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A La Carte (2/18)
- 02/18/10
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I will cede to the wishes of my readership (at least for the time being) and return to the traditional A La Carte format.
Christianity and McLarenism
Kevin DeYoung provides a lengthy smack-down of Brian McLaren and his latest book.
The Lordship of the Five Love Languages
Justin Taylor provides a summary of David Powlison’s powerful critique of Gary Chapman’s Five Love Languages franchise of books.
Did I Get Married Too Young
An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal discusses marrying young and dispels some of the more insidious statistical lies about marrying early. “Did I get married too young? I may not have the freedom to globetrot at my own leisure or to carouse at a bar late into the night. But when I step into our 500-square-foot one-bedroom apartment, warmly lighted and smelling of fresh flowers and baked bread, I do have the freedom to kiss my beautiful wife and best friend—the woman I pledged to always love and cherish, and to raise a family with. I have no regrets. “
Robert Morrison Project
This looks like a very interesting project. “The Robert Morrison Project is a non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to legally translating and publishing reformed literature in China and other South East Asian countries. Our aim is to focus on areas of the world where the church faces great hardship and often has no access to quality Christian literature.”
Chris Coghlan
I love reading articles like this one at MLB.com. Joe Frisaro writes about the faith of Marlins player Chris Coghlan, a committed Christian.
Christianity and McLarenism
Kevin DeYoung provides a lengthy smack-down of Brian McLaren and his latest book.
The Lordship of the Five Love Languages
Justin Taylor provides a summary of David Powlison’s powerful critique of Gary Chapman’s Five Love Languages franchise of books.
Did I Get Married Too Young
An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal discusses marrying young and dispels some of the more insidious statistical lies about marrying early. “Did I get married too young? I may not have the freedom to globetrot at my own leisure or to carouse at a bar late into the night. But when I step into our 500-square-foot one-bedroom apartment, warmly lighted and smelling of fresh flowers and baked bread, I do have the freedom to kiss my beautiful wife and best friend—the woman I pledged to always love and cherish, and to raise a family with. I have no regrets. “
Robert Morrison Project
This looks like a very interesting project. “The Robert Morrison Project is a non-profit, non-denominational organization dedicated to legally translating and publishing reformed literature in China and other South East Asian countries. Our aim is to focus on areas of the world where the church faces great hardship and often has no access to quality Christian literature.”
Chris Coghlan
I love reading articles like this one at MLB.com. Joe Frisaro writes about the faith of Marlins player Chris Coghlan, a committed Christian.
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Comments (14)
yay! I have missed this format of A La Carte!
Considering what great pains DeYoung goes to in order to avoid (as much as possible) controversy based on the language (or “charity”) that he uses as opposed to the content of his review, I found it thoroughly entertaining that you used the word “smackdown” to describe it…
I agree! Please keep this format!
“I will cede to the wishes of my readership…”
LOVE that opening line to your post Tim. ;)
Glad we the readers were able to put ‘the pressure’ on ya to return to the ‘old school’ format of A La Carte. ;)
Looking forward to the links you send us to. Thanks.
Hooray for A La Carte!
“But when I step into our 500-square-foot one-bedroom apartment, warmly lighted and smelling of fresh flowers and baked bread, I do have the freedom to kiss my beautiful wife and best friend….”
….and then I wake up….
Two things:
1) THANK YOU for bringing this back. However, I also respect your reasons for changing given how you’re trying to restructure your life. I have a lot of respect for that.
2) It’s interesting to read that Coghlan called Desme a “brother in Christ,” even though Desme left baseball to become a Roman Catholic priest.
Thanks for coming back to this format (even through the demands of your readers).Love it!
Tim, I agree with Jason Chamberlain. I appreciate you bringing back this format as I really enjoy the information provided here. That being said, I wouldn’t want you to appease your readership at the sacrifice of your spiritual growth. If you don’t have time for “A La Carte” in this format then we will survive without it.
Also, thank you so much for the time and energy that you put into this website. I have been exposed to so many wonderful things through your efforts. Very grateful.
Like so many others, I delight in seeing A La Carte filled to the brim aka “old style.” The article on marrying too young is exceptional and the article about Chapman’s love languages well worth considering and thinking about. I would have seen neither without A La Carte. That makes A La Carte pretty valuable stuff to me - a teacher and preacher who has the opportunity to influence hundreds of people.
Maybe what you need is an A La Carte staff. If you had some trusted folks who sifted stuff for you and presented you with A La Carte ideas it probably wouldn’t take long to put together really good A La Carte every day. You’d approve the list, add to it what you saw, etc. and up it’d go. People could even email what they see to the “staff.”
It’s what Moses’ father-in-law Jethro suggested - “get some help, man!” ;-)
I guess I should’ve spoken up sooner. The article you wrote on technology and the revamping of ala carte was one of your best and most challenging, and I have begun implementing a lot of what you said in my own life. I for one loved the new format and quite agreed with you on the reasons you gave. Do what you believe to be right. It is amazing to me the way people begin to whine and complain when you even suggest a curtailing of their instant easy access to media, let alone the outcry if you dare to put into practice what you have been led to believe. It only goes to prove the point that we are way too addicted. Internet is a luxury not a right.
Thanks Tim. I really appreciate this part of your blog. It’s helpful to me as a busy pastor to have a good source to go to and get a broad picture of what’s current on the web. Thanks for your ministry.
Tim,
I’m curious to know why you are ceding to your readership when you sounded so convicted this was a change you needed to make? I would like to hear your answer on this. Thanks!
Hi Tim — I missed your original post about how the A La Carte section was changing and why. But I am glad to see it looking like its old self again. However, I appreciate what you do and will trust your discernment in how it’s presented.
Regarding McLaren — I’ve not read his new book but it’s with something of a sigh of relief that I read from you and Kevin (among others) that he seems to finally have really shown his hand at last. While I hope and pray that God gets hold of these men (i.e. Rob Bell, Doug Pagitt, Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, etc.) and opens their eyes to the truth of the Bible and the stark, unique, unchanging/able beauty of the gospel I also agree for now with many who have called the wolves.
They are wolves. By wrapping their true theology up in Bibley-sounding phrases and arguments, they confuse and draw away many from the truth of the gospel. I find this especially chilling because I realize how prone I would have been even a few years ago to being drawn in to the Emergent movement. It all sounds so … NICE. But it’s not nice. It isn’t Biblical. It isn’t the truth.
A concise and insightful look at the Emergents on the whole that I found helpful was that given by Driscoll in Religion Saves. The overview, with direct quotes from many, gave a great zoomed-out look at the movement and the roots of so much of what’s going on.
So thank you for sounding the call so clearly, and I thank Kevin, too.