Here are some interesting reads seen around the Internet the last couple of weeks:

God’s Bridge to Eternal Life. Nice online gospel tract.

There are two excellent books free or nearly free for Kindle apps for a time: How I Know God Answers Prayer by Rosalind Goforth is a Christian Classic and is free at the time I am posting, and Words by Ginny Yttrup is 99 cents (my review of Words is here). I highly recommend both of these.

Steve Hafler posted Before You Take a Sip, Consider This, about the liberty of drinking alcohol, and the very next day his brother’s car was hit by a drunk driver, killing his sister-in-law and hospitalizing I think two of their children. Unfortunately he has taken down his post commenting on the accident, but Pastor Chris Anderson posted Ambivalence About Alcohol after ministering to the family. I am sure the family would appreciate prayer during this difficult time, and may this cause many to rethink the dangers of alcohol.

Why We Don’t Burn Down Things When Jesus Is Mocked.

Dear Pastors, Please Quit Picking On Video Games. I don’t like the use of the word “butt,” especially in a Christian context, but otherwise he makes some good points.

Book Review of Captivating, HT to Challies. I’ve not read this book. I’ve heard mixed things about it, and this blogger details some of its problems.

What If I Have a Very Overweight Friend?

Ask For Tolerance up front when discussing different viewpoints, HT to Challies.

A Literal Epidemic of Crutch Words, those “empty” words we could well leave out of our speech and writing, or words that don’t mean quite what we think they do. A few days later I saw this on Pinterest (with special meaning for Princess Bride fans) and chuckled:

This was going around Facebook:

And this was a series of texts between my husband and myself, illustrating the iPhone’s tendency to overdo auto-correction:

🙂

Happy Saturday!