Your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.
Video of the Week
If you’re in the Raleigh-Durham area, you don’t want to miss this:
FALSE LOVE: OVERCOMING SEXUAL SIN FROM PORNOGRAPHY TO ADULTERY
Part One: Saturday September 21, 2013
Part Two: Saturday September 28, 2013
Time: 4:00 to 5:30 pm or 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Location: The Summit Church, Brier Creek South Venue
Address: 2415-107 Presidential Drive; Durham, NC 27703
Cost: Free
RSVP: Part One (Sept. 21) // Part Two (Sept. 28)
Articles of the Week
A Berkeley Philosophy Professor Wonders: Can Faith Ever Be Rational? Tania Lombrozo. There is a naïve idea that “faith” requires believing something against all evidence to the contrary. But faith isn’t blind adherence to something, contrary to all evidence and rationality. As professor Lara Buchak claims, making a decision of faith can actually be the most rational option out there.
How Can Preachers Find Time to Share the Good News? Matt Merker. “Pastors shouldn’t feel guilty for prioritizing their unique, God-given role to care for the sheep and train them up in ministry. A pastor isn’t an evangelism hog but an evangelism enabler. But this doesn’t mean that his personal evangelistic ministry should vanish into thin air. Even the greatest general is still a soldier at heart.”
An Open Letter to an Older Woman, Catherine Parks. For all of our emphasis on “fresh,” “new,” and “young,” older members of our churches may feel like they have no place. But they always have and always will. This is a beautiful reminder for all of us to recognize the immense value in our older brothers and sisters.
Letter to an Incomplete, Insecure Teenager, John Piper. “My experience of coming out of an introverted, insecure, guilty, lustful, self-absorbed adolescent life was more like the emergence of a frog from a tadpole than a butterfly from a larva. Larvae disappear into their cocoons and privately experience some inexplicable transformation with no one watching (it is probably quite messy in there) and then the cocoon comes off and everyone says oooo, ahhh, beautiful. It did not happen like that for me.”
On The Lighter Side
Logical Fallacies Are More Fun When Illustrated . . . By Frogs, Pigs, and Bears
