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Saturday Snippets (August 12)

As well as reading a lot of books, I also read a ton of articles every week. Here are some of the articles that I’ve read recently and have found interesting, helpful, challenging and encouraging. I hope that they will be the same for you, my dear readers…

That sports day feeling on God’s team

I wonder if you remember being a child when it came to sports and maybe you were picked last. Those moments can leave an impression on a child. It can make them feel like they’re too small, too tall, too slow or too fast to be used on the team. Or maybe it’s at university or in work, you’re surrounded by ‘experts’ who always seem to have the right answers and you don’t. You can feel left out, you can feel insignificant, inexperienced or stupid.

Busy

When you ask someone “how are you?” One of the most common words that will appear in their response is ‘busy’. We live in a world where it’s all go, go, go. Emails are on our phone and no longer tied to a desktop in the office. Our mobiles are constantly connecting us with the world around us. Our diaries become jam-packed before the month even begins. It can be very stressful! Sound familiar?

Saturday Snippets (August 5)

Sometimes the best gift God can give you is pain

Over the last ten years I’ve read tons of books and blog posts on suffering and devoted countless hours in study and thinking about the topic of suffering and pain. Why? Well, for the last 10 years I have been suffering from constant chronic pain. You can read a little about that here.

Intentional Interruptions

Ever feel that you’re being pulled in 100 different directions because of the little notification nightmare in your pocket?

Our world is full of distractions that can take up all of out time, if we let them. But interruptions aren’t all bad! Jonathan Thomas helps you see that there are interruptions that God can and does use to help His people draw closer to Him.

Saturday Snippets (July 29)

The Character of Christ

Sometimes you come across a book that just hits the spot. It brings the right balance of encouragement and challenge, theology and application. This is the latest of those kind of books that crossed my desk.

Saturday Snippets (July 22)

Illustrated shorter catechism

One of the things that I have grown to love about Reformed theology over the years is the importance that it places on training children in the way of the Lord. Don’t get me wrong, other traditions do this too, but I have grown to love some of the resources that have come out of the Reformed camp.

One such resource is the Westminster Shorter Catechism (WSC). the WSC was written by the Westminster Assembly in 1647 and was designed to the basic doctrines of the Christian faith. The format of the WSC is question and answer and you probably know number 1 without thinking too hard…