Grace and peace to you today.

 (Yesterday on the blog: What a Wonder Is a Human Being!)
Three Pursuits Better Than Being Right
There are some things that are more important than being right, as this article explains.
God is One
“God has revealed himself as Triune. He is both one and three. Yet many hear that statement as contradictory. Obviously, in mathematics 1 does not equal 3. And it would be a contradiction if God was one and three in the same way. But he is not.”
Can Satan Help Grow Your Church?
“If Facebook has taught us one thing it is that sensational titles are crucial to being successful online. If this post were a video, the title would run something like this: ‘The Church Grew More Rapidly Than Ever Before, But You Will Not Believe How…’ However, I don’t believe that my caution in this post—that Satan can indeed grow the church—is irresponsible or sensational.”
Why Did God Let Adam and Eve Sin?
This is a brief and off-the-cuff answer, but still a good one.
Do Unto Authors
“When people ask what I do for a living, I often say, ‘My job is to teach college students how to read.’ This is only half a joke, because the reality is that our educational system and society has left many people incapable of reading well.” It is so important to learn to read books (especially the Bible) well!
God’s Immutability Secures Ten Thousand Promises
This article tells how all of God’s promises really hang upon one of his attributes.
Flashback: Making the Christian Life More Complicated Than It Needs To Be
There is no circumstance in which God has nothing for us to do, no situation in which we cannot be faithful to his calling on our lives. He calls none of us to uselessness and calls none of us to another man’s life or ministry.

Let us not be those who are known digitally but not locally. —Isaac Adams

The God of peace be with you today.

This is an important one! Casey explains how connection depends upon commitment. “Over the course of my ministry in the local church, I’ve occasionally heard complaints from people who say they ‘don’t feel connected.’ Honestly, it’s usually a frustrating conversation for me because I don’t know how to make someone feel differently about something.”

Does it matter what posture you use when you pray? “Let me list out … prayer postures you might try that I’ve found in the Bible, since there is such a variety in the Bible itself, with the goal of helping you grow in your times of prayer.”

Ed Welch offers help for those times when your mind just gets stuck.

As the title says, here are seven essential things to know about God’s holiness.

Barbara writes about some of the hardships (and some of the benefits) of aging.

Working from home can be a great blessing, yet it can also come with some struggles or temptations. This article means to warn against some of them.

When we preach Jesus today, we preach for a response. And there is always a response. Jesus repulses and Jesus draws. But an encounter with Jesus never accomplishes nothing.

Fasting does not change God’s hearing so much as it changes our praying.
—Don Whitney

My gratitude goes to Radius for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about the  upcoming Radius Conference. I’m grateful to each of the sponsors who helps support the blog…

I scrounged up a few new Kindle deals for today.
(Yesterday on the blog: Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation)
Why we need a Joshua Harris rule
I generally agree with this, but am not certain that even 40 is old enough!
3 Reasons Not to Mention Greek and Hebrew Words in a Sermon
I also generally agree with this. “I’m here to urge you to remember not to say ‘the-Greek-word-here-is’ in your next sermon. And the next one.”
Is the Church Failing at Being the Church?
Kevin DeYoung: “Evangelicals have a long history of self-flagellation. On one level, this is commendable. As Christians we should, of all people, be aware of our sins, repent of our sins, and ask God to help us overcome our sins. And yet, we must be careful lest the virtue of personal humility leads the church at large to believe things that aren’t true, develop responses that aren’t necessary, and set out on paths that aren’t wise.”
Kept
“This is for the one who is feeling wobbly today. Perhaps you have been flattened: cast aside by another, gossiped about, slandered while doing good. Maybe your heart is tired and sore, and life feels like an uphill slog, all cold, dreary rain minus golden sunbeams. Perchance you are the one who has caused much pain, and your cruelty or selfishness seem irreparable.”
A God Above Means Purpose Below
This is worth considering. “We have meaning below because there is a God above. If there were no god above, we would have no meaning below. Trust me, this isn’t just some ‘Sunday School’ idea.”
Should We Try To Control Who Is In Our Lives?
Should we cut people out of our lives who annoy us or are difficult?
Flashback: There Is Only Ever Today
Life is often like a daylily in that each new day opens fresh opportunities to do good to the people around us—opportunities that often wither and fade before the darkness of evening.

The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. —David Platt