a bunch of stuff

Here's the best of the best from my reader this week:

A whole lotta stuff on twitter, texting and entertainment: Al Mohler on texting, John Piper on entertainment, reflections from imonk, Melinda from STR on twittering, Christianity Today chimes in, Piper continuing from Josh Harris' post.

Some things that made me laugh: Spurgeon quote from Pyro, a poem by Andrew Peterson,

Free stuff from Challies, free song from Phatfish and a free song from willy porter, and a chance to win a couple copies of The Bookends of the Christian Life.

A good article from imonk on the Bible study fiasco out west.

A good thinker from Russell Moore on how to actual live out the gospel in counseling someone with a very difficult sin: part 1, part 2 and part 3.

A couple of great pamphlets from Boundless.

And a couple of things to encourage: learning from flawed faith and coming to Jesus messy.

-joe

a bunch of stuff

Here are some of the things that really caught my eye this week in blogland:

Here are some chances at free stuff from the Resurgence and Challies. (By the way...I won last week from Challies! Thanks, Tim, for the books that will hopefully be arriving soon.)

A trio of links from Z:

All three of his posts on Spiritual Alzheimer's. (Think Piper's book Future Grace in super, super condensed form.

And, a quoted post on the emergency of giving.

A little something that made me laugh even though it is kind of sad: 100 million in budget cuts.

Obduracy has become a new favorite word thanks to the Pyros.


Excellent prayer from Melinda at STR.

A little bit of encouragement from the 9 Marks blog.

-joe

the best of the week

I subscribe to a lot of blogs (too many to say outloud, although it is considerably less than this time last year.)

Below are some of the best things I read this week:
The Pyromaniacs disect a bad view of the will of God in a two part series here and here...(they are long)

Every week for awhile Challies has been giving stuff away here.

Gleason via Vitamin Z writes about the glutton of TV.

I never knew this...and it's funny: jumping the shark (I've really enjoyed DeYoung's blog over the past couple of months.)

And, for those of you who don't know, I share quite a bit from my reading here. You can even subscribe to it here.

Have a great Friday,

-joe