A La Carte (10/21)

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Expelled on DVD
Today Ben Stein’s Expelled releases on DVD.

Jurassic Trailer Park
Jurassic Trailer Park is the strange name of a good article (and/or photo essay) by Michael Yon. He writes about just one little experience in Afghanistan.

Service
While on the subject of photo essays, here is a great one from the New Yorker.

Pastors Conference Begins Today
The Ligonier Ministries Pastors Conference begins today and you can watch it all live on the web…

Mirror
From a hospital ship in the waters off the African coast comes an article from Ali who writes about Musa, a man who underwent an operation there.

Resurrection Letters: Volume II
Billy wants to introduce you to this album (which is a good one very much similar to Peterson’s previous albums).

John Piper’s Candidating Sermon
Desiring God has added the manuscript for John Piper’s Candidating Sermon at Bethlehem Baptist.

Has eBay Hit Its Twilight?
I sure hope so. Remember when it was actually worth shopping it?

A La Carte (4/1)

Tuesday April 1, 2008 The Silent ScreamCarolyn McCulley posts about that old pro-life film “The Silent Scream.” Expelled: The MovieHere is a round-up of a few reviews of the upcoming film (starring Ben Stein) “Expelled.” Washington Post on “The Reason for God”I must have missed this when it was first published. It is a review…

Apr 1, 2008

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A La Carte (6/27)

Friday June 27, 2008 ApologiesMy apologies for not posting A La Carte yesterday. I had to fly to Vancouver and needed to leave the house at 4:40 AM to get here. A La Carte just didn’t happen… Wright on TimePaul compares Tim Keller’s recommendation of the new N.T. Wright book with Tom Schreiner’s review of…

Jun 27, 2008

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A La Carte (4/23)

Wednesday April 23, 2008 Pulpit Reviews “Expelled”Pulpit blog reviewed Ben Stein’s “Expelled” and says, “I strongly recommend college students go and see this movie, and strongly recommend that their shepherds take the time to talk to them afterwards.” Temperature Sensors and Global WarmingAn interesting article uses a infrared camera to show why global temperatures may…

Apr 23, 2008

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Truths That Take on the World

Christianity has a long history with catechisms—summaries of key doctrines that are arranged in a question-and-answer format. Traditionally, Presbyterians would be taught The Shorter Catechism, Dutch Reformed believers The Heidelberg Catechism, and Baptists one of the Baptist equivalents. Sadly, the use of catechisms began to decline as the years went by, so that it became…

Jan 16

Book Reviews

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A La Carte (January 16)

A La Carte: Business meetings at the urinal / Ambition and competition / The loneliness crisis / Better than feeling seen / Exhausted and overwhelmed / Kindle deals / and more.

Jan 16

A La Carte

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A La Carte (January 15)

A La Carte: Young people are turning to the Bible / What conservative young men need / Justifying self-gratification / The influence of reading / On boredom / and more.

Jan 15

A La Carte

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It Doesn’t Matter What You Remember

I have a memory like a … what do you call it? That thing in the kitchen you use to sift the stuff you want from the stuff you don’t. A sieve! That’s it. I have a memory like a sieve. I joke about it at times, and about how I have to outsource remembering…

Jan 14

Articles

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A La Carte (January 14)

A La Carte: Always being right / Sex advice for newlyweds / Making Christianity look good / Soul care / Stop straining for shortcuts / When writing feels like a chair / Rare Kindle deals / and more.

Jan 14

A La Carte

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Are We Post Woke?

It is too early to tell, I think, whether the “wokeness” craze has already peaked and even begun to slip into decline, or whether it’s just pausing to gather energy for another surge. What seems clear for the moment, though, is that it has lost at least some of its initial momentum, probably because it…

Jan 13

Book Reviews

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To Those Who Married Poorly

Some marriages are the stuff of fairytales. Some are not. Some husbands marry wives who respect them and some wives marry husbands who love them as Christ loves his church. Some do not. The sad fact is that some people marry well and some people marry poorly.

Jan 7

Articles

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It Doesn’t Matter What You Remember

I have a memory like a … what do you call it? That thing in the kitchen you use to sift the stuff you want from the stuff you don’t. A sieve! That’s it. I have a memory like a sieve. I joke about it at times, and about how I have to outsource remembering…

Jan 14

Articles

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Power Dynamics within Marriage

Any well-taught Christian should be able to speak of God’s attributes and to distinguish between those that are communicable (shared with other beings) and those that are incommunicable (unique to God alone). Among God’s communicable attributes is power. God, who has ultimate power, distributes limited power among human beings. This power is given to us…

Jan 9

Book Reviews

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Petty Annoyances and Minor Insults

I wonder if you are like me in that, as you look back on your life, you realize that most of the circumstances that have troubled you, most of the annoyances and disgruntlements, were produced by circumstances that were hardly worth noticing.

Jan 12

Articles

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Are We Post Woke?

It is too early to tell, I think, whether the “wokeness” craze has already peaked and even begun to slip into decline, or whether it’s just pausing to gather energy for another surge. What seems clear for the moment, though, is that it has lost at least some of its initial momentum, probably because it…

Jan 13

Book Reviews

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