“Radically ordinary hospitality is this: using your Christian home in a daily way that seeks to make strangers neighbors, and neighbors family of God. It brings glory to God, serves others, and lives out the gospel in word and deed. If you are prohibited from using your living space in this way, it counts if you support in some way some household in your church that is doing it. The purpose of radically ordinary hospitality is to build, focus, deepen, and strengthen the family of God, pointing others to the Bible-believing local church, and being earthly and spiritual good to everyone we know.” (Rosaria Butterfield, The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World)

by Cesar Vigil-Ruiz

Feliz Friday! I hope your weeks have been filled with recognizing God’s grace in your life, and pray these week’s links are a continuation of that theme.

• How do you deal with doubts as a believer? Do you ignore, run away, or walk through it? That is the topic of discussion on The Impact 360 Institute podcast, where Jonathan Morrow interviews Alisa Childers (ZOEgirl, anyone?) on how she overcame her many doubts about Christianity in her early 30s. Pass it along!
• With a recent interview pastor Andy Stanley had with Jonathan Merritt about a controversial sermon Stanley preached on unhitching ourselves from the Old Testament, Michael Kruger revisits his response to Stanley’s view of Scripture back in 2016 that is worth (re-)reading. Make sure to check out Al Mohler’s response to Stanley, too.
• What is lust? John Piper, in his Look at the Book series, provides a lab of defining lust in the light of Scripture. Now, how should Christians battle lust? Heath Lambert in his most recent Truth in Love podcast gives five ways to deal with this common temptation.
• Over at the Gentle Reformation blog, Aimee Byrd is interviewed about her newly published book, Why Can’t We Be Friends? Avoidance Is Not Purity. She discusses the Billy Graham/Mike Pence rule, and practical suggestions for how to cultivate healthy friendships with brothers and sisters in Christ.
• Denny Burk reflects on the Trinity debate that occurred two years ago between many influential evangelical theologians, and links to a sermon he preached a few weeks back on 1 Corinthians 11:3, a crucial text in the debate.
• When you make an upcoming big decision in life, how should you go about it? Marshall Segal suggests something many believers at times neglect: asking someone older (and godlier) than you for counsel.
• Andy Naselli asks a couple of questions to the Director of Keswick Ministries, Dr. James Robson, concerning past Keswick theology (“Let go and let God”), and its current stance on progressive sanctification. Don’t miss out on Naselli’s previous work on the issue.
• Pastor Jordan Standridge specifies the lost art of hospitality and lists four areas in the Christian life that benefits from a life of hospitality. May we all grow in our love for our neighbor through this neglected practice.
• Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has become somewhat of a YouTube personality, celebrity, and even substitute father-figure for many young men. How are Christians to think through some of his thought and writing? English theologian Dr. Alastair J. Roberts gives some insight into how a believer can process some of Peterson’s views.
• Pastor John MacArthur began a new blog series that plans to address the contrast between “social justice” and the gospel of Christ, beginning with a couple of stories you may have never heard about MacArthur before. You won’t want to miss this!

That’s all for this week! Continue to pray for our all-church Bible study tonight, as we learn about the God who rules. See you all on Sunday!

Soli Deo Gloria