Resurrection Hope in Our Hopelessness - C.H. Spurgeon on joy amid darkness.
Til Conscious Uncoupling Do Us Part - Mary Kassian addresses our culture's view of divorce.
You Can't Claim a Promise - "To claim something is to take ownership, to say “it’s mine.” When we lay claim to property we gain certain rights and privileges. Litigants are awarded claims or denied them, claims of monetary value. Promises don’t work like that."
Passion Week: An Infograph - Even though Easter is over, this is still such a fascinating infograph to look at.
Six Lessons in Good Listening - "Listening is one of the easiest things you'll ever do, and one of the hardest."
The World Series, Tightropes, and Ordinary Plodding - "The reality of life as a believer is not so much winning as losing. Persecution, struggle, opposition--the Bible is clear that these are part and parcel to following Christ. The problem with thinking that "God = winning" is not only the fact that so few of us actually, you know, win but that even more of us aren't anywhere near the limelight."
If I Wrote the Bible - "I have been thinking about the sheer otherness of the Bible, the fact that it is so different from every other book. And I got to thinking, What if I had written my own bible? How would it be different? How would a simple, sinful person like myself approach the task of writing a standard of faith and practice that was meant to transcend all times, contexts and cultures?"
10 Cottages that Look Like They're Straight Out of a Fairytale - These are way too cool.