Skip to content ↓

A La Carte (10/27)

A La Carte Collection cover image

Yesterday the meteorologists around these parts were talking about a “weather bomb.” In the end we didn’t see anything even close to resembling such a phenomenon. I wouldn’t say we’re disappointed, but, well, maybe we are just a little bit. It sounded exciting.

A Detox Review – Here’s a very encouraging review of Sexual Detox. “I highly recommend Sexual Detox to any Christian man. If you’ve personally struggled with porn and you are a married man, I commission you to read Sexual Detox aloud with your wife in the room (after you confess and repent with her about your issues). If you’re a single dude, I commission you to saturate your mind with good Scripture until you fall asleep.”

Corruption – This rather interesting page shows the countries that experience the most corruption. “The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index score below five, on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt). These results indicate a serious corruption problem.”

Digital or Paper Textbooks? – “They text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on laptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks — and loving it.” Give e-book technology a few years to mature and I wouldn’t be surprised to see digital dominance. But we’re not quite there yet.

The Undistracted WidowThe Undistracted Widow is a book I’m hearing good things about.

I Am Second – Josh Hamilton will soon be playing in the World Series (and may well soon have a MVP award). Here he talks about his life and faith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOrKT7SUoY?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6

One of the highest and noblest functions of man’s mind is to listen to God’s Word, and so to read his mind and think his thoughts after him.

—John Stott

  • New and Notable Christian Books for August 2026

    August is often a fairly quiet month for new book releases, sitting as it does between the busy spring and fall seasons. However, there were lots of excellent books published this month, and I’m glad to share some of them with you.

  • A La Carte (August 28)

    Are you losing heart? / Why we don’t have insane asylums anymore / Walking alongside parents of LGBTQ+ identifying children / The England I knew is gone / Learning from the Jason Arday tragedy / What is a liturgy, and should we have one? / Book and Kindle deals.

  • A La Carte (August 27)

    Christian, your suffering isn’t pointless / What did Jesus mean by “cut off your hand”? / The parent blaming generation / Seasons of marriage / I refuse to give up printed books / Why good stories have bad examples / and more.

  • A La Carte (August 26)

    Help! My child is entering puberty / Lindsay Clancy and the problem of therapy culture / What drives parents to frustration / The abortion pioneer who became a pro-life champion / What your church owns is not ultimately yours / Free stuff / and more.

  • A La Carte (August 25)

    US missionary freed after 9 months’ captivity / Sharing suffering / The Lord will keep your children’s lives / The real reason Iran is persecuting Christians / Dinesh D’Souza’s case against Calvinism, answered / Canadian military chaplains can’t mention God in public / Do religious families actually have more kids?