A La Carte (June 17)

A La Carte: Don’t tolerate secret sin / Stability in a world of chaos / Advice to a young father / Marriage yields compound interest / Diabolus Ex Machina / Gifts guaranteed in prayer / and more.
A La Carte: Don’t tolerate secret sin / Stability in a world of chaos / Advice to a young father / Marriage yields compound interest / Diabolus Ex Machina / Gifts guaranteed in prayer / and more.
We are taught to cast great visions and dream big dreams…
A La Carte: The freedom of being fully seen / Churchiness is back / Man-made marvels / Michael Tait’s confession / Church membership is inescapable / Rebaptism / Kindle deals / and more.
A woman from Samaria was once conversing with Jesus and puzzling over the answer to an age-old question: Where is the right place to worship? After all, the Jews and Samaritans worshipped in different places, each convinced theirs was the right and best place. But Jesus answered in a way neither Jew nor Samaritan would…
A La Carte: Diapers of glory / The manipulator / A censorious spirit / Know your teenage child’s frame / Even if he doesn’t / How can I be a godly father?
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The Bible lays out a whole list of qualifications that must be present in the life of a man who wishes to be a pastor. He must be the husband of one wife, he must be a lover of good, he must be hospitable, and so on. Meanwhile, he must not be arrogant, quick-tempered, violent,…
A La Carte: A northern warning / Are my struggles personal or demonic? / Being the best Christian / UnOriginal sin / The importance of competence / Patterns false teachers follow / and more.
A La Carte: Helping the poor / Screen time sabbaticals / A right way to pray / Thinking too little of yourself / Rehabilitating ministers / Christianity speaks to everything / and more.
I’ve heard that it was an old nautical tradition that when a boat sailed across the Atlantic, the passengers would spend the first half of the voyage raising their glasses to friends astern—to the ones who had seen them off and bid them a fond farewell.
A La Carte: The Quiet Revival caution / The secrets we keep / Compromising Evangelical elites / Pastors only work 30 minutes a week / Baptists, be proud of your tradition / Kindle deals / and more.
A La Carte: Should Christians practice surrogacy? / Intentional simplicity / I feel like I’m taking crazy pills / Prayers to renew the way you work / Why I chose not to believe in Jesus / and more.
One Lord. One Faith. One Gospel. In 325 A.D., pastors gathered in the city of Nicea to proclaim the full divinity of Jesus Christ. Seventeen centuries later, we’re gathering again—this time in Istanbul—to remember that moment, rejoice in our shared confession, and renew our commitment to the gospel. Join us October 22–25, 2025, in Istanbul,…
How much am I actually becoming holier and how much am I just becoming wearier? How much have I really grown in sanctification and how much am I just too tired to be bothered pursuing sin?
A La Carte: Hitler and Jesus / Why young women fear dating / The mass trauma of porn / Christian books with unintended consequences/ Pentecostal not provincial / Her name is Sarah / Kindle deals / and more.
We know that prayer is a crucial discipline for the individual believer, but how often do we consider that it is also a crucial discipline for the assembled church? The Bible prescribes only a few elements for local church worship, but among them is prayer.
A La Carte: The most important quality in church musicians / Don’t make friends with doubt / The midlife spiritual plateau / There’ll be no sighing there / Because Jesus said so / and more.
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We are now several generations into digital living, several generations into learning to live with the constant presence of connected mobile devices. For most of us, it is rare that we are beyond the glow of a screen or outside the influence of an app.
A La Carte: No chance of survival / I just don’t get why she’s sad / Trusting God after losing everything / We rehearse the acts of the Lord / The ministry of prayer / and more.
A La Carte: The dangerous secret young men are keeping / Gratitude for closed doors / Sex, love, and marriage in Africa / Why and how to begin Scripture writing / Seeing myself more clearly / Trust the process / Kindle deals / and more.
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