Here is a short (turned out to be not so short!) list of very good reads discovered this week:

How to Thrive in College, HT to Lisa Notes.

The next four are from a new-to-me blog called The Good Life. I’ve been reading the Ink Slinger for a while now, and this is his mom.

When the Call For Grace Means the Gagging of Discernment. Excellent. Grace and discernment come from the hand of the same God and are not enemies.

Eleven Ways to Hurt Your Local Church.

How Can I Love My Local Church? Let Me Count the Ways.

11 Ways God Uses Church Conflict to Sanctify Us.

The Other Edge of the Sword. We need love plus truth, love founded and backed up by truth, not love that obscures truth.

Mothering Amnesia.Yes, I suffer from it. 🙂

You Are Equipped for Motherhood. I don’t know a mom who hasn’t doubted this, and this is great encouragement.

Preventing Bullying: Children With Special Needs. Sadly, “Our society does not value the lives of people with special needs as highly as it values lives of people without disabilities.”

What’s Your Thing? We each have different gifts.

If you are familiar with Star Trek beyond the original series, you might get a smile from this:

This is from the Galkin team. The Galkins, as well as the former youth pastor from our church and a few other families, are planning to move to Salt Lake City later this year to plant a Baptist Church there. The young man who first starts singing here was in our older two sons’ youth group in SC. It’s exciting to see how the Lord is opening the way for them!