Bits & Pieces (7/2/12)

  • How Would You Like To Wear Your Joy? – ” The everlasting joy of the redeemed is complete. It satisfies every longing, every holy desire. This joy was in the fellowship of the Godhead before the creation of the world. And in the end, it will rest upon us, and make us able to enjoy him with his own joy.”

 

  • The Busy Trap – Written from a decidedly non-Christian perspective (Proverbs for one has a lot to see against this gentleman’s view on idleness) the thesis of this post about why people are choosing busy lives is interesting. (H/T)

 

 

 

  • Calvinism and Enjoyable Christian Experience – “[B]iblical theology that exalts God in His sovereign grace and glory opens the door for man to enter into a quite different order of reality. Here is offered the experience of, and delight in, the rich pleasures of restoration to fellowship with God, transformation into the likeness of Christ, and anticipation of being with Christ where He is in order to see Him in His glory (John 17:24).
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Bits & Pieces (6/29/12)

  • Sanctification – 12 propositions from J.C. Ryle about sanctification.

 

  • Why the Dead Sea Scrolls Matter? – Ever been curious about why the Dead Sea Scrolls were important. This article helps explain how their discovery impacted the study of the Old and New Testament. (H/T)

 

 

  • Women, Callings, and Having It All – “We are to pursue God rather than to aspire after an image of female strength and independence on the one hand or an icon of domesticity carved with embellishments beyond what Scripture promises or prescribes on the other. Keeping our eyes on Christ can help us see through culturally fabricated mystiques—whether feminine or feminist.”

 

  • Toward Better Short-Term Missions – Awhile ago I shared a link to a post about what was wrong with short-term missions trips. This post proposes some corrective steps that can be taken.
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