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After a heavy night out and with the rain pouring down in buckets, Ayla can’t handle her hangover and decides to finish the speed still in her pockets hoping it will at least distract her from her discomfort
Fortunately, Samuel thought today would be a good day to visit his daughter and after hearing her talk about her problems, he cleans up her apartment so she can get some rest before her audition later in the evening
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by Samuel James (Desiring God) - We humans are not pure rationalities. We are embodied souls who, throughout life, bear imprints. We reflect what we love and what we believe. In other words, we are shaped by that which is outside of us...
The world of AI is changing too rapidly for most Christians to track. What principles from Scripture can help us engage well with this techn
Let’s take a quick survey. How would you feel in the following scenarios?
You discover that last Sunday your pastor preached a sermon that was written by ChatGPT.
In a digital age, when anything can become content for posting, how can we escape the pull of online glory-seeking? The answer awaits us in
Few of us would willingly repeat our middle and high school years. For many, the span from age twelve to seventeen held insecurities, fears, disappointments, and maybe even intense suffering that we would not want to relive.
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The Theology Of Good Reads
Have you seen the recent “colored book” decoration trend? The basic idea is to take books whose covers have the same basic palette and put them together, thereby arranging all your books by color. Some used bookstores are even offering bundles of all-blue, all-green, or all-yellow books that you can buy just for this purpose.
If you’re anything like me, you understand why this trend might be appealing, but at the same time, something in you recoils. To see books thrown together just for the color of their covers, or to see books being sold not for what they say but for what they look like, seems to betray the very idea of a book. Something inside me protests, That’s not what books are for!
A kind of alarm goes off inside us when we see something used far beneath its purpose. And the truth is, this doesn’t happen just with the physical exteriors of books. It happens with what’s inside of them too. Have you ever wondered what it means to read like a Christian? Surely it means more than being a Christian and reading. There are precious realities that shape and season what and how we read. Let me commend five principles that help and challenge me to read like a Christian...
...Christians do not think of their reading as primarily the fulfillment of a duty, but as an astonishing joy...
Read whimsically, not wastefully.
Read personally, not performatively.
Read with generosity, not grievance.
Read with wonder, not weariness.
Read for eternity, not for ephemera.
We live in a noisy world. There is no end to the novelty. And the vast majority of it is meaningless: thousands of tweets, articles, and even books that will be almost immediately obsolete, millions of hours of video and audio that will hardly make sense in a week. We don’t have a choice whether we will live and read in such a world. But we can choose how we live and read in it.
The books, stories, poems, and essays that will stay with us the longest, perhaps even for a lifetime, will be the ones that make eternity come alive in some way. A theological work illuminates just how much we can trust Christ. A classic novel makes virtue feel worth the suffering. A poem’s beauty hits on our hearts like sunlight on a starved leaf. An essay makes ultimate reality just a little bit clearer. These are hours of reading that we never truly leave; the words leave an imprint on us. These are treasures that can make the noise we often consume feel as fleeting as it is.
As I read the Bible, I’m continually amazed by how its freshness grows with each passing year. The Scriptures are more than our first reading priority each morning, or the only inerrant words we can read (though they are that). The Bible is the book that gives every other good book its power. It is the epicenter of beauty, the metanarrative of meaning - every story that reverberates in our hearts comes, ultimately, from God’s Story.
As you read - books, essays, poems, plays, and more besides - look for eternity. Look for the Bible’s residual presence. Look for the aroma of transcendent truth. And with gratitude to the one who is himself the Word made flesh, let this kind of reading do its good work in you.
Samuel James Read Like a Christian: Five Principles for What and How
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