Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Video of the Week
“What about All of the Violence in the Old Testament?” Peter Williams. Peter Williams is a brilliant communicator (and it’s not just his British accent). Here he discusses how we should respond to a particular moral objection about The Old Testament: violence.
Articles of the Week
8 Acts of a Healthy, Growing Church, Rick Warren. “When you look at the book of Acts, you find at least 8 characteristics of the early church that positioned them for this kind of blessing from God. If we echo the actions of the early church, we can expect God’s blessing on our church as much as those ancient leaders saw a blessing on the church in Jerusalem.”
This Is Your Brain on Google, Kate Shellnutt. “I believe embodied knowledge allows for a fuller human experience. Our all-knowing, wisdom-loving God intends for us to “find wisdom” and “gain understanding” (Prov. 3:13). Actually learning something and recalling it is part of what it means to be human. It’s the comfortable, fulfilling rhythm of performing a favorite activity or reciting a favorite passage of Scripture that’s so committed to memory that we do it without thinking.”
How Should Men and Women Communicate with Each Other? Brad Hambrick. “Love languages, pink hearing aids, blue sun glasses, love tanks, love banks, waffles, spaghetti, Mars, Venus, his needs, her needs, love, respect, love dare, seven key questions, seven minute solutions, new marriages by Friday, fourteen secrets . . . Are all these just different ways of saying the same thing?”
Parents: Learn to Repent to Your Kids, Yancey Arrington. “I know it will probably change as my kids move into adolescence, but for now, my three young sons think their daddy rarely can do any wrong. The only problem is that I can be downright selfish, impatient, and unbelievably wrongheaded in full view of my kids. And it’s in those times I’ve got a choice to make: either tuck tail and run from my responsibilities or look my kids in eyes and repent.”
On The Lighter Side
News Headlines: The Onion or CNN? The line between the two grows dimmer by the day. (My favorite is “Something Congress could agree on: Helium.”)
