INTRO Welcome to the podcast, don’t be downcast, let your soul bask, in the glory of His name.
#ARTICLE Service Animals
“Customers have attempted to fly with comfort turkeys, sugar gliders, snakes, spiders, pigs and more…”
Among the recent incidents: A man was reportedly mauled by another passenger’s 70-pound emotional support dog as a Delta flight was boarding in Atlanta last June. The man could not escape because he was in a window seat and the attack left him with facial wounds requiring 28 stitches.
#ARTICLE Service Goats
LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/27/man-with-service-goat-kicked-off-bus-forced-to-walk-home.html
“I get on the bus and the driver was like, ‘What are you doing here? You can’t have a goat on the bus,’”
#CLIP NPR News – Docs Don’t Know Much About the Flu
Mike Mulcahy interviews Dr. Michael Osterholm
LINK: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/02/20/rough-flu-season-how-worried-should-you-be
#CLIP Piper – Biblical Mindset
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9p88VzCihM&t=584s
#CLIP Tim Keller – Human Flourishing
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZFCB9sduxQ&t=62s
#CLIP Dave VanAcker – Satan’s Trickery
LINK: http://gracewyoming.com/watch-or-you-will-be-devoured/
#ARTICLES Jesus Calling
LINK: That’s Not Jesus Calling – GTY
“I knew that God communicated with me through the Bible, but I yearned for more. Increasingly, I wanted to hear what God had to say to me personally on a given day.” -Sarah Young
LINK: https://www.challies.com/articles/10-serious-problems-with-jesus-calling/
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/ Quote of the Day / MIKE LIVINGSTONE
“The great heresy of the church today is that we think we’re in the entertainment business.”
LINK: https://mikelivingstone.com/2014/12/17/the-heresy-of-worshiptainment/
The great heresy of the church today is that we think we’re in the entertainment business. A.W. Tozer believed this to be true back in the 1950s and 60s. Church members “want to be entertained while they are edified.” He said that in 1962. Tozer grieved, even then, that it was “scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction was God.”*
More recently, David Platt has asked: “What if we take away the cool music and the cushioned chairs? What if the screens are gone and the stage is no longer decorated? What if the air conditioning is off and the comforts are removed? Would His Word still be enough for his people to come together?” (Radical)
Would it be enough?
Tozer got it right: “Heresy of method may be as deadly as heresy of message.”
#ARTICLE Is Christian Radio of the Devil?
LINK: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/is-christian-radio-of-the-devil
4. Am I cultivating a consumer mentality?
“But for almost all of history, music was something people made together. And for most of history, we knew our teachers, and they were in the room with us. No longer. Most of our music is now made for us by people we do not know. What will be the outcome of this experiment?
Of course, this same challenge could be made against many of our worship services, not just Christian radio and music. Still, while the tendency to receive, rather than participate, antedates Christian radio and the Internet, I wonder if our modern media reinforce a wrong desire?”
#ARTICLE Learn to Love Your Uncomfortable Church
LINK: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/learn-to-love-your-uncomfortable-church/