This article shows that when we desire something, we can sometimes argue unfairly, constantly changing targets, belying that we want something regardless of any rationale against it. The author shows how pro-abortion advocates have done this over time. We should not only be wary of others who do this; we should also be careful that we do not do the same thing, and if we do, be aware of what is going on in our own hearts.

In the age of the Internet, we are able to get our fill of teaching from all over the world. This is a blessing, but we should be careful not to fall into the trap of having a set of teachers from which we merely borrow convictions. My takeaway from this article is slightly different than the main point. At the end of the day, we need to ground ourselves in Scripture, not just what other people say.

This article warns about being legalistic when choosing worship songs. We should be careful not to come up with a set of rules that would exclude the Psalms, our original songbook, from our choices. It makes more sense to apply rules to the full set of songs that we sing, rather than any particular one, as the Psalms themselves are very diverse in their expression.

This article argues that there’s a link between the health, wealth, and prosperity “gospel” and the disappearance of the Psalms from our worship. The disappearance of lament, which is prevalent in the Psalms, from Christian worship has normalized positive feelings and attitudes while leaving mourning and desperation out of the normative Christian life. We should learn the Psalms in part to have a vocabulary and grammar of lament, but also to seek to have our prayers match a more biblical model.