Here's another weekly round-up of good online reads.
Sacrifice Is the Beginning. "Maybe the giving up, the surrendering, is not the end at all. Maybe it is the very beginning of something new, something bigger, and more purposeful."
Longing for More, HT to Challies. "On a soul level, whether in our highest or lowest moments, we know from our earliest memories that something critical is missing. And God shows us in all kinds of ways that He is that vital ingredient."
Resurrection Sunday Hope for a Tuesday Afternoon. "While we can't ride the Easter high every day of the year (the jelly bean supply just can't keep up!), the hope of the resurrection never wanes. You can have hope, joy, and peace in the middle of your Tuesday doldrums or Thursday despair because Jesus is our risen Savior."
Is the Lord's Supper a Feast or a Funeral? HT to Challies. "When we approach the Lord's Supper we should do so with an attitude marked primarily by joy, and not sorrow. We come singing and rejoicing, not mourning or weeping. Yet, how can this be if the thought of death pervades the very foundations of the sacrament? The answer lies in the gospel."
Is the 'Silent Treatment' a Godly Approach to Conflict? HT to Challies. Though I agree with the writer that silence and withdrawal shouldn't be used as punishment, some quiet time lets emotions cool down and helps us process what the conflict was all about and how to deal with it.
10 Reasons to Hate Hospitality and 10 ways to rethink it.
That he, the God of life, should conquer death by embracing it.
That he should destroy the power of sin by letting it destroy him.
Joni Eareckson Tada, When God Weeps
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