Some kind of blinks
Work was fairly slow today, and so as I did a few things I listened to this talk today by CJ Mahaney, called The Troubled Soul: God's Word and Our Feelings. He opens with this quote by Paul Tripp:
“No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do. You’re in an unending conversation with yourself. You’re thanking to yourself all the time, interpreting, organising, and analysing what’s going on inside you and around you.”
It's a good talk. If anyone followed the link to the sermon Rejoicing Always by John MacArthur that I posted a few weeks ago MacArthur also makes a similar point; that strong people talk to themselves and discipline themselves and pull themselves into line with truth, while weak people listen to themselves. We are to listen to the word of God, and then talk to ourselves.
Then I listened to another by John Piper called Fighting for Faith with God’s Word, which was just excellent.
Today I also read this post by The Procrastinatrix, which I appreciated. There are times when I feel like I have been rather "out there" in mentioning singleness, so it was refreshing and heart-warming to find someone else being honest. I've been doing some reading on singleness lately, which I am saving for later. It's been good having a reason to read some books (I tell myself it's "research" :) ...). However, a couple of times last week I brought up one of the dilemmas, and feel that I got on a small soapbox, so if start talking toooo much about it in public, well someone clamp their hand over my mouth quick smart!
And finally, here are two good articles I read in response to the "major controversy caused by an art exhibition featuring the photographic work of Bill Henson", one at Just in CASE, and the other from the Dean.