A La Carte (09/06)

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Wednesday September 6, 2006

Music: Jars of Clay just released a new album and AOL is offering the full version for free via streaming audio. You can get it here or here (the second seems to work best for Firefox).

Music Bonus: And while we are on the subject of music, don’t forget that Derek Webb has begun offering his latest album (Mockingbird) for free. It’s a great album and well worth owning. You can get it at freederekwebb.com.

Blog: “Pulpit Magazine,” the online magazine of the Shepherd’s Fellowship, has just moved. It looks like it will be updated daily and will be well worth reading.

Book: The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is giving away John Piper’s book “Don’t Waste Your Life.” You can’t beat free!

A La Carte (5/31)

Thursday May 31, 2007 Music: Mark Roberts has some interesting questions and reflections on the sheer convenience of downloading music from iTunes. Music: While on the subject of music, the good folks at Sovereign Grace are offering a free song from an interesting new project called “Asleep in a Storm” which presents remixes of some…

May 31, 2007

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A La Carte (1/9)

Parents, Cuddle Your Children – This is my takeaway from a rather interesting article: “No matter how obvious the observation, how eternal the topic, how great the works of literature that have tackled any given theme, or how insightful the philosophers who have studied a matter, the modern mind cannot fathom reaching a conclusion without…

Jan 9, 2012

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A La Carte (1/30)

Tuesday January 30, 2007 Du Jour: Julian reflects on the “inadequacy” of language to describe God. Music: Derek Webb releases a new album today composed of acoustic versions of some of his hits (which, in my opinion, were already plenty acoustic). You can read a review here. Sounds like this one may be for only…

Jan 30, 2007

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Invisible Grief

There is no path through this life that does not involve at least some measure of grief. This world is so broken that at different times and in different ways, grief affects us all. Some grief flows from what we loved and lost but other grief flows from what has never been and may never…

Feb 6

Book Reviews

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A La Carte (February 6)

A La Carte: The need for father-scholars / Teach your kids what to think / The fading of the flower / Playing God with children / Softly break a bone / Kindle deals / and more.

Feb 6

A La Carte

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A La Carte (February 5)

A La Carte: Life is a vapor / Jelly Roll and Billie Eilish / Did God need to kill his Son? / Should we forgive apart from repentance? / His Mercy Is More / Worship / and more.

Feb 5

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Tiptoeing to the Edge of Cliffs

Not too long ago, there was a trend in which people would see how close they could come to being hit by a train without actually being hit by a train. That’s about as stupid a game as I can imagine. Play stupid games, win stupid games, as the kids say. But researching sin when…

Feb 4

Articles

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A La Carte (February 4)

A La Carte: Jesus loves the self-righteous sinner / How churches began using grape juice / Stop praying “in your name” / We aren’t very good at rest / The greatest theological statement ever written / and more.

Feb 4

A La Carte

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A La Carte (February 3)

A La Carte: Scheduling hospitality / False teachers / Dating Christian women / Stoking the fire / Origins of the evil one / Love and accept / Kindle deals / and more.

Feb 3

A La Carte

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New and Notable Christian Books for January 2026

As you know, I like to do my best to sort through the new Christian books that are released each month to see what stands out as being not only new but also particularly notable. I received quite a number of books in January and narrowed the list down to the ones below. I have…

Jan 29

Resources

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Lots of Single Christians but Few Weddings

I find it one of the great mysteries of the modern church. It does not exist in every context and every congregation, but as I’ve traveled and inquired, I’ve become convinced it exists in a great many of them. Here is the mystery: A lot of churches have many single men and many single women…

Feb 5, 2025

Articles

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Amplify Not a Fool by Responding to His Folly

Where you think your wisdom may make the fool better, it’s more likely that his folly will make you worse. You are more likely to stoop to his level than he is to rise to yours. Ironically, fools can be clever at times and wise men naive, for the fool has an intuitive understanding of…

Jan 28

Articles

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Love Is the Interpreter

There have been a few bands and musicians I did not particularly care for when I first heard their music. I came across them on a cassette or CD in the old days, or on YouTube or Apple Music in more recent days, and found that their music didn’t really resonate. I set them aside…

Feb 2

Articles

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Books to Help Parents With Tech

Christian parents are well-served with books meant to inform and equip them as they lead their families. Here are some of my top picks for parents who want to faithfully disciple their children to live well in a world of smartphones, social media, AI, and a host of other world-shaping technologies.

Jan 30

Articles

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