Your Best Links Now – 2/18/14

(I’m really glad I didn’t decide to call this feature “Your Best Links at 8:30 A.M.”)

Standing with That Sinner Martin Luther

Matthew Block writes an important piece over at First Things on this, the 468th anniversary of Luther’s passing. “This truly is why we remember Luther: not because he was always nice, not because he was always good, and certainly not because he was always right. He wasn’t. Instead, we remember Luther because he directed attention always away from himself to Christ. It is to Christ we look for salvation, not our own holiness. Indeed, this is the context of Luther’s oft-quoted and much-maligned ‘sin boldly’ comments . . .”

We Don’t Find Grace, Grace Finds Us by Tullian Tchividjian

“The Gospel is not a story of God meeting sinners half-way, of God desperately hoping to find that one righteous man on whom he can bestow his favor. The news is so much better than that . . .”

The Government Has Built An Entire Fake City in Virginia

With a sports stadium, bank, school, and subway system. I bet it’s a pretty creepy place to wander around in. Also because this is where they no doubt keep the mutants.

5 Ways to Improve Congregational Singing by Keith Getty

“It seems curious that in a generation that has produced innumerable conferences, articles, blogs, and even university degree programs on “worship,” the topic of congregational singing hasn’t been raised more often. But even if we had been discussing congregational participation, would we know what goal we’re aiming to hit each week?”



Beaker Meeps “Ode to Joy”

It’s exactly what it says.