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Dec 16, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Abigail Dodds
The more we can forget ourselves and our overbearing manners and simply receive the bread of life with the joy and delight of a child, the more honor God gets. When we are satisfied by his bread, that is, his Son, he is honored and glorified. It is a dangerous thing to start thinking about our glory. It seems the moment our mortal minds begin to dwell on any sort of glory that involves ourselves, we are tripped up into idolatry, into a lust for praise and human acknowledgment.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Abigail Dodds
If we can begin to imagine ourselves enjoying his praise because it’s from him, from his mouth, not mainly because it’s centered on us, then we will begin to ready ourselves for heaven. This is the inheritance of children. Do away with all notions of complexity and the tortuous need to nail it all to the wall. Beloved, we are God’s children. The glory that awaits is not mainly for those who can explain it all, having become so grown up they seem to forget the dust from which they were made.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
crossway.org | Abigail Dodds
Partakers of Divine GloryIt is a dangerous thing to start thinking about our glory. It seems the moment our mortal minds begin to dwell on any sort of glory that involves ourselves, we are tripped up into idolatry, into a lust for praise and human acknowledgment. We begin admiring ourselves as we imagine how admirable we will, at last, be. But it is even more dangerous not to think on it.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
americanreformer.org | Abigail Dodds
Detrans by Mary Margaret Olohan is not a pleasant reading experience. It is bracing, horrifying, gripping, and most importantly true and necessary. It is particularly necessary for Christians who care about the truth and care about the welfare of children, but who may have their head in the sand on this important issue. The gift Olohan gives us is the gift of faithful reporting.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
desiringgod.org | Abigail Dodds
During our family’s first time through Andrew Peterson’s four-book series The Wingfeather Saga, I found myself carefully paying attention to one person more than any other: Nia Wingfeather. By the time we were rereading the series for the third and fourth times, I had to resist the urge to take notes on this courageous and queenly (albeit imperfect) mother.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Abigail Dodds
Abigail welcomes Rosaria Butterfield back to Home Fires to discuss her new book, Five Lies of our Anti-Christian Age. Rather than begin at the beginning of her book, we begin at the end, starting with the Lie #5: Modesty Is an Outdated Burden That Serves Male Dominance and Holds Women Back, then work our way backwards. As you would expect, Rosaria pulls no punches--she is as clear, direct, and forthright as anyone I've ever met, and I love her for it. I hope you will, too.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Tim Chester |Abigail Dodds |John Piper
Book of the MonthThe $5 Book of the Month is a special promotion exclusively for Crossway+ members. Each month three hand-picked books are available at $5, $10, and $15 price tiers—all greatly discounted and available for one week only.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
desiringgod.org | Abigail Dodds
Friendship, C.S. Lewis concludes, is “unnecessary.” He says, “I have no duty to be anyone’s Friend, and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art” (The Four Loves, 103). Friendship is a little bit like the offer of dessert after a wonderful meal. No one must eat it any more than the host must provide it — the unnecessary best part. So too with one’s friends.
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Sep 22, 2023 | 
crossway.org | Rosaria Champagne Butterfield |Abigail Dodds |Courtney Reissig
God’s Glory in WomanGenesis 1 builds and progresses with an urgent sense of harmony and power. The prose is terse until you get to the crowning achievement of the magnificent creation of man and woman. That paragraph is long and liquid. Rather than tip the artistic balance, the glorious creation of man and woman is the great literary crescendo displaying the highpoint of creation. And man and woman are created for a purpose: to glorify God by reigning in his name and stewarding the earth.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
desiringgod.org | Abigail Dodds
The early months and years of marriage are a time of significant change. Marriage involves at least one or both people moving to join as husband and wife under one roof. A young wife changes her name to show she now belongs to her husband as the two form a new family. Both the new husband and new wife are stepping into new callings they have never had before! With all the change and transition, it shouldn’t surprise us when conflicts, disagreements, or misunderstandings arise.
