Curating these recommendations week after week for News From the Frontlines has been a joy for me, and I hope that it’s been encouraging for you. Indeed, as much as I love writing, there’s something refreshing about giving you a peek behind the curtain on those books, articles, and other resources which have blessed me, both as a writer and as a believer. And if my work here has been encouraging—whether my own writing or the material I’ve been sharing—please don’t hesitate to

Ours is something of a de facto illiterate culture. In practice, people know how to read; the issue is that they don’t read.

To Be Timeless / What Unique Platform Has God Given You to Glorify Him? / When Young Couples Are Afraid to Have Children / I Knew It! / “David’s Plea for Mercy” - Psalm 51 / How to Rightly Train Your Affections / Every Thought Captive

Should you manage to read a book a week over the course of your adult life, you will still have only read about 3,500 to 3,750 works in total—assuming, of course, that you began your reading journey at roughly age ten and continued diligently until around age 80, according to the math, or until your death—whichever should come first.

The Biblical Remedy For Anxiety / ‘The Odyssey’ and the End of the World / How Not to be a Functional Atheist on Your Vacation / In A World Of False Conversions / How Can I Know That I Am Really Saved? / Why Do We Confess If Our Sins Are Already Forgiven? / Re-Enchanting the Christian Mind

The early morning breeze whistled through the pines, making its way past any outerwear and into our bundled forms that were still masked by fog and shadow. With the warmth of the rising sun trailing close behind, the pre-dawn light began stretching its golden limbs across the forest which was now slowly rousing from its short summer slumber.

Reviewing Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” / 15 Great Books to Get You Started / Klavens On The Culture / How to Read More Books / How to Set Up a Pocket Notebook You’ll Use Every Day / Rediscovering the Joy of Writing / How I Write So Fast (And You Can Too!)

Life hasn’t always been easy, and the way hasn’t always been clear. But when I reflect on the life I’ve been given—on the Savior who loved me and died for me, on my Heavenly home, on my wife and the eternal friendship in which we share in Christ as both lovers and friends, on our little son and the little life we’ve been given—I find myself thanking the Lord with those very same words of David.

Men With Chests / Genetics and Sin / Everything I Might Have Been / Sometimes, God’s Intervention IS Our Suffering / The Nail in the Coffin of Our Hearts / The New Birth and Conversion—What Comes First? / The Redemptive Power of “Project Hail Mary”

Not everyone leaves their hometown. Perhaps such folks find themselves lingering in a place far longer than they ever thought; they had intentions to go abroad for a great adventure at some point, only it never materialized. Not, at least, in the way they had once expected.

God’s Children Really Will Live Happily Ever After / The Infinite Gulf / Spurgeon’s Surprising View on Aliens / Six Realities for the Anxious Soul / Act in Accordance With Your Prayers / A Theology of Exercise / Can Math Prove God?

Have you ever paused to consider how a place comes to find itself haunted? Haunted in the old-fashioned sense of the word: laden heavily with experience, nostalgia, and memory, rather than the modern fare of ghosts, spirits, and phantoms.

Crushed By Past Regrets? / Would You Attend Your Son’s Execution? / The Delightful Duty of Married Sex / Will Britain finally awaken? / The Quiet Crisis of Prayerless Orthodoxy / How Can We Give Generously without Worrying? / The Joy of Patriotism

A few months ago, I took up swimming. What began purely as a means of exercise soon blossomed into something of a religious experience—though not in the kooky, New Age-y way, mind you.

Death, Grief, and Frodo’s Incurable Wound / The Bible Is Never Enough / Saying Goodbye to Moses / No Service for Jesus Is Small / Writing is Pain, But Environment Can Help / Ask Whatever I Wish? / The Holiness of God

Good evening, everyone. My name is Joshua Budimlic, and I am Dakota’s oldest and only brother. You may recognize me as the man who had the honor of walking Dakota down the aisle only a few short hours ago.

Welcome to News From the Frontlines! Over the past several years at Iotas in Eternity, I have been so heavily focused on content creation that I’ve sorely neglected content curation.

In a fallen world, hospitals are perplexing places. They can represent the very best of times, such as the birth of a child, and the very worst of times, as with the death of a loved one. Indeed, life and death are so often held in the palms of a simple hospital bed.

At Iotas in Eternity, it has not been, nor will it ever be, my desire to chase trends and fleeting headlines. Does this mean that my work may be viewed less than it otherwise would be? Perhaps—but so be it.

Our son was born only a few days ago, and already I cannot possibly imagine our little family without him.

As my wife and I anticipate the birth of our son in only a few days, my thoughts have often turned to the Lord’s manifold purposes in seasons of waiting—waiting for an answer to prayer, for an open door, for healing, for relief, for employment, for retirement, for a child to come, for a child to return, and all else between.

What does it mean to be a Christian? Among other things, a Christian is quite simply a follower of Jesus Christ—one who submits to Him as Lord and Savior, who joyfully puts themselves under the yoke of obedience to Him and His word. Just as those who were subjects of Herod in the first century were called “Herodians,” those belonging to Christ were labeled as “Christians.” In Acts 11:26, we read how “in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.” Whether the moniker

Where there are many dishes there are many mouths; many to love, serve, and provide for. And more than that, God delights to dirty those dishes day in and day out with all manner of provisions and patrons. Clean dishes are fine and well and good for decoration, but far better they be filled and dirtied with food, no matter how simple.

“You’re going to be a dad soon!” With our son’s due date swiftly approaching, I find that Elaina and I are being told more and more these days how we’re going to become parents in a few short weeks.