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A La Carte (12/2)

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How to Shrink Your Church – Some good thoughts on church from the Huffington Post, of all places. “Pastors and churches spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year attending conferences, buying books, hiring consultants, advertisers and marketers, all to try and accomplish one thing: to increase attendance — to be a bigger church. I’m absolutely convinced this is the wrong tack.”

Free Audio – ChristianAudio has 2 books available for free this month: From Pearl Harbor to Calvary and A Christmas Carol.

What Tebow Can’t Do – An enjoyable article on the Tebow phenomenon.

Hallelujah Chorus Trainwrecks – Truly horrifying Messiah moments.

Stupid and Graceless – “Bob Costas carves the selfish idiots who make a spectacle of themselves after they do something good on the football field.”

Old age is a blessed time. It gives us leisure to put off our earthly garments one by one and dress ourselves for heaven.

—Ray Palmer

  • Considering Sparrows

    Considering Sparrows

    Explore how Kevin Burrell’s Considering Sparrows brings birds, Philippians, and the joy of following Jesus together in a warm, accessible work of ‘ornitheology.’

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    Protestants and the pill / Pastoring the scrupulous conscience / Ben Shapiro mocked this couple (so Ray Comfort interviewed them) / Made lonely by holiness / Two pressures of age / Teaching teens digital discernment / and more.

  • Gods Great Big Global Church

    Announcing: God’s Great Big Global Church

    Coming soon: God’s Great Big Global Church—my new children’s book that introduces kids to ten churches around the world and the joy of worshiping God together. Pre‑order is now open.

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    A La Carte (March 26)

    Decisions in the room / What does the Bible say about demons? / Why rationalists are asking AI to read their future / Tiny changes, massive payoffs / Stop scrolling and start singing / Kindle and commentary deals / and more.

  • Marriage

    When Your Spouse Stops Being Your Project

    Many marriages stall at the same point: each spouse convinced the breakthrough will come only when the other finally changes. What if the real breakthrough begins somewhere else?