Each Friday, I’ll post links to 3–5 resources from around the web you may want to check out.
We Need Advent
T. M. Suffield writes about how the waiting of Advent is just the thing we need.
Advent can help us. This is a season of darkness, focused on the second coming of Jesus. It’s a time of waiting. It’s a time to really feel the tension of living in the Between, this suspended moment between what was and what will be. The Church are a people of the Between, a people of gloaming, of the time when it’s neither night nor day, the time between the times.
You’re Exactly As Holy As You Want To Be
This article from Tim Challies is a sobering reminder of our still-being-sanctified wills. We now have the ability to resist sin, but we often put up little fight. This should not only sober us, but our unity with Christ should give us hope.
Yet that’s only partially true. There’s another sense in which each of us is exactly as holy as we want to be. How is that the case? Because there is no one who can force us to sin and nothing that can force us to fail to do whatever is righteous in any given moment. There is no one who can keep us from deriving spiritual growth and benefit from any of the circumstances of our lives. No one, that is, except ourselves. If we ever wonder who is hindering our holiness, we don’t need to look any further than the closest mirror.
Six Questions Our Children Have that Demand Answers
Here’s a look at the sorts of questions our children ask as they mature. The author provides some advice on helpful answers we can supply.
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