Happy Monday. Hopefully everyone’s Valentine’s Day weekend was safe and full of love for others. Time to challenge your hearts and minds I hope!
Link of the Week
If you do anything with today’s post, take 7 minutes and listen to this clip about the Bible. It’s John Piper’s response to being too intellectual. Listen, I think he’s too intellectual at times! But his reply is good and challenging.
Question: Do you give up when thinking is too hard?
The Christian Faith
1. When you are challenged in your faith, do you panic?
Question: How can you develop a comfort level for being challenged in what you believe?
2. Here is a great piece on emotional survival. Yes, ministry is hard. It is very emotionally taxing and I encourage anyone in ministry to read this one.
Question: If you’ve been ministering over the long haul, is this easy to miss? Is it more difficult to admit?
3. Family devotions in real life. This may be an area where a lot of people feel like failures (I’m included!). It’s good to hear someone else’s approach.
Question: Did your family do devotions? If so, how did it help shape your life?
Teens and Parenting Teens
1. __ in 25 teens has attempted suicide. (click link to find out answer)
Question: Would you have guessed this high? Or, low? If you’re an adult, do emotional problems of teens mean anything to you?
2. This is a challenging article about how to guide teens to appropriate levels of responsibility and decision making. Not sure I’ll do it entirely this way, but it made me think!
Question: For those who have been there (or for those approaching), what do you think of the 17.5 idea?