Works & Wonders (September 6)
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Works & Wonders: Beautiful creation / Photography awards / Blackwing pencils / World’s narrowest islands / Be a stowaway / Vanished Vikings.
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Weekend A La Carte (September 5)
The cities that said yes to drugs / Just bury your trash / The rise of transactional relationships / Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity / How much is that gene-edited dog in the window? / Covenantal theology / Reader recommendations / and more.
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Free Stuff Fridays (P&R Publishing)
Free Stuff Fridays: Devotional Giveaway!
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In His Utter Despair, He Began to Sing
A review of Matt Boswell’s Create in Me a Clean Heart. He takes a slow walk through Psalm 51—a manual for repentance, renewal, and understanding God’s mercy.
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A La Carte (September 4)
Should I tell my spouse about past sins? / How do I live in God’s presence every day? / How can I summarize marriage in one word? / John Piper: why did Jesus call her a dog? / How to pray when you feel like you pray the same thing every day / How should…
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A La Carte (September 3)
Should I plead my righteousness? / Don’t let AI steal your blessing / The ministry of saying less / Science can’t tell us the most amazing things about the human body / Who are the 144,000? / Rummaging through bins / What I’m enjoying / and more.
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What a Church Can Do Before a Pastor Falls
Christian, your pastor may someday fall. I certainly hope that’s never the case, and I hope he, like the great majority of his peers, remains qualified to the very end of his time in ministry. But even though it may be unlikely that his ministry collapses under the weight of scandal, immorality, or disqualification, it…
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A La Carte (September 2)
You don’t have to dread your vocation / Porn brain will destroy us / I’m praying for you / I joined a violent Chicago gang / The staggering beauty and burden of church life / The greatest in the kingdom / New book releases / Logos and Kindle deals.
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A La Carte (September 1)
Should I homeschool my kids? / Melissa’s advice for a young bride / How to help your children build relationships with Christian mentors / A crack in Big Tech’s armor / Plagiarism and the preacher / Five ways God’s people minister God’s grace to each other / and more.
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Parents, Do You Protect Your Children’s Dignity When You Discipline Them?
I often think about the time my family visited a church and sat close to a child who was behaving quite badly. Because he was only a couple of rows ahead of us, we could hardly fail to notice that he was sitting neither still nor quiet.
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A La Carte (August 31)
Young woman, what’s your legacy? / When unhealed illness brings shame / Healing came quietly / Mourning our “lasts” / 2026 is Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment / Pastoral fortitude / Kindle and book deals.
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Works & Wonders (August 30)
Works & Wonders: Stunning Animals, Beautiful Bibles, Hidden Treasure, Mathematical Rivers, and Companies that Are Worse on Purpose
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Weekend A La Carte (August 29)
Weekend A La Carte: An unbelieving child / Nothing is original / The most measured woman / Blind, deaf, dumb / Your recommendations / An overlooked argument / and more.
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Free Stuff Fridays (Zondervan Reflective)
Free Stuff Fridays: Win a copy of The Wisdom of Sleep!
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New and Notable Christian Books for August 2026
August is often a fairly quiet month for new book releases, sitting as it does between the busy spring and fall seasons. However, there were lots of excellent books published this month, and I’m glad to share some of them with you.
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A La Carte (August 28)
Are you losing heart? / Why we don’t have insane asylums anymore / Walking alongside parents of LGBTQ+ identifying children / The England I knew is gone / Learning from the Jason Arday tragedy / What is a liturgy, and should we have one? / Book and Kindle deals.
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A La Carte (August 27)
Christian, your suffering isn’t pointless / What did Jesus mean by “cut off your hand”? / The parent blaming generation / Seasons of marriage / I refuse to give up printed books / Why good stories have bad examples / and more.
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It’s Not Too Late to Make This a Great Year of Bible Reading
There is something that can happen when one year begins to ebb and another lies just over the horizon. It is something that can happen in those areas where our disciplines have grown lax and our habits have begun to wane.
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A La Carte (August 26)
Help! My child is entering puberty / Lindsay Clancy and the problem of therapy culture / What drives parents to frustration / The abortion pioneer who became a pro-life champion / What your church owns is not ultimately yours / Free stuff / and more.
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A La Carte (August 25)
US missionary freed after 9 months’ captivity / Sharing suffering / The Lord will keep your children’s lives / The real reason Iran is persecuting Christians / Dinesh D’Souza’s case against Calvinism, answered / Canadian military chaplains can’t mention God in public / Do religious families actually have more kids?
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Sleep as an Act of Faith
Every night, lying down to sleep is a small enactment of death and resurrection. Hear from Brett McCracken on what our nightly surrender teaches us about trusting God’s sovereignty in this excerpt from The Wisdom of Sleep, on the blog today.
