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Fred Sanders at the Scriptorium offers a brief theology of sleep:

At the very least, sleep is a good opportunity to entrust yourself, your entire self, to God’s care. You’re trusting something when you lay down your body and, with it, the control of your conscious mind. That moment when you consciously choose unconsciousness, and let yourself go, is a daily opportunity to relinquish control to a God who you have to trust.

Sleep is good practice for death. It’s good preparation for life with that same God who you’re going to have to trust eventually. And it’s worth asking for sweet dreams, because he gives sleep to his beloved, and he gives to his beloved in their sleep.

I’m picking it up a little late, but Doug Groothuis lists his New Year’s refusals (rather than resolutions) for 2007. I love this guy.

The Constructive Curmudgeon: Fifteeen Refusals for 2007

Justin Taylor inspired me today with his post Yes to Mess. Bottom line: high-earning, intelligent, productive people have messy desks. I actually got my desk cleaned off during my Christmas vacation, so I guess I better start cluttering it up again.

Steve Camp sums up the Doctrines of Grace: “God has saved me from Himself, and yet, unto Himself.”

CAMPONTHIS: The Heart of the Reformation: the Doctrines of Grace

John Piper writes that doctrine, not self-identification, is the barometer by which American Evangelicalism ought to be measured.

“Survey shows that having a biblical worldview changes the way evangelicals live,” the tag line reads. John Piper muses, “Who would have thought that the very survey system that lures so many to put their finger in the wind of opinion would tell them, take your finger down and teach the people what the Bible says?”

The Doctrine Difference