Uprooting Anger

I am reading Uprooting Anger  by Robert D. Jones right now.  In the past I have sometimes wondered at Jesus saying in the sermon on the mount that anger is murder. But the more I become acquainted with my own sinful heart, the more I understand and believe it.   Jones says that it is hard to see anger in ourselves.  One of our sons has been taking stumps out of the ground this summer.   It is hard work because the roots are deep and tough.  So are the roots of sinful anger. It can either be revealed or concealed.   Either way it is deadly.   I have been concealing anger and the fruit of it was coldness and a severe temptation to punish.   The book is very good -- like having sessions with an excellent Biblical counselor -- homework and all!!!!      For an excellent review and a place to order it, see
http://www.monergismbooks.com/Uprooting-Anger-Biblical-Help-for-a-Common-Problem-p-17146.html

Rest in God's provision for our children.

"It ill becomes the professed servants of God to murmur, because children are withheld:  but it is far worse, to fret because they have a numerous offspring.  Children are in scripture considered as a heritage, and a reward from God to his people; and shall we deem them our encumbrance?  as if he could not provide for many as well as for few!"


The Comprehensive Commentary of the Bible.

Stop the Mantra

"Ladies, we need to stop the mantra that we are just as good as men.  We need to stop cataloging all the areas in which we perceive discrimination.  Instead we need to embrace the reality that when it came time to assigning important roles for the continuance, nurturing, and guidance of the human race, God chose not to send a man to do a job that only a woman could do!"

Andrea Schwartz

Read the whole article here:

http://chalcedon.edu/research/articles/engendered-differences/

"Sabbath is an act of liberation."

Carolyn McCulley cuts deep with a post on the Sabbath.   I rejoice, as this subject is close to my heart.   Arguing that the Sabbath never haven been abolished, it gives good thought into our temptation to find our identity in our work, and how the Sabbath frees us from that.  Go take the challenge.

http://solofemininity.blogs.com/posts/2011/05/lord-of-the-sabbath.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsolofemininity+%28R

They shouldn't all go to college.

My parents left the Netherlands for Canada in 1953.   Because of that, I have a bit of familiarity with their educational system.  I subscribe to a DutchNews newsletter and saw this news bite today.   Notice that in secondary school there is a serious option for students to prepare for a trade.  In fact, if you do the numbers, there are more students preparing for trades than for college and university combined.  This fits with the call of scripture to train up a child in the way he should go -- according to his gifts.


Secondary school final exams begin
Some 205,000 secondary school pupils start taking their final exams on Monday. In total, 105,350 trade school pupils (vmbo), 58,700 pre-college pupils (havo) and 41,200 pre-university students (vwo) face two weeks of tests. More
 

Glory and Agony

 "Prayer...is in one aspect glory and blessedness; in another, it is toil and travail, battle and agony."

The Hidden Life of Prayer  by D.M. M'Intyre

Triumph in Tribulation

"...let a man once obtain the pardon of sin, the favour of God, and a believing view and prospect of the glory to come, and it is so easy to triumph in tribulation, in such a station as that is, that it will be found as hard to hinder it, as to hinder a man from laughting when he is tickled."
John Flavel  A Treatise on Fear