Desiring God, Productivity, & "Church and Parachurch" (March Headlines)

It's time for another edition of Headlines - our monthly collection of links from around the web.

 

• Justin Taylor recently posted an interview with John Piper regarding the 25th anniversary of his bestselling book Desiring God.
• I enjoy reading and learning about productivity.  One blog in particular that frequently discusses this topic is What's Best Next by Matt Perman.  He recently posted a two-part interview on productivity with Tim Challies (read part 1 and part 2) 
•  The new 9marks eJournal has now been published.  The theme of this issue is Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? and it deals with the relationship between churches and parachurch ministries.  Read it on their website or download the entire journal as a pdf.

Past editions of Headlines:

• Summer Camp at Camp Gilead, Sproul on Creation, & the 2011 Desiring God National Conference
• Bible Reading, Frozen Baptisms, & eJournals
• Headlines - December's Links

Bible Reading, Frozen Baptisms, & eJournals

Here are this month's 'headlines' - things from cyberspace that have recently caught our attention.  Enjoy!

• Bible Reading Plans ~ If you are still looking for a Bible reading plan for 2011, check out this post from Justin Taylor.
• Baptisms Alaska Style ~ Here is yet another good reason to live in Florida!
• Pastoral Moves ~ The latest 9marks ejournal is now available.  I've read about half of it and this issue is one of their better ones.  It deals with the topic of Pastors moving to other churches.  There are some interesting articles on the topic of 'pulpit committees.' 
• Themelios ~ The latest edition of Themelios is also currently available.  This journal is more scholarly than the 9marks journal but it still contains some good stuff.

Related Posts:

• Headlines - December's Links
• Headlines - November's Links
• Headlines - October's Links

More Than a Feeling: The Emotions and Christian Devotion - D.G. Hart

Last week I directed you to the latest 9Marks eJournal. Well, I just finished reading through the journal this past weekend. There was one article I wanted to specifically point out to you. It was titled, More Than a Feeling: The Emotions and Christian Devotion by D.G. Hart.

Christians, especially 'us' Baptists, struggle with our emotions. We often feel an awkwardness associated with publicly displaying our emotions. We struggle with fitting our emotions together with our doctrine. Hart writes of this tension:

What then is the proper balance between the objective and the subjective? How are Christians to rightly regard the emotions? In brief, we should understand that the subjective depends on the objective. Right emotions depend on, and derive from, sound doctrine.

Later on he also writes:

Another important factor in balancing the objective and subjective aspects of Christian faith is to recognize that Christian experience arises from truth. Emotions proceeds from doctrine, not the other way around.

I highly recommend you read the entire article to better understand this tension between our emotions and our doctrine. It was an encouragement to my soul and I trust it will be to yours as well.