Good morning. May the God of love and peace be with you today.

(Yesterday on the blog: My Own Little Paradise in an Ocean of Ugliness)
Men, Are You Submissive?
“Submission. Of all the words in the Bible, this may be one of the least popular. After all, our cultural moment is not one that values a posture of submission to authorities. On the contrary, our world insists we should challenge and critique those over us.”
How Personal Policies Can Help You Fight Decision Fatigue
Here’s an interesting little productivity tip. “The power of personal policies is that they relieve you of exerting excess energy in making small choices. Personal policies minimize decision fatigue.”
A Diligent Wife
Lauren Washer has begun a 31-day series that I expect many women will find helpful.
Going Home
“As surely as I know no earthly location is completely home, I also know God put in our hearts a desire for home. That yearning points to a place where we nestle in the heart of Jesus, and He inhabits ours. It promises a place of mansions prepared for us, streets of gold and eternity secured.”
Tell the Truth
Kristin tells another anecdote from her earlier days and shares a lesson through it.
The Measure of Reading Productively: Don’t Count the Numbers
Robert Zink: “The most frequent question I am asked is, ‘How do you read so much?’ which is often followed by, ‘How can I read more like you?’ Those questions, though, fail to capture the motivation, and as a result, do not allow us to measure productive reading.”
The Man of Lawlessness
“Perhaps you’ve heard of the Man of Lawlessness, otherwise known as the lawless one, who ‘opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God’ (2 Thess 2:4).” Peter Krol takes us to the context of the passage to better understand this Man of Lawlessness.
Flashback: Those Exquisite Forms of Love That Do Not Speak Your Language
When I demand that people speak my preferred love language, when it becomes the one way I receive love, I unnecessarily narrow my experience of love. I miss out on all of those “exquisite forms of love that do not ‘speak my language’.”

It is not a bad thing to live from hand to mouth when the mouth is the mouth of faith and the hand is the hand of our loving Father. —Theodore Cuyler

Blessings to you today.

(Yesterday on the blog: The Decay of the World and the Love of God)
Against Autonomy
“The modern story is one of autonomy: the path to human flourishing will be found in being most myself. I will achieve actualisation if I am my most authentic self, whoever that proves to be. At its very simplest it boils down to the Disney princess mantra, we follow our hearts.” This leads into what is quite an interesting article.
Why We Reread the Bible
“The Bible is not like other books. When we finish a novel or biography, we put it down and pick up something new. But many Christians complete a Bible reading and start right in again. For those new to the faith, this may seem strange.” Strange, indeed.
Leaders Who See the Lowly
This is so important: “Leaders who see the lowly and unimpressive are the kind of leaders worth following – and the kind of leaders we should want to become. This is because how we treat the lowly is truly a window into our character.”
Two Pillars for Starting Psalms
This interesting article explains the importance of Psalms 1 and 2 at the beginning of the psalter.
Forgetful
“Are you forgetful? I am. Reading through old journals and letters never fails to delight. Surprise. And confound. Highlighting my forgetfulness about experiences and facts from our personal history.”
FBC Jax Speaks the Truth in Love about Sexuality
You might have heard of how FBC Jacksonville found itself in the news recently. They responded by hosting a community Q&A.
Flashback: My Favorite Family Memory
I have no sweeter memory than the family gathered before the Lord, the family gathered to hear from him and speak to him together. I have no sweeter memory than of our family devotions.

Friend, never be comforted by how much worse of a sinner you could be. No sin is safe, no matter how small you perceive it. —Garrett Kell

The Shepherd’s Conference is taking place this week and Christianbook.com has discounts on many of the books they will be featuring there—titles by John MacArthur, Voddie Baucham, Sinclair Ferguson, and so on.
It’s Monday, which means Crossway has a new batch of Kindle deals for you to enjoy.
(Yesterday on the blog: What Is the Best Thing In Life?)

“When was the last time you prayed for spiritual gifts?” That’s a good question, isn’t it?

Neil Shenvi reflects on his last few years of writing about race. “During this time, I faced consistent resistance from the woke-sympathetic, who viewed my work as -at best- misguided and -at worst- racist. Then, about a year ago, I noticed an odd change. I began to face pushback not from the woke, but from the anti-woke. I began to see people insisting that I’d changed, that I was now a mushy third-way moderate, woke-adjacent, or even a secret progressive.”

Stephen McAlpine observes that Gen-Xers are now leading many churches and ministries. “A good friend was commenting over lunch with me the other day that suddenly it seems that the generation that is constantly being passed by when it comes to leadership, the Gen-Xers, is suddenly coming into its own. His generation. My generation.”

What does it mean to have no creed but the Bible? And is that really a good thing? Carl Trueman comments here.

Here are just a few of the blessings that older saints can offer the church.

I trust that most of us know the answer to the question, but the reasoning is as important as the answer itself. “There seems to be the thought that Christians, buoyed up by the strength of the Lord, need not (perhaps ought not) welcome grief—that there is strength in downplaying such distress at life’s difficulties. After all, we are to consider it pure joy when we face trials of many kinds.”

Though we may fall and lose various skirmishes against sin, because of our union and communion with Christ we have by faith the promise of ultimate victory and final deliverance, which, more than anything else, gives us hope and sustenance in the daily fight against sin.

Character doesn’t just appear out of nowhere; it is the result of God’s refining our lives through tribulation—and, yes, even suffering.
—Sinclair Ferguson