Friday Finds (3 July)
Friday Finds, is a collection of recommended reads, resources and creative projects from the web. Are you the owner of an online platform or engaged in a creative project that touches on topics of life, faith and culture? Please get in touch. I would love to hear about it.
1. Let’s Talk: Overcoming Church Hurt
Wounds inflicted in the church can surprise us, since we expect other Christians to act in godly ways. I enjoyed this Let’s Talk episode where Jasmine Holmes, Melissa Kruger and Jackie Hill Perry talk about their own experiences with church hurt, what they have learned, and how they have overcome it.
2. The Irony of it All
A comforting and clever read by Kris Sinclair. He writes: Irony was the weapon Satan used to deceive us, irony is what consumes our life’s pursuits and ambitions, and, ironically enough, irony is what will save us. “Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it”.
3. IMBetween Podcast: A Conflict-Free Marriage Is Not The Goal
Daniel and Christina Im share (with plenty of funny personal stories) the differences between solvable and perpetual conflicts, the ‘4 Horsemen Of The Apocalypse’, and why winning an argument can actually be losing.
4. Do You see the Joy of God in the Sun?
In this sermon, John Piper reminds us of God’s “ministry through the sky”, and that sun can bring humility, hope, healing and happiness into our lives.
5. The Greater Story – Episode 13 – The Good Place
In episode 13, Mikey and I chat about The Good Place and tackle the topics of human improvement, morality and whether heaven is really a place with forever love, puppies and buckets of KFC…
6. Why Ordinary Faithfulness is Enough
Glenna Marshall encourages patience and persistence: The cumulative effect of daily, ordinary faithfulness will produce gradual but real growth in your life…the Lord never required instantaneous, measurable results. He required obedience and dependence upon his steadfast hand holding on to you.
7. What Grieving People Wish You Knew
Many of us feel ill-equipped when a friend’s loved one has died. Here’s a book review of Nancy Guthrie’s “What Grieving People Wish You Knew”.
8. When Our Own Understanding Fails
I enjoyed this reflection from the Psalms. Madelyn Canada writes: We have to stop spending all our time trying to understand all of the “hows” and “whys” and spend more of it getting to know the Who behind them…The answers our prideful hearts demand will not calm nor quiet our souls like the love and nearness of our Lord will.
Are you the owner of an online platform or engaged in a creative project that touches on topics of life, faith and culture? Please get in touch. I would love to hear about it!
