Satan accuses Christians day and night. It is not just that he will work on our conscience to make us feel as dirty, guilty, defeated, destroyed, weak, and ugly as he possibly can; it is something worse: his entire play in the past is to accuse us before God day and night, bringing charges against us that we know we can never answer before  the majesty of God’s holiness.

What can we say in response? Will our defense be, ‘Oh, I’m not that bad?’ You will never beat Satan that way. Never. What you must say is, ‘Satan, I’m even worse than you think, but God loves me anyway. He has accepted me because of the blood of the Lamb.’ (D. A. Carson)

by Richard Shin

• Crossway is celebrating 75 years and making the ESV Study Bible available for free on the web. If you haven’t taken advantage of this already, you need to get on this. And in case you’re confused, it’s the “web app” which you can activate and view with an account on crossway.org.
• Crossway also released a new web app called Reformation Creeds & Catechsims that enable you to view the different historic creeds and catechisms. You can activate this one for free.
• Tim Challies has a three-part series on the topic of modesty that is quite good.  You can find them here: part 1, part 2, and part 3.
• Jonathan Leeman shares a few thoughts on what high schoolers really want from college. Even if you’re not in high school, you may very well know one who is or have a kid that will be. So, perhaps worth a gander.
• The Employment Non-Dscrimination Act (ENDA) has been a hot topic as of late. Joe Carter shares a few questions and answers regarding this bill. Denny Burk also has a similar Q&A session with Andrew Walker, Director of Policy Studies with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, here.
• John Piper recently went to Ethiopia and came back with some lessons he learned, like “missions is not for wimpy women.” Since not many of us will go to Ethiopia (or similar) in our lifetime, this might be insightful for us.

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