Resources For Growth

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Below is a list of links to articles, blog posts, podcasts, and books that I’ve been reading or have read over the last few months. They have encouraged, challenged, and caused me to grow in different ways. I hope you will find the same usefulness in them as we all seek to better understand where we are culturally, and how we should live as Christians engaging a culture that often sees the world vastly differently than we do. 

 

Books:

The Patriots, by Winston Groom: a.co/d/fcuj3tr

Digital Liturgies, by Samuel D. James: a.co/d/hRoLack

The Power of Prayer, by RA Torrey: a.co/d/0tvm4T9

The Anxious Generation, by Jonathon Haidt: a.co/d/1BhFuQd

The Disappearance of Childhood, by Postman: a.co/d/3acCR07

The Radical Disciple, by John Stott: a.co/d/fr5TdmR

 

Articles & Blogpost 

 

Theology is for all:

• “The Christian gospel satisfies the total man. Of course it does. We were made for it. The gospel is what all of history is about. Would a good God create us a certain way, love us, and then plan and accomplish anything but what he knew would totally satisfy us?’

www.lookingatchrist.com/2018-9-9-the-gospel-satisfies-the-mind/

 

Christian Living:

• “These are times of testing, times of pruning, times of forging — some of the best times, in the end. Here, he makes soldiers. Here, he sharpens our service. Here, he reveals his all-sufficiency.”

www.desiringgod.org/articles/when-we-must-walk-alone

• “I haven’t seen the film, but I’ve heard Tolkien includes no reference to J.R.R. Tolkien’s faith. This may even be one of the reasons why the Tolkien estate has disavowed the film. Now, of course the exclusion of his faith is intentional: much work goes into creating a movie; it wasn’t left out accidentally.

But why was Tolkien’s faith left out?”

www.lookingatchrist.com/why-might-the-media-diminish-the-christian-faith/

• “Do you know a war is being waged for the eternal souls around you? And not just the souls immediately around you, but for every person on earth — the 1.46 billion in India (80% Hindu), the 1.42 billion in China (just 5% Christian), the 255 million in Pakistan (96% Muslim). Billions of people are running headlong into hell, many of them with no one fighting to introduce them to Jesus.”

www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-wartime-way-to-stay

 

Politics:

• “Political interest can lead us into pride and hatred, and it may even become our idol. And all this is nothing new. It’s not because of 24/7 media or the increasing political schism that we must be careful. It’s always been this way, for the problem rests not in our environment but in the human heart.”

www.lookingatchrist.com/c-s-lewis-on-the-danger-of-political-pride-hatred-and-idolatry/

Social Media and Ai:

Articles:

• “Now, a sinister thing about social media is that it speeds up your time both in the moment and in retrospect. It does this by simultaneously impairing your awareness of the present and your memory of the past.”.... “This moment is the youngest you’ll ever be. It’s a moment your future-selves will wish they could have back. Don’t waste it scrolling through posts you won’t even remember tomorrow.”

www.gurwinder.blog?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web

 

Podcast:

• “Andrew Pudewa, president and instructor at Institute for Excellence in Writing, joins me for an honest look at AI and its effect on homeschooling, education in general, and society.”

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nicki-truesdell-podcast/id1798330030?i=1000724337516

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