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Week 33 – August 9, 2026 through August 15, 2026
This Week:
Brothers,
Grace and peace to you this week. There’s a difference between reading a manual and reading a letter from someone who loves you, and I think most of us default to the manual mode more often than we’d like to admit. We treat the Bible like a puzzle to solve with our own brainpower instead of a voice we’re meant to listen to. This year we’ve been chasing after what it means to have our minds renewed, and this week nudges us toward something we can easily overlook: renewal isn’t a project we finish with enough study hours logged. It’s a gift the Spirit gives, and He’s just waiting for us to ask.
Prayer:
Father, give me the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. (Ephesians 1:17)
Ephesians 1:17 – … that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him…
Meditation:
We do not renew our minds by mere intellect, but by the Spirit’s illumination. Are you reading the Word as a textbook or as a letter from God?
Quote:
“Till the Lord opens them, the eyes of our heart are blind. Till the Spirit has become our instructor, all that we know is folly and ignorance. Till the Spirit of God has made it known to us by a secret revelation, the knowledge of our divine calling exceeds the capacity of our own minds”. – John Calvin
Events:
Thursday – August 13, 2026
- We are “officially” off until September 10, 2026
Saturday – August 15, 2026
Morning Bible Study – 7am
- We are taking the week off to help one of the widows in our body move houses.
Book Recommendation:
Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards
Men today face constant pressure to perform, and Christianity can easily become another performance metric — checking boxes on Bible reading, church attendance, or theological knowledge without ever examining whether the heart has actually been changed. Jonathan Edwards’s Religious Affections confronts this head-on by insisting that true religion is not fundamentally about correct information or disciplined habits, but about holy affections — love, joy, and hunger for God rooted in genuine spiritual sight of His beauty. For men who lead Bible studies, disciple younger believers, or simply want an honest gut-check on their own walk, this book offers a rigorous diagnostic tool rather than vague encouragement.
Edwards spends much of the treatise dismantling counterfeit signs of conversion — intense emotion, fluent religious talk, even confident assurance — that men can easily lean on as substitutes for real transformation. He then replaces those false comforts with something more demanding and more freeing: the test of actual practice, a life of humility, mercy, and increasing hunger for God that plays out over years, not in a single emotional moment. That standard cuts through self-deception in a way few books do.
For men serious about discipleship and self-examination, few works press as deeply into the question of whether faith is genuine or merely felt.
New Blog Posts This Week:
Coram Deo,
GraceMen
