My Favorite Things: August 2021

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Time to share what I’ve enjoyed or what’s encouraged me this month!


Please be sure to leave a comment and share what you’ve been loving lately. I love hearing about your favorite things, too!


Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with anyone or anything on this list.  Just sharing a few of my favorite things!

Spiritual Encouragement:

The Spiral of Grace - “Yes, we keep coming back to the same issue again and again, but we come back at different levels each time we come back… That's why the Spirit will keep circling us back again and again at ever deeper levels through the same issue.” So good.

She Is Called: Women of the Bible Study Series - I’m working my way through these and had to share! I really enjoyed the one on Phoebe.

"It is the Lord!" - “The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him.” Read that again.

Book Recommendations:

(I didn’t publish any new articles this month, so here are a few books you may be interested in checking out if you’re still working toward your reading goal for the year like I am.)

5 Books to Grow Your Prayer Life

5 Books for Hard Seasons

5 Books for New Christians

5 Devotionals to Help You Grow Spiritually

Community Love:

(A few of my favorite things from the online community - that’s you!)

God's Intentions for Your Life - My Lamp Blog // Madeleine has some helpful insight on the context surrounding the often-quoted Jeremiah 29:11 passage.

What Does It Mean to Fear God? - Daily She Pursues // Super helpful article by Shanté - she explains these concepts so well!

Random and Fun:

This. Meme. Yesss.

When You Realize 2022 Is In a Few Months - Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this one!

What Is Your Birth Month Flower? - Mine is Narcissus! How about you???

Resources:

Finding Purpose and Calling Without Marriage and Motherhood - “My purpose is to belong 100% to Jesus: that’s my calling, whether there’s a ring on my finger or not.” Yes.

6 Meaningful Ways to Show Your Staff They Matter

5 Important Questions to Ask to Do a Regular Spiritual Check-up

A Guide to Watching The Chosen

Afghanistan:



What I’m Reading:

A few articles I’ve been reading and pondering…

The Bereans Had No Bibles: Re-envisioning Acts 17 - TGC

It Takes a Village to Escape a Toxic Leader - CT (Russell Moore’s first article after officially joining CT and he does not disappoint!)

Wendell Berry Is Still Ahead of Us - Vox

South Carolina Woman Completes Handwritten Bible - CT

What "Jesus Wept" Means for Manhood - CT

It’s Time to Stop Rationalizing and Enabling Evangelical Vaccine Rejection - The French Press (The title sounds intense, but this article really helped me understand what’s going on with the whole “religious exemption” situation happening right now.)

 

 What are your favorite things right now?

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