Works & Wonders (September 27)
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Works & Wonders: Small World, Voices, BingeBrowse, The Bayeux Tapestry Story, One Bedroom Apartment, Earth Music Theater, and a Sunday Devotional
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Weekend A La Carte (September 26)
The IVF industry doesn’t want you to ask questions / What worship will God not accept? / Why Arab armies don’t win wars / A conclusion in search of evidence / The MLB team upending batting orders / The Pangram backlash / Reader recommendations / and more.
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Free Stuff Fridays (New Growth Press)
Free Stuff Fridays: Win one of five copies of Shepherding Time!
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When Sleep Won’t Come
One of the great battles of my life has been the battle to get a good night’s sleep. While I have some periods of success, I always know that another bout of insomnia is never far away.
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A La Carte (September 25)
Why Christians should delete social media / What should you look for in a church? / You can’t be self-made / An appeal to husbands who have been unfaithful / Do we make too much or too little of angels? / Michael Scott’s Christian nationalism / and more.
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A La Carte (September 24)
We were waiting to die / A warning for the living dead / Young people turning to AI for friendship / Raising kids in a sports obsessed world / Why children still need manners / The mark of the beast / 10 reasons why Marxism is bad news / and more.
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Narnia Among the Deathworks
Meryl Streep voices a Bowie-inspired and rainbow-striped Aslan. Is Greta Gerwig’s Narnia a tribute to C.S. Lewis, or a deathwork that profanes what he made?
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A La Carte (September 23)
2 ways to fail your child / The lost luggage afterlife / How to have a soft heart / The secret strength in seeing weakness / What do pastors do with all their time? / Thirty-five questions for maturing a Christian marriage / Sales and deals.
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A La Carte (September 22)
On women who think they regret motherhood / John Piper’s six traits of a forgettable sermon / 6 ways a Christian husband cherishes his wife / Two ways to worry about AI / Where will 35,385 people pray? / Four questions every counselor must be able to answer regarding suffering
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The Riddle of Time: Shepherding What God Has Given
Scripture offers a freeing perspective on our time. The responsibilities and expectations are not riddles to be solved with a better app. God presents time as a stewardship to be shepherded, one that reveals what we actually believe about him, ourselves, and the Kingdom we serve.
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A Pair of Important Lessons from the Demise of G3
G3 Ministries is no longer in operation. Here are two lessons I have drawn from its demise: a founder’s weaknesses go deep, and right action is not always sufficient action.
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A La Carte (September 21)
Your social media feed doesn’t tell the whole story / Meet the first embryo ever adopted / The sports gambling epidemic is getting worse / You are not your trials / Why Aslan is male / We know what kind of society we are: we’re just haggling over the price / Kindle deals
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Works & Wonders (September 20)
Works & Wonders: New music, fall migration, the perfect photo, Abide with Me at a royal funeral, underground aqueducts.
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Weekend A La Carte (September 19)
Apple’s new parental controls for your kid’s iPhone / A theology of music / Canada’s MAiD regime: how we became a world leader in assisted death / Are evangelical worship songs driving young men to Eastern Orthodoxy? / An open letter to Greta Gerwig / The future of woke / and more.
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Free Stuff Fridays (The Good Book Company)
Enter to win 1 of 3 Be Changed Bundles and learn how God is at work in you (even when it doesn’t feel like it).
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Helping Pastors Shepherd Their Time Well
I have had the privilege of traveling across the world to visit local churches located on each of earth’s inhabited continents. I have been able to meet with pastors who minister in fast-paced world cities and in slow-paced rural villages. I have been able to spend time with pastors who are at the cutting edge…
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A La Carte (September 18)
You must go on. You can’t go on. You will go on. / Am I good enough? / Pause AI for humanity’s sake / Where is God when sleep won’t come? / The Beholding Method / A pastor’s wife’s rules for marriage. / The Funnies / and more.
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A La Carte (September 17)
Rosaria Butterfield on Christian women and porn / Ministry embellishment / Why Gen Z is lonely and what to do about it / How should I deal with my anger? / Why we said ‘no’ to IVF and ‘yes’ to embryo adoption / Are you a contentious wife?
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Should You Read Books by Fallen Pastors?
I recently saw a photo that alarmed me. Several men were participating in a panel discussion at a major conference, and I realized that almost all of them had either died or been disqualified from leadership—two very different ways for a ministry to come to an end.
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A La Carte (September 16)
10 tech protection strategies for your kids and their friends / Why Protestants are drawn to Catholicism and Orthodoxy / What if AI devastates the world? / A husband’s call after miscarriage / Live outside of the Christian bubble / Is predestination fair? / New movie trailers.
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A La Carte (September 15)
Emotional affairs: am I in one? How do I get out? / Who’s ruling your home? / You think you’re willing to die for Christ, but will you work in the nursery for him? / Gluttony in the age of GLP-1s / Invite God into your anxieties / Vipers in diapers? / Book sale.
