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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?


  • Works & Wonders June 14

    Works & Wonders: Bowing the knee or shaking the fist, 39 years to translate the Bible, And Can It Be, How to understand a trillIon, Landsat images, and World Cup covers.

  • Weekend A La Carte (June 13)

    Egg freezing is a booming business / Talk to the A.I. me / Is aging becoming optional? / Feminism and the Fall / The lie of living your truth / Moving on from the Christian Nationalism moment / and more.

  • An Ideal Resource For Your Family Devotions

    An Ideal Resource For Your Family Devotions

    There is a lot I miss from the days when our children were young. High on the list is family devotions. Nick once described our family as having a “Spartan-like commitment” to them, though I remember as much failure as success and as many misses as hits. Still, there’s no doubt that over the 26…

  • A La Carte (June 12)

    The curious case of extra resurrections / Are kids too expensive? / Why hot takes are the enemy of conviction / Piper on preaching outrage / A daily rhythm of prayer / Forgetting and pursuing / A La Quiz / The funnies / and more.

  • A La Carte (June 11)

    We lost the baby / The Bible is cessationist (and wondrous!) / Thinking about Eastern Orthodoxy: a primer for evangelicals / Virtue signalling in the church / What is God’s providence? / Restlessness / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Conform

    You Can Conform to Christ Even if You Don’t Conform to Me

    One of the aspects of the Christian faith that I find particularly perplexing is the freedom God gives his people to obey him in different or even opposite ways, so that one person’s obedience is another person’s disobedience. Even as two people take the same action, one might be obeying him and the other disobeying…