Jun
04
2010
Around the Blog in 80 Seconds
To Be Good or Not to Be Good?
Mockingbird has a good post on why Christians should focus on their sins rather than just focus on “the good parts” of our rebirth. A snippet:
What about the objection to focus on “the good parts” of us now that we are saints? Until Jesus returns I have a double life: I am fully justified and fully a sinner. I still live here on earth. My sin, though conquered, will continue to be condemned by the Law and thrust me on the Gospel until I go to heaven. I would prefer to focus on God’s “good parts”
rather than mine.
A Larger Market?
Christian Book Distributors has launched a new website called CBDReformed (HT: Challies). It’s designed, as the name suggests, to cater to the Reformed Christian reader. I’d say that’s a wise move given the maniacal love of books common to most of the Reformed types I know.
But, I’m also the type that’s “weirded-out” by anyone marketing to me in such obvious ways. I think I still prefer Westminster. Feels like they’re being who they are, not just a large discounter looking for a bigger slice of the book-buying pie. I guess that angst also comes from my days of owning an independent bookstore in the era of big box retail stores.
Beta DG
Check the new Desiring God site. it allows you to personalize, favorite, and go mobile. Sweet stuff. The DG folks do wonderfully creative, savvy, Christ-honoring stuff with their media. For instance, I loved the conference announcement they put together for this year’s national conference:
Classic Ortlund on “Accepting Jesus”
A snippet:
You and I are not integrated, unified, whole persons. Our hearts are multi-divided. There is a board room in every heart. Big table. Leather chairs. Coffee. Bottled water. Whiteboard. A committee sits around the table. There is the social self, the private self, the work self, the sexual self, the recreational self, the religious self, and others. The committee is arguing and debating and voting. Constantly agitated and upset. Rarely can they come to a unanimous, wholehearted decision. We tell ourselves we’re this way because we’re so busy with so many responsibilities. The truth is, we’re just divided, unfocused, hesitant, unfree.
The the entire post, it’s only one more insightfully provocative paragraph.
Men Are Dumb
Or at least that’s what Abraham Piper says about this guy who writes some advice columnist for an answer to this question:
How do we ever survive without the fairer sex? You can see why God said, “It’s not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him” (that is, smarter, capable of propagating the species, and capable of child proofing the house so we don’t electrocute ourselves!).