• Glorifying God with Our Bodies Isn’t About What We Don’t Do. David Mathis writes “Glorifying God in our bodies isn’t mainly about what we avoid and don’t do with them. It’s far more about what we do with them—where we go with our feet, what we do with our hands to help others, and what we say with our mouths to give meaning to the acts of our bodies.”
• When Weakness Overwhelms Us. Joni Eareckson Tada writes “Our call to suffer for the sake of Jesus comes from a God who is tender beyond description. In your pain and weakness, he is nearer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24), he heeds your cry of affliction (Psalm 9:12), he treasures all your tears (Psalm 56:8), and he’ll reward your endurance with all the joy eternity can muster (2 Corinthians 4:17). Perhaps best of all, if we suffer with him, “we will also reign with him” (2 Timothy 2:12). Oh, the joy!”
  

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• John MacArthur died on July 14. There have been a number of tributes written for him. Here are tributes from Tim Challies, Alistair Begg, B. Charles Jr., Mark Dever, Kevin DeYoung, Ligon Duncan, Albert Mohler, and John Piper. Here is an article I wrote a few years ago about why I loved John MacArthur.
• Don’t Reduce Faithfulness to Neutrality: A Response to David French and Chip Gaines. Joe Carter writes “Our goal isn’t to win culture wars but to bear faithful witness to a better way of life. That witness is undermined both by harsh and selective judgment and also by pretending our deepest convictions don’t matter.”
• ‘What’s the Point?’: Struggle and Hope in Scottie Scheffler’s Interview. Paul Putz writes “Last week, an interview with the number one golfer in the world, Scottie Scheffler, went viral. Speaking before the British Open, Scheffler reflected on his success with a level of vulnerability rarely seen from athletes at the top of their sport. He summed up his thoughts with a three-word question: “What’s the point?”

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