Blogs

Your Thoughts Will Betray You
According to Martyn Lloyd-Jones, overthinking and self-evaluation can actually encourage and contribute to spiritual depression.

7 Tips to Help Manage Depression and Anxiety
I’d probably pass on the Himalayan Salt Lamp

“Self-care is the root for coping with mental illness. I never understood the meaning of self-care until I was hospitalized. It sounds simple to take care of yourself but you would be surprised by how many people neglect self-care.”

Should We Preach like the Puritans? Yes
A follow up to Joel Beeke’s previous article which argued “No

7 Delivery Skills for Public Speaking
“I don’t know a single person, even a seasoned professional speaker, who doesn’t get at least a few nervous butterflies before they speak. But I’m also aware there’s a big difference between a few excited butterflies and paralyzing fear. Let’s review some of the main areas of delivery and strategy and provide exercises you can do to practice and improve.”

5 Things Your Wife Wishes You Knew (But Might Never Tell You)
“You may be the recipient of her home-cooked meals, wear the clean clothes she washed and folded yesterday, and eat off the dishes she unloaded from the dishwasher. You may share a bed with her, raise children with her, and even participate in keeping the home in order. You love her and value her, and maybe you even tell her that regularly. But even if you do all of that, here are five things your wife wishes you knew about the work of the home.”

How to be a Friend Magnet
“The truth of the matter is that we all have the ability to be friend-magnets when we enter a room with the words, intentions, and body language of seeing others–There you are!–rather than saying Here I am! Everyone look at me! Everyone listen to me! or the opposite, false humility response, I hope no one notices me. I will feel too self-conscious.

The Eschatological Insufficiency of the Archaic
“Remove archaic fixtures we must, because devotion to the archaic reveals in us an insufficient eschatology. Loving what met needs in the past over what meets the need of the moment fails to anticipate the glory that is to be revealed. It trades a vision for the glory of Christ for earthly forms that are passing away.”

Kindle Books

The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between by Greg Koukl $3.99.

Bringing the Gospel Home: Witnessing to Family Members, Close Friends, and Others Who Know You Well by Randy Newman $2.99.

Practicing Hospitality: The Joy of Serving Others by Pat Ennis $2.99.

Video

Karen Pence Opens Up About Her Marriage
Mike Pence isn’t just second to the President, he’s second to his wife too.