Worth Reading - 4/13
Here are some links worth following this week.
1. Trevin Wax discusses the importance of pursuing Christ-likeness in all our decisions.
2. Whatever you might think about the climate change and the environment, there should be little question that we need to clean up the amount of trash we are pushing into oceans. This article about a whale with 64lbs of trash in its belly is an indication of a problem.
3. Alan Jacobs reflects on the way that adults are conditioning children to "lead our culture" and it isn't entirely a good thing.
4. Wendy Alsup asks whether Numbers 5 is bad for women:
5. David Platt gave a profound sermon at T4G on racism and the gospel and the need for repentance. It's worth your time.
The hope of Christians for creation is not that we will be able to make things entirely correct through our efforts. Rather, we work with the knowledge that we have been given a ministry of reconciliation, which includes all of creation (cf., Col 1:20; 2 Cor 5:16–18). We work toward reconciliation in hope, but recognize that hope will not be fulfilled until Christ comes again. Creation exists in futility in the present age because of God’s curse on creation. (Gen 3:17–19) Our task is to till the ground in hope, making our living, (Gen 3:20) looking forward to the moment when God supernaturally sets everything right.