Blogs
Safe Schools, Gender Non-Conformity, and Common Sense | TGC
Here’s Kevin DeYoung’s letter to the Michigan State Board of Education about its plans for LGBTQ students in Michigan schools, including allowing students to choose which changing and restroom facilities to use.
Switching Fields: From Professional Soccer to Pastoral Ministry
Former Chelsea and England player, Gavin Peacock, narrates his transition from the life of a professional soccer player to pastoring a Reformed Baptist church in Calgary, Canada.
“As much as I loved football, I love preaching the gospel more. It’s the best news in the world. Once you were condemned as a child of wrath; now you’re free and adopted as a child of God.”
Cal Newport: Focused Success in a Distracted World
An interview with Cal Newport about his new book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World.
Bungling My Way Through Romans | Gentle Reformation
Former PRTS student, Kyle Borg, describes his experience of preaching through Romans.
“As a young seminarian I was told: “You would be crazy to try and preach through the book of Romans without twenty years of pastoral experience.” I trust there is probably wisdom in that. I don’t think it’s mere coincidence that many of those men I regard as great preachers have not preached through Romans without such requisite experience. So, I admit, it may have been a bit of youthful indiscretion combined with hastiness that drove me to the pulpit to preach Romans as the first series of my first pastorate. But, as my two and a half year endeavor comes to an end in the next couple of weeks, I wouldn’t change it if I could.”
Here Is The Inevitable Next Step in Our Culture’s Quest to Redefine Marriage | Canon Fodder
“Genetic Sexual Attraction is when a mother and her biological son, or a father and his biological daughter, are in a sexual relationship. I had never heard this term before, but I suppose it sounds better than the word that really describes such relationships: incest. And now GSA people want to get married.”
The Westminster Confession of Faith: A Pastoral Document? – Place for Truth
“There are those who claim that the Westminster Confession of Faith is a scholastic document lacking in pastoral sensitivity but abounding in the dust of theological tomes. But is it? I don’t think so. In fact, I am convinced that the Westminster Confession is both heady and hearty! That is to say, it is wonderfully pastoral. Don’t believe me? Check out a few examples.”
Will I Be Single Forever? | Desiring God
“I wish someone had helped me understand, and then live, my singleness in the light of eternity. I think it would have helped me to enjoy a godlier, more productive, more contented life during those years.”
Kindle Books
For your non-Kindle book buying needs please consider using Reformation Heritage Books in the USA and Reformed Book Services in Canada. Good value prices and shipping.
A Christian’s Pocket Guide to Papacy by Leonardo De Chirico $0.99.
1 Peter For You: Offering real joy on our journey through this world by Juan Sanchez
The Deliberate Church: Building Your Ministry on the Gospel by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander
New Book
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport. SOunds like a book we could all do with:
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way.
Video
Top Secret Drum Crew @ Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
For a stirring start to your Monday morning. If you are ever visiting Scotland, you should try to coincide with this annual event held at Edinburgh Castle. You’ll probably come back wearing a kilt.