W4YW: Facing Cancer, Digital Leadership, & Holy Hip-Hop

Wisdom For Your Weekend: your weekly installment of things we’ve been reading around the web.

Video of the Week

Courage in the Midst of Cancer, WRAL. This is a moving feature on the Summit’s own 17-year-old Noah Spivey, as he clings to Christ in the midst of severe adversity.

Articles of the Week

Your Kids Know Your Marriage Is Under Attack Before You Do, Joshua Reich. A casual joke about your spouse isn’t a big deal, is it? “We’re just having fun with each other, and that’s how we show it.” No harm done, right? But what if that joke was the tip of the iceberg, and the first people to notice the lurking disaster were your children?

Smartphones Make You Tired and Unproductive, Melissa Korn, Wall Street Journal. “For a productive day at work tomorrow, give the smartphone a rest tonight. Reading and sending work email on a smartphone late into the evening doesn’t just make it harder to get a decent night’s sleep. New research findings show it also exhausts workers by morning and leaves them disengaged by the next afternoon.”

The Christian Leader in the Digital Age, Albert Mohler. Lest you assume that I’m just an anti-technology luddite, here is a counter-balance to the previous article. Mohler makes a stinging rebuke against those who refuse to engage with the “digital world” because they would rather lead in the “real world.” “If the leader is not leading in the digital world, his leadership is, by definition, limited to those who also ignore or neglect that world, and that population is shrinking every minute. The clock is ticking.”

This Is What Happens When Hip-Hop Lets the Saints In, Jon Ward, Huffington Post. An extensive and illuminating feature of Christian hip-hop artist, Lecrae: “Lecrae’s attempt to infiltrate popular culture while retaining a clearly Christian message is a difficult task, but he embodies a larger trend inside Western Christianity. Lecrae is one of many modern evangelicals who have rejected the path set by the combative “Moral Majority” culture warriors of the 1980s, and instead embraced an assimilation into the mainstream and its formative institutions, hoping to shape it from within.”

On The Lighter Side

All of the browsing of Netflix, with none of the movies! This should save me both time and money, and has been far too long in the making.