--- title: Favorite Finds Friday 4/7/16 canonical: "https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/melissa-kruger/favorite-finds-friday-4716/" pubDate: "2016-04-08T00:00:00.000Z" updatedDate: "2016-04-08T00:00:00.000Z" author: Melissa Kruger description: "Some articles for your weekend reading – Enjoy! The Great Parental Freak Out This just became one of my favorite parenting articles. It had me nodding my head in agreement all along the way, especially this last part: \"In all and through all and surrounding all of this, let your home be a place of fun and laughter. Talk to your kids. Tease them. Let them tease you. Show them how much you love your spouse. Be affectionate. Play games. Wrestle on the ground. Kiss their owies. Stay up late when the teenager is finally ready to open up. What matters…" tags: [Christian Living, Recommended Reading] --- [![favorite finds friday 2](http://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/melissakruger/files/2015/09/favorite-finds-friday-22.jpg)](http://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/melissakruger/files/2015/09/favorite-finds-friday-22.jpg) Some articles for your weekend reading – Enjoy! [The Great Parental Freak Out](https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/kevindeyoung/2016/04/05/the-great-parental-freak-out/) This just became one of my favorite parenting articles. It had me nodding my head in agreement all along the way, especially this last part: “In all and through all and surrounding all of this, let your home be a place of fun and laughter. Talk to your kids. Tease them. Let them tease you. Show them how much you love your spouse. Be affectionate. Play games. Wrestle on the ground. Kiss their owies. Stay up late when the teenager is finally ready to open up. What matters most are the things the kids think about least—the things that are such a regular part of their lives that their whole world is being shaped by them whether they realize it or not. If the home feels safe, if mom and dad love each other, if your children trust you, if there is some basic semblance of routine and some palpable, even if not totally explainable, sense that these weird people actually like each other, then that’s a whole lot to be thankful for.” [You May Be More Like “Other Women” Than You Think](http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2016/march/you-may-be-more-like-other-women-than-you-think.html) Do you feel different than other women? I often do. Don’t miss this article from Sharon Hodde Miller: “Again and again, Scripture exhorts us toward unity because our human default is toward the opposite. The human gaze naturally lands upon our differences, even when our differences are good. That is how an otherwise healthy message about our uniqueness can lead to loneliness and division. As Christians, then, our challenge is not to erase our uniqueness, but to put it in its proper context: service to the whole, not separation from it.” [Don’t Freak Out About Tomorrow](http://courtneyreissig.com/blog/2016/4/7/dont-freak-out-about-tomorrow) Courtney Reissig offers up sound wisdom about playing the “just wait” game: “Because I viewed my own life as more hectic than their life, I couldn’t empathize, I couldn’t understand, I couldn’t believe that anyone’s life (especially a single, childless one) carried more burden than my own. I acted under the assumption that life can only get harder from here and I assumed that my limited view of their future was actually the most accurate one.” [Should We Miss Our Church Graveyards](http://www.russellmoore.com/2016/04/06/should-we-miss-our-church-graveyards-2/) I’ve told my husband time and again that I hope he’ll bury me next to a church. I miss the visual reminder that church graveyards serve, as Russell Moore notes, “Perhaps, though, a graveyard in our peripheral vision as we get out of the car for worship might remind us of the gravity of the task before us. Maybe a cemetery in at least some of our churches would serve as an icon that all our Babels will collapse, all our wood, hay, and stubble will be incinerated before the Judgment Seat.” [Wisely Handling the Book of Proverbs](http://www.ligonier.org/blog/wisely-handling-book-proverbs/) R.C. Sproul offers helpful advice about understanding Proverbs, particularly when they sometimes seem in opposition to one another. He notes, “There are certain circumstances when it is not wise to answer a fool according to his folly, but there are other circumstances when it is wise to answer a fool according to his folly. [Proverbs 26:4](http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Proverbs%2026.4) says, “Answer not a fool according to his folly, *lest you be like him yourself*” (emphasis added). If someone is speaking foolishness, it is generally not wise to try to talk to him. Such a discussion will go nowhere, and the one who tries to carry on the discussion with the fool is in danger of falling into the same foolishness. In other words, there are circumstances when we are better off saying nothing.” [50 Ways to Love Your Church](http://www.sundaywomen.com/2016/02/50-ways-to-love-your-church.html) Megan Hill offers a number of small ways to love others in our congregations. What’s a new way you can love your church this week? [Chick-Fil-A Employee Seen in a Cranky Mood](http://babylonbee.com/news/chick-fil-employee-seen-cranky-mood/) If you’ve missed the [Babylon Bee](http://babylonbee.com) website, I encourage you to visit and enjoy a good laugh. They’ve done a great job of making the internet a happier place.