Weekend Reading, 31 July

Grateful for my kids letting me sleep in this morning! Grateful too looking back at blogs throughout this last week. I am blessed to have found a community of Christian bloggers that call me higher, challenge me, encourage me, and make me think. A (long) roundup of my favorites:

• God is not a cosmic vending machine, plus other insight as Katdish meditates on Pete Wilson’s book Plan B.
• Aarron Reddin reminds me that us addicts like to make excuses. Especially when it comes to picking and choosing which of Jesus’ commands to follow.
• There are a lot of possible reasons David might have slipped. j4man considers a few.
• Chad Missildine will never be a super-Christian. That’s ok, neither will I.
• Are we spending time storing up worldly blessings or eternal? Dusty Rayburn asks.
• Glynn Young gives a thoughtful and personal review of the late Michael Spencer’s book, Mere Churchianity.
• Michael Perkins observes first hand that yes, God does use Facebook and Twitter.
• Tips for how to destroy your marriage with an affair by Perry Noble.
• Ryan Tate reminds us not to ignore our inklings.
• In spiritual warfare, we need a band of brothers. Jay Cookingham measures his life in “friend years“.
• Sometimes a building has to be torn down before it can be rebuilt. A lesson we can apply to our lives and our writings, encourages Barbara Scott.
• Meanwhile, driving over the potholes in life requires realignment, writes Billy Coffey.
• Finally, Peter Pollock asks if we have the guts after watching one of my favorite movies, Freedom Writers.