Rebecca Stark is the author of The Good Portion: God, the second title in The Good Portion series.
The Good Portion: God explores what Scripture teaches about God in hopes that readers will see his perfection, worth, magnificence, and beauty as they study his triune nature, infinite attributes, and wondrous works.
Monday, March 4, 2013 at 7:39PM 
Questions about Prayer
120. Q. What is the fifth petition?
A. “And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.”
121. Q. What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
A. That God will pardon our sins, and help us to forgive those who have sinned against us.
(Click through to read scriptural proofs.)
Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 8:01AM When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.Refrain
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.My sin—oh, the bliss of this glorious thought—
My sin—not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.But, Lord, ‘tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
Oh trump of the angel! Oh voice of the Lord!
Blessèd hope, blessèd rest of my soul!And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,Even so—it is well with my soul.—Horatio G. Spafford
Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:
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Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 8:54PM 
A Review
TurretinFan has been posting an excellent response to Rachel Held Evan’s book A Year of Biblical Womanhood on his blog. He writes,
[A] woman who will remain anonymous (at least, that’s the plan) to my dear readers kindly volunteered to write a response to Rachel Held Evans’ “A Year in Biblical Womanhood.” I edited this response and posted it to this blog in installments.
Her response is uncompromising, yet witty. An excerpt:
Evans’s pet peeve is the use of the word “biblical” as an adjective preceding “other loaded words, like economics, sexuality, politics, and marriage” [p. xx] (Why she calls these kinds of nouns “loaded” is an unanswered question). She wants to make doubly, triply and quadruply sure that we never, ever presume to use the word “biblical” selectively, since the Bible mentions many things that Evans finds patently “unbiblical.” You can’t have your cake and eat it, too, so you can’t believe that a woman should be silent in the church unless you also believe that woman can be one of multiple wives, as if the latter were a command of God. In fact, overall the book suffers from a common logical problem, that of the naturalistic fallacy: arguing from an “is” to an “ought.” For example, if Solomon had multiple wives and concubines, and God used him, then God approved of those wives and concubines, which is a lot like saying that God approved of Noah’s drunkenness because the Bible never condemns it and Noah is listed in Hebrews 11 as a person of faith.
The link above takes you to a post linking to all seven installments.
A Reminder
There are still a couple of days for you to sign up for the giveaway of Simonetta Carr’s bitesize biography of Renée of France at Out of the Ordinary.