Growing in Grace: April 2015

You Will Change the World - Jon Bloom is one of my favourite writers and this article demonstrates why. "Your very existence has already unalterably changed the course of world history. All of us, from the child who does not survive the womb to the centenarian, leave indelible marks in the lives of those around us and those who come after us."

Using Your Tongue for God's Glory - Joel Beeke offers four practical ways to speak kindly and wisely.

The Way the World Works - "The world only works when life is held as precious. Each of us wants to live more than we want to die. We are overwhelmed by the longing to not die, and consumed with the desire to go on living."

Is Driving School Buses Kingdom Business? - Well, is it?

Why is a Wedding Any Different? - Kevin DeYoung answers the question: "Why might a Christian refuse to attend, cater, or participate in a same-sex marriage ceremony?"

This. Is. The. Day. - "It will do me no good to wish for another day. A different day. The day that someone else is having. This is the day that I’ve been given. This day, full of the mundane and the ordinary, full of the opportunity unexpected. This one, the one that’s beginning right now, is the day."

Why I love the local church - Here is personal testimony from a woman who once refused to go to church.

See the people - From the same blog and in the same vein, this is a reminder that everyone in the church has an impact.

Yo-Yo Quilts, Hidden Pictures, and Fleas - "Even though we can’t see how the yo-yo’s of our life fit together into a beautiful quilt, we too have a job to do. What are we to “do in time with God”? We are to fear him (v. 14). But there is more."

The six daycare survivors from the Oklahoma City bombing - Yesterday marked the twentieth anniversary of that horrific and now iconic event. This video was recently created, showing where the daycare's six survivors are now.