the opportunities for conflict, but it also increases the opportunities for grace.

• Seeking to Reveal the Unseen – Randy Alcorn is interviewed about his job as a writer.

• If We Are The Justifiers – A powerful thought from Udo Middleman on the problem with setting our own standards to judge our own actions

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• How Fighting Sin Hurts – Ed Welch writes “There is a beauty in saying “no” and using those dormant muscles of self-control. And, because it is the Spirit’s power in you, you don’t become a dour ascetic, but discover hints of contentment and satisfaction. These are marks of the Spirit.”

• Using “Brokenness” to Describe Sin – Kevin DeYoung makes an excellent point about our propensity to use the word “brokenness” as a pseudonym for sin and suggests why we may want to reconsider our word choice.

• The Denial of Death – How do you respond when people seem to deny the eventuality of their own death? Matt Reagan shares his thoughts on why this topic is too important to left unaddressed.

• The Inconsistency Argument – Tim Keller tackles the topic of how to respond when people accuse Christians of inconsistency because they don’t keep all of the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament.