Gems in the Web 2/14/14
My days at home were blindingly tiring. I’m not exaggerating, and I know some of you are right with me here. Many of you are still in it. You are hanging on by a thread. You are puking in the bathroom for the 10th solid week in a row while little children whom you love dearly are running around the house largely unkempt and unruly. You are lying on the couch trying with all your might to eat a cracker and not smell anything. You are wary of people who smell like showers. Or onions. Or garlic in yesterday’s food. You resent people who talk about tortillas. You are holding your breath as you walk into the kitchen and fill a sippy cup against all odds. Or you might even be as desperate as I have been and tell children who certainly aren’t big enough to go ahead and pour themselves juice.
Read the rest of Frantic on the Femina blog.
The difference between faking and trying isn’t in the actions for the most part; it’s in the motivation. Am I attempting to merely look like something or to actually get better at something, to mislead others or accomplish a goal? Pretending never has any goal in mind other than to fool people until one can escape the circumstance (like me on the soccer field).
Read the rest of Are You Faking or Trying When it Comes to God? by Barnabas Piper.
As I dropped the carefully cut sandwich triangles in front of my boys, I thought back to when I had dreamed of living overseas for the gospel. Young, ambitious, and filled with hope, I was going to give my life to whatever far away place God put in front of me. “Anywhere, Lord!” I loaded up on evangelism classes, and earned a minor in missions. I was even engaged to a man aimed at the world, a missions major. Together, we couldn’t wait to follow Christ to the ends of the earth.
Read the rest of Stay-At-Home Moms with Missionary Hearts over at Desiring God.
Ken Ham and Bill Nye recently debated the question: Is creation a viable model for origin? The whole thing annoyed me, mostly because Ham didn’t stay focused on the heart of the question – the viability of intelligent design – and instead focused on young earth creationism. If you want to have an intelligent discussion on this in a secular, scientific forum, there is a way to do it, and it is not to go into the details of the first few chapters of Genesis, in my humble opinion. Before you get into HOW He created, you need to first establish the evidence that He created at all. There is a boatload of evidence to that point, but that was not the focus of what could have been an incredible opportunity to get people to simply consider the possibility.
Read the rest of Thoughts on Intelligent Design by Wendy Alsup. (This is a fascinating article!)
It delights me that God brings all the great questions of life and death down to the razor thin issues. It delights me that there are human beings created in the image of the most high God who could fit on the head of a pin and not fall off. From the vantage point of the Almighty, the rest of us are not that much bigger. So every fertilized human egg will live forever, and every unfertilized egg won’t.
Read the rest of When Neighbors Begin by Douglas Wilson.
