{"product_id":"a-serrated-edge","title":"A Serrated Edge: A Defense of Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking","description":"\u003ch1 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/canonpress.link\/wokebapdistskindle\" style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eChristians think that making fun of people is never okay. If so, then why did Jesus and the prophets do so much of it?\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-value=\"{\u0026quot;1\u0026quot;:2,\u0026quot;2\u0026quot;:\u0026quot;We tend to think being \\\u0026quot;stressed out\\\u0026quot; is a normal state of affairs, and that contentment means sitting back and just bottling things up. For the Christian, however, contentment is something we must apply, work at, and make our own in every circumstance, because anxiety and frustration are not neutral behaviors.\\nIt is certainly easier to go with our natural impulses when times are very hard or even just \\\u0026quot;annoying,\\\u0026quot; but contentment is an important part of our Christian life. Even the apostle Paul had to \\\u0026quot;learn\\\u0026quot; contentment. So we shouldn't wonder why we're still in spiritual kindergarten—repeating the same lessons over and over again—if we haven't given ourselves to study contentment. Thankfully, every test God gives on contentment is open book (even the pop quizzes!). In Learning Contentment, Nancy Wilson looks to the Bible and Puritans like Jeremiah Burroughs, Samuel Rutherford, Thomas Watson, and Charles Spurgeon to help us develop the practical, spiritual strength and the perspective that comes from contentment's deep satisfaction with the will of God. This encouraging little book follows after Nancy Wilson's Virtuous: A Study for Ladies of Every Age. Learning Contentment includes concise explanations, application questions and assignments that will involve and challenge everyone, and lots of biblical wisdom for individuals and groups.\u0026quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}'\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #6fa8dc;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/I-106.pdf?2572\" title=\"Serrated Edge Look Inside the Book Sample\" style=\"color: #6fa8dc; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eLook Inside the Book\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eor \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/canonpress.com\/app\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #2b00ff;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eListen on Canon+\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSatire is a kind of preaching. Satire pervades Scripture. Satire treats the foibles of sinners with a less than perfect tenderness. But if a Christian employs satire today, he is almost immediately called to account for his \"insensitive\" and \"unloving\" behavior. But is the Golden Rule really \"be nice\"? Actually, Scripture shows that the central point of some religious controversies is to give offense. When Christ was confronted with ecclesiastical obstinacy and other forms of arrogance, He showed us a godly pattern for giving offense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn every controversy godliness and wisdom (or the lack of them) are to be determined by careful appeal to the Scriptures and not the fact of people having taken offense. In this book, veteran satirist Douglas Wilson explains his rationale for why so much of what he says gets people upset and yet he continues to speak as he does, and why you should (sometimes) too for the sake of the Gospel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can also purchase this as an audiobook here, on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.audible.com\/pd\/B07D9385RR\/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-117051\u0026amp;ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_117051_rh_us\" title=\"Serrated Edge on Audible\"\u003eaudible\u003c\/a\u003e,* and on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/audiobook\/407655342\/A-Serrated-Edge-A-Brief-Defense-of-Biblical-Satire-and-Trinitarian-Skylarking\"\u003eSCRIBD\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* All purchases made through this link will earn us a small commission through Amazon Associates, an affiliate program.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Douglas Wilson's playful, yet serious-minded book ... makes a persuasive argument that Christ himself was no verbal pacifist, and that indeed He used satire and irony to devastating effect.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Daniel Horace Fernald, in \u003cem\u003eAtheism Answered \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As always, the author Doug Wilson delivers with wit, wisdom and humor along the way.... Overall a good book I recommend, and it should make Christians aware of not assuming Victorian prudish expectations to be the same thing as Christian ethics. I’ve highlighted and written all over my copy of this book as I was reading it–especially the principles given and the witty remarks and illustration. They get my mind fired up to adapt, discover and invent more witty sayings and illustration to make the point more forcibly for use in the pulpit and during evangelism and apologetics.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003eThe Domain of Truth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas Wilson\u003c\/strong\u003e has been pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, ID for forty years and is the author of more than fifty books including \u003cem\u003eEmpires of Dirt, Rules for Reformers, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Flags Out Front\u003c\/em\u003e. He blogs regularly at www.dougwils.com and can be heard weekly on \u003cem\u003eThe Plodcast\u003c\/em\u003e. Doug and Nancy have three children and lots of grandchildren.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0154\/4706\/4624\/files\/I-106.pdf?2572\" title=\"A Serrated Edge Sample\"\u003eLook Inside the Book\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAUTHOR: Douglas Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAGE COUNT: 128 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIZE: 5.50x8.50\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 10: 1591280109\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781591280101\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePUB. 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