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Steve Mathewson offers pastors good advice on what to do when the Bible contradicts your idea for a sermon. “The tension between ‘what you thought going in’ and ‘what you realize after further study’ causes the truth to make an even greater impression on you than if you had understood it going into your study process. Also, this tension can make the sermon idea more ‘sticky’ for your listeners. There’s something memorable about a sermon in which the preacher says, ‘The Bible surprised me this week.'”

Jim Martin offers encouraging words to those who may be feeling insecure about life or ministry: What You Do Really Matters. “I want to believe that if my work is offered up to the Lord, then it is significant ministry. I want to always believe that God does not measure things the way we do. Rather, he is the God who is able to make much out of little. He feeds thousands with five loaves of bread and two fish. He is the God who blesses the most unassuming ministry and turns it into a powerful force for his purposes.”

Albert Mohler responds to a column in the New York Times where the writer insists that she has no need for marriage, and that her private commitment to the man she loves is sufficient. “Marriage is not primarily about what we as individuals think we want or need. It is about a central public commitment that the society needs, that couples need, that children need, and yes, that the spouses need. Marriage is a public institution, not merely a private commitment. It identifies the couple as a pair committed to lifelong marriage and thus to be respected in this commitment.”

John Piper shares about the prayer responsibility that was handed down to him when his father passed away last year. “Now that he is with Jesus, I feel the weight of being the patriarch in the Piper family … There is no great-grandfather anymore, only grandfather, and it feels like a wonderful opportunity for me to love my grandchildren and my kids. I do that mainly through daily prayer. I name before God every day all of my children and all of my grandchildren the way Job did. Scripture says that Job got up and sacrificed for his children every day, if perchance they had sinned. I pray rather to try and keep them from sinning. Nonetheless, there is a prayer cover that I feel like I owe this Piper clan which my dad once kept up.”

Justin Taylor interviews Scott Klusendorf about his upcoming book: Equipped to Engage: Pro-Life Christians in the Brave New World. “The pro-life position has more explanatory power than the abortion-choice and pro-embryonic research ones. For example, advocates of elective abortion and embryonic stem cell research cannot account for basic human equality. If humans have value only because of some acquired property like consciousness, it follows that since this acquired property comes in varying degrees, basic human rights come in varying degrees. It’s far more reasonable to argue that although humans differ immensely in their respective degrees of development, they are nonetheless equal because they share a common human nature.”