What Did You Expect??

Joshua and I are going through this book together on date nights and already we are seeing fruit in our marriage. The heart is the target in marriage, just like in Tripp's brother's book on children ("Shepherding A Child's Heart"). It is one of the best books we have read on marriage so far, and we hope that it will be an instrument for change in your marriage as well. Please check it out...you won't be disappointed.

For the "Janeite"

  

My husband knows how much I love everything Austen, so as soon as this book hit the press he ordered me a copy. Peter Leithart (Christian Encounters Series) has done an excellent job of giving details from Austen's life with her heart and soul in view. She was a Christian first and foremost and must be written with God having a prominent place in her life. A must read for all my "Janeite" friends out there!

The Divine Order

The Divine Order
What You Feel vs. What is Real

This is a book I regularly visit because of the second chapter.
It helps to transform my thinking when I am filtering everything through my emotions instead of the Word of God. Here are a few quotes from the book that help remind me of the truth.

"Oh, the havoc that is wrought, and the tragedy, the misery, and the wretchedness that are to be found in the world, simply because people do not know how to handle their own emotions!"
-D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"what we have in the Bible is Truth; it is not an emotional stimulus...and it is as we apprehend and submit ourselves to the truth that the feelings follow." -D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones


"If we want our hearts to be moved by the gospel, if we want our emotions engaged, if we want to be truly amazed...we have to start putting our feelings in their proper place. So we need to slow down for a moment and contemplate God's order for truth-based living and thinking, an order which we have a tendency to disregard." -C.J. Mahaney

"When we first focus on truth, lo and behold, feelings follow! And they'll be reliable feelings, because they're anchored in truth. That's divine order." - C.J. Mahaney