Each Friday, I’ll post links to 3–5 resources from around the web you may want to check out.
‘I’m Not Feeling It Today’: Bad Reasons We Neglect the Bible
David Mathis writes about the relationship between spontaneity and habit and how this relates to Bible reading. He advocates “planned spontaneity” and gives five practical suggestions.
Joy in God’s presence disappears when I don’t make a habit of pursuing his presence. Daily communion with the living God doesn’t just happen as we go about our daily lives. Setting our minds on things above doesn’t just happen. God means for us to take some initiative and put in a little effort to do the mind-setting and heart-calibrating, and in those arrangements God loves to bless his people with surprising showers of his grace that have all the joy of the best spontaneity.
The Value of Spiritual Disciplines
Jennifer Weichmann writes about how being a runner has informed her understanding of practicing spiritual disciplines.
Like we can see the effects of a habit across years of practice, spiritual disciplines operate the same way. As consistent running makes the runner stronger and faster, so also a disciplined believer strengthens their faith across time through habits like prayer and Bible reading, and also through the easier to dismiss habits of Scripture memory, fellowship, and fasting. These rhythms of spiritual disciplines matter because habits build, habits sustain, and habits drive.
Lassitude
Our poem of the week: Lassitude, by Mark Rico. This poem is (to me) an on-the-nose description of how July heat feels.
On the WPCA Blog This Week
This week on the blog we published an article written by Cliff Lester called The Grace of Thinking Soberly. If you haven’t already seen it, check it out!
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