THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS A TEAM EFFORT: I love this article by Scott Hurst about how significant gathering actually (rather than virtually) really is. "I am grateful for Zoom and live stream technology, but they can never be a substitute for standing next to my brothers and sisters as we worship Jesus..."

THE BEAUTY AND DANGERS OF FAMILIARITY WITH GOD: With all we have been learning recently about the love of God in 1 John, this is article sounds an important reminder: “Familiarity, which means having a close acquaintance with or knowledge of something, can be good and bad. In the Bible, we are called to respond to God’s everlasting love and draw close to Him. We are invited to love Him, treasure Him, revere Him and know Him intimately. Yet, familiarity lacking these can lead to casualness.”

DON’T REJECT GOD BECAUSE OF HIS PEOPLE: You probably know more than one person who has used this as an excuse to avoid the Lord: “We shouldn’t reject the whole body of God’s truth because some of His people, or those who professed to be His people, fell so far from His ideal. They’re accountable for their sins and failures, but what they do doesn’t void the truth they taught. We’re accountable for the truth we’ve heard despite the vessels it sometimes came through.”

SELF-WORSHIP IS THE WORLD’S FASTEST-GROWING RELIGION: It's a bold claim by Thaddeus Williams, but it is hard to disagree with him: “In our day, the Westminster Catechism answer has been inverted: ‘the chief end of man is to glorify and enjoy himself forever.’ One could even make a case that self-worship is the world’s fastest-growing religion. It is certainly the world’s oldest (just read Gen. 3). Moreover, this religion lies beneath many of the most hot-button social and political issues of our day.”