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The Ayres Family Buried Eight Children – “Recently, we walked through the oldest cemetery in New Albany, Indiana, where the founders and many of our town’s first settlers are buried. We happened upon the family plot of a father, mother, and their eight children. These parents buried all of their sons and daughters before their oldest was even 20 years old. Contemplate this family’s story of hope-filled suffering.”

Feeling Shame Is Not Repentance – “Shame has its place, but feeling shame over sin is not the same thing as repentance from sin. Shame can come from wounded pride as much as it can come from our love for God. And when we allow the shame of one sin to lead us into more sin, the tempter can focus on small sins and still yield big results.”

The Best Way to Improve Your Preaching – Mike Leake has a good word on the best way to improve your preaching.

A Year of Biblical Womanhood – The forthcoming Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has a review of Rachel Held Evans’ book A Year of Biblical Womanhood. You can read the review now at CBMW.

Obstacles to Personal Devotions – David Murray lists eighteen obstacles to personal devotions in the digital age.

Ministry for Stay-at-Home Moms – At Practical Shepherding, Brian Croft tells how stay-at-home moms can have an especially effective ministry in a certain area of church life.

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

—R.C. Sproul

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    Robert Wolgemuth Was a Kind Man

    I don’t remember the first time I met Robert Wolgemuth, but I know it was when I was much younger and just beginning to get my bearings as a writer. At the time, I was beginning to consider whether it would be useful to retain a literary agent who would represent me to publishers. I…

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    A La Carte (January 21)

    A La Carte: The great Christian reset / Artists who refuse the hot take / A ministry of small things / The sin that so easily ensnares / The strict dietary laws / and more.

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    A Special Offer On Ten Great Books

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    A La Carte (January 20)

    A La Carte: When protest enters the sanctuary / Why I ditched my scrolling habit / Take sports betting seriously / The world runs on urgency / Sanctification hacks / Kindle deals / and more.

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    Why We Can Confidently Persevere in Prayer

    I remember the days when my children were younger and would ask me to give them something—then ask me again, and ask me again. At that age, they had no ability to gain or purchase these things for themselves, so they were entirely dependent upon their parents to grant their requests (which were usually for…

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    A La Carte (January 19)

    A La Carte: Learning to struggle / When “Stranger Things” stopped being strange / “If God Is For Us” / Reading as stewardship / A sermon you need to hear / Excellent Kindle deals / and more.