Wisdom For Your Weekend: your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Resources of the Week
When Is It Time to Have “The Talk” with Your Kids? Tim Challies. Not many parents look forward to talking about the “birds and the bees” with their children. But if parents don’t address sex with their kids—and early—then they’ll learn elsewhere. This is a helpful compendium of several books to keep parents ahead of the curve.
Articles of the Week
Did Jesus Make Mistakes? Kevin P. Emmert. Ever the controversialist, Mark Driscoll made some waves recently by mentioning in a sermon that Jesus, while sinless, made “mistakes” as he grew up. Christianity Today asked some theologians whether they thought it was appropriate to use that term for Jesus. Wherever you land on the issue, this points up the importance of precision in language, especially language about Jesus.
Fasting: Too Powerful a Tool to Be Left on the Shelf, David Mathis. “That burn in your gut, that rolling fire in your belly, demanding that you feed it more food, signals game time for fasting as a means of grace. Only as we voluntarily embrace the pain of an empty stomach do we see how much we’ve allowed our belly to be our god (Philippians 3:19).”
Reflections On My “Break-Up” With The Gospel Coalition, Tullian Tchividjian. I was joined by many others in scratching my head last week as Tchividjian left The Gospel Coalition site on seemingly poor terms. But this response, issued a few days later, offers one of the more encouraging and refreshing examples of Christian humility I’ve seen. We should all have the courage to apologize so well.
Christian Comparison Isn’t Pretty, Sharon Hodde Miller. “Every Saturday night, I do something that I really hate. I wish I could stop, but the temptation is far too great. Every Saturday night, without fail, I spend a shameful amount of time mulling over this oh-so-not-important question: What am I going to wear?”
On The Lighter Side
Capturing the Raw Emotion of Brand New Dads, Dave Young (via 22 Words). A London photographer got some great candid photos of fathers— in the moments just before, during, or after the birth of their first child. It may just be that I’ve got a soft spot for this (since my first child was born last week!), but I thought these were beautiful.
