A La Carte (October 8)
A La Carte: Watch your language / Are we tired of the ordinary? / Her view from the pew / Who am I to question my captain’s orders? / What I want to leave to my family when I die / Why God made sheep / and more.
Explore October 2025
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Christian Books on Sale for Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days
On October 7-8, Amazon is hosting Big Deal Days for people who have a Prime membership. They have a huge number of items on sale, covering most product categories. Of course, my interest is in books and Bibles and, thankfully, there are lots of great deals to be had (in printed, not Kindle editions). Most are discounted by…
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A La Carte (October 7)
A La Carte: Take it on the chin / The Archbishop of Canterbury and the slide into irrelevance / A quick change to improve your sermons / Hymns for the end of life / Cultivating gratitude / Huge book sale / and more.
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How Do You Know If God Is Calling You?
How do you know if God is calling you to ministry? In this article, Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. explains how to discern God’s call—through both an inward drawing and the confirming voice of the church. Ministry is a high and holy calling. Could God be calling you? #Sponsored
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How Much Money Is God Not Concerned About?
Here is the kind of question I sometimes enjoy pondering: How much money is God not really concerned about? I guess I’d better explain what I mean by that. If someone told me a wealthy neighbor was handing out $100 bills to anyone who dropped by, no strings attached, I would immediately go over and…
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A La Carte (October 6)
A La Carte: In the ruins of Rome / Evaluating fictional magic / We still need gentlemen / Your Father’s care / Loving your wife like Christ loves / Meditation / Kindle deals / and more.
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For Some Churches, No Gimmick Is Too Crass
Many of us live in contexts and cultures in which there is fierce competition among churches, each advertising itself as more interesting, more appealing, more entertaining than the others. It sometimes seems that no gimmick is too crass and no strategy too absurd for these churches as they attempt to one-up the others and fill…
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Weekend A La Carte (October 4)
A La Carte: Gospel hospitality / K-Pop Demon Hunters / Does appearance matter? / Teenagers and mental health / A post-literate culture / Even more Kindle deals.
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Free Stuff Fridays (Lifeway)
Free Stuff Fridays: Book Giveaway! #Sponsored
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Zero Gravity
While making a long journey across the world and enduring the fatigue that comes with it, I thought it would be nice to enjoy some light reading along the way. I mean it as no pun when I say Zero Gravity proved to be just the thing.
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A La Carte (October 3)
A La Carte: Conrad Mbewe and Voddie Baucham / Piper on the evil that stuns heaven / Paths we did not choose / The hollow comfort of AI / The nuance of healing / Made for approval / and more.
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A La Carte (October 2)
A La Carte: Tyler Robinson and the violence of porn / MacArthur, Sproul, Kirk, and the Queen / Conspiracy theories / The laughing revival / Let kids read dangerous stories / Why are Christians hung up on sex? / So many Kindle deals.
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When I Worship a Number
I am a long way from retirement—from pulling back from the full-time day-to-day responsibilities of my vocation to instead begin winding down and preparing to step away. I am a long way from retirement, but not so far away that I can neglect planning for it. So, like most of my peers …
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A La Carte (October 1)
A La Carte: A banner day for Kindle deals / One of my biggest fears / Ways to pray for the lost / Body image and women’s discipleship / Birth stories you didn’t expect / Human-chimp similarity / and more.