In this month's Perspective, Dustin Butts reviews a book edited by Nancy Guthrie, O Love That Will Not Let Me Go: Facing Death with Courageous Confidence in God. It is a collection of essays and excerpts written by pastors past and present each designed to walk a believer into a biblical thought process about death. Butts writes:
In the past, believers spent a good bit of time thinking and writing about death and dying. They did so because they experienced the Bible's teaching on the brevity of this life. Life was hard and often short, so they labored to view it as a time of preparation for the life to come. Death was inevitable (and usually near), and they wanted to be ready to enter into enternity when it came calling.
Great review and a great book.
Then Brad Thayer, a saavy utilizer of all media social, provides some sage counsel on the dangers of the the Facebook age in his article, "Share & Like: Social Media and Christian Witness":
In a world of Facebook, Myspace, Blogger, Twitter, Google+, Linkedin, Foursquare, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, App stors, text messaging, and even "old-fashioned" email, how do we rightly represent Christ? When relationships are fostered through subscriptions, retweets, hashtags, forwards, RSS feeds, and "shared" interests, how do we hold one another accountable to love our neighbors? How can we be "salt and light" in a world of "share" and "like." The biblical imperative is that we are to keep our conduct honorable so that people may see our good deeds and glorify God even in a digital world.
Very good words on two important topics: eternity and the Internet.
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