Coram Deo ~

• How to Pray When You Feel Like You Pray the Same Thing Every Day. Courtney Reissig writes “If you don’t want to pray the same things all the time, praying Scripture might be helpful. When we pray Scripture, whether it’s a psalm or any other passage, we have fresh ideas to fuel our prayers each day.”
• 5 Steps to Help You Practice Meditation. Matthew Bingham writes “Given the stress early modern writers laid on meditation as a revealed duty incumbent on all Christians and not an optional add-on, it is worth asking whether contemporary evangelicals have neglected or even forgotten this once-esteemed practice altogether.”
• Why the Christian View of Aging is Countercultural. Jen Wilkin states “The world’s false story of anti-aging is that aging is a disease that we fight or it is a malady that we conceal. You’re not supposed to show your age.”
• Christian Women and the Poison of Porn. Rosaria Butterfield writes “If you are a Christian woman, you can stop consuming pornography. How? Fight the enemy inside you. Read God’s word and believe it. Pray.”

Click on ‘Continue reading’ for:

• More interesting article links
• Favorite Quotes of the Week

Continue reading →

• It’s Not Too Late to Make This a Great Year of Bible Reading. Tim Challies writes “I want you to believe that you can still make this an extraordinary year of reading your Bible. However, for that to be the case, you will need to take a bit of time to consider how to read, what to read, and how to either form a new habit or re-form an old one.”
• No Fear of Old Age. Tim Challies writes “It is in old age that the fruit that began to grow in the younger days finally comes to its ripeness. The seeds that were planted many years before are seen to have grown and multiplied.”
• 3 Marks of True Repentance. Matt Boswell writes “Repentance lies at the heart of the Christian message and forms the rhythm of the Christian life.”
• A Reflection on the Five Love Languages. Russ Gehrlein writes “What is your love language? What is your spouse’s love language? These are good questions to ask ourselves.”
• Rest as Sleep in the Third Third of Life, Part 2. Mark Roberts writes “If sleep is a gift from God, then we should feel free to ask for that gift, just as we would ask for other gifts from the Lord.”

Click on ‘Continue reading’ for:

• More interesting article links
• Favorite Quotes of the Week

Continue reading →