Each Friday, I’ll post links to 3–5 resources from around the web you may want to check out.
Love Is the Interpreter
A keen observation from Tim Challies here: knowing the author of the Bible is a sure way to grow in our love for the Bible.
Yet each of us can attest that we did not always love God’s Word. It was not always sweet to our taste and not always our delight. In fact, there may have been times in which we hated it, in which we found it bitter, and in which we mocked and belittled it rather than find delight in it. There were times when the Bible was like those musicians—we skipped it, we tossed it, we moved on to something we liked better.
When Life is Hard, Keep Reading Your Bible
Glenna Marshall reminds us how much we need the Scriptures when life is hard.
The daily act of opening my Bible and digging in wasn’t a distraction from my troubles. It was guidance and hope in them. The Lord gave me peace—not in changed circumstances but in the grounding of my soul in the Word of my God. He never changes. He is always true. He is the source of joy and hope. The ordinary rhythms of study directed my soul when life got really hard really fast.
Jesus Loves the Self-Righteous Sinner
If you’ve accepted that God loves loud rebels but have more trouble believing that God loves the self-righteous, this post is for you.
Most of us are comfortable with a Jesus who loves the prodigal, but less comfortable with one who loves the self-righteous. Yet if we let Scripture shape our understanding of Christ’s love, we see that Jesus is not only kind to the hurting but also to the proud. Consider Luke 15. In one of Jesus’ most famous stories, a father runs to embrace his rebellious son after he returns broken and ruined by sin. But that’s not where the story ends. The older brother—the hard-working, well-behaved son—refuses to join in the celebration of his lost brother now found, resentful and convinced of his own moral superiority.
On the WPCA Blog This Week
This week on the blog we published an article I wrote called The Parable of the Dog and the New Master. If you haven’t already seen it, check it out!
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