self-discipline | SingleRoots

Go back to bed. Take a nap. Get some rest.

After a week that involved surviving a Friday the 13th, a BCS championship game that didn’t turn out quite like many expected, as well as saying goodbye to Dublin Dr. Pepper, it’s so time for the weekend. Here’s to sleeping late and a new episode of Downton Abbey on Sunday night. (If you’re not watching it, get thee to to the PBS website or Netflix and catch up, stat!) And while you’re doing all that “weekending,” here’s a little extra reading material:

The Differences Between Religion and the Gospel :: Tullian Tchividjian tweeted a link to this post that he wrote for the Gospel Coalition back in 2009. He lists a number of comparisons that Tim Keller makes between religion and the Gospel. “…Real slavery according to the Bible is self-reliance. So, read the comparison list below with humility and care. It will do your soul good.” [Read more...]

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{Editor’s Note: Today’s post was written by Libby Gifford. You can find out more about Libby at the end of the post.}

When I was in the second grade, my mom captured what my family believes to be one of the world’s funniest moments on film. At the time it was not great for a laugh, but by the time I was a teenager, we would sit down together to laugh and watch it over and over again.

The year was 1988. The place was outside my elementary school. My grandparents lived 14 hours away, so Mom had been making a video to show them some of our day-to-day activities. When I walked out of school, she was standing beside our truck with a giant camcorder on her shoulder. [Read more...]