Tomorrow I’ve scheduled my usual roundup of just-because-they’re-interesting links, but there were a lot more valuable ones this week I thought deserve their own post.
Whether you fast or not, Lent should be a period of reflection and repentance. We can’t just jump straight to Easter without considering the darkness that Jesus overcame. Desiring God has a series of eight biblical devotions to prepare for Easter you can read either on the Sundays of Lent or in Holy Week leading up to Easter.
C. H. Spurgeon is excellent, as always, about why creeds are important to worship.
Ligonier posted an excerpt on hell from R. C. Sproul. Thank God for His mercy.
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A friend wrote a beautiful post when her family visited the Taj Mahal
Because despite the beauty and spectacular, seeming perfection of this wonder, I couldn’t help but feel a little saddened by it all: a king, heart and will set to finish something wonderful, in the name of love no less, but thwarted in the end by his own son. That’s the earthly version. The story that failed. But I know a King who set out to do something wonderful, too, also in the name of love. And not only did he finish it, His Son finished it for Him. In a manner most painful and most giving. And most most beautiful.
“…For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.”
She also has a great way for you to donate to Japan and make sure 100% of the funds goes to relief.
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It’s a crazy world we live in, and just when you think you’ve heard it all you realize even worse things fly under the radar. Did you know Michigan is essentially considering suspending democracy? (On the Ides of March, no less.) It’s still amazing to me that while there are protests around the world against totalitarian regimes we’re begging for them here.