There are lots of great links for you to look at today.
A Clean House and a Wasted Life— Tim Challies has written a great post that should be encouraging for every wife and mother in the world: You cannot have perfect order and perfect productivity. You cannot have a home that is warm and full and inviting, you cannot have every child fed and cared for, while also having every dish done and every sock laundered. You just can’t.
Three Non-Negotiables this Easter Sunday— No matter what, these three things cannot be neglected this Sunday in your worship services.
How to Destroy Your Pastor— I may write more on this later, but until then, this article deserves your time. It really resonated with the things I know to be true about my ministry and the ministries of many other pastors: I realized then that he didn’t see me as I saw him, as a brother in Christ. I was his enemy, worthy only of his derision, not his compassion. As he met my stare with a stony one of his own, I pledged to myself, “That’s it. I quit.” For months and even years after this experience, I struggled to comprehend why this man viewed me with such disdain. The only thing that I could discern was that his entire small group seemed to collectively hold a pretty dim view of me as their pastor.
Absolute Truth in an Upside Down World— A great reminder that our experiences are not always the best way to determine what is truth and what is fiction.
A Holy People— The church should be known for its holiness: One of my greatest concerns in the Bible belt is that many are ok with being “Christ-followers” who have no concern for actually following Christ in all of our conduct. The blood that flowed mingled down at Calvary saves us, and by that same grace, it’s changing us.
