A La Carte (2/1)

Feb 1, 2007

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Thursday February 1, 2007

Islam: Australia’s Herald Sun brings a story about “Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University.”

Conference: The Shepherd’s Conference is now offering a live video stream from the conference which will be held next month. Details here.

Marriage: Justin Buzzard wonders about a Christian minister’s involvement in a non-Christian wedding.

Du Jour: The ESV blog reflects on “being Dugg” and “what happens when a Christian blog experiences a fleeting burst of popularity from non-Christian or even anti-Christian sources.” A good read!

A La Carte (3/5)

Wednesday March 5, 2008 Christian Book Release DatesWe’ve added a new feature to Discerning Reader: a list of upcoming notable book releases. So if you want to know what’s next for Piper, MacArthur, Driscoll, Wells, Carson, Zacharias and any number of other authors, take a look at the page. Shepherds’ Conference Live StreamThe Shepherds’ Conference,…

Mar 5, 2008

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A La Carte (1/19)

Friday January 19, 2007 Conference: The Ligonier conference has reached capacity (which I believe is in the neighborhood of 5000 people!) Church: Outreach magazine has announced that LifeChurch.tv is the most innovative church in the country “primarily for its ability to leverage the latest technology available for its nine multi-state campuses, 18,000 members and thousands…

Jan 19, 2007

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A La Carte (3/25)

It’s looking like another great day in Orlando. It’s quite a conference Ligonier puts on and I’m enjoying it thoroughly. I’ve also enjoyed meeting quite a number of readers of this blog as well. And I suppose I’ll meet a few more when I do a book signing a bit later in the day. If…

Mar 25, 2011

A La Carte

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Works & Wonders (September 13)

Works & Wonders: Wonderful Paradoxes, Stone Wall Trees, Spiral Embryos, Saved by Grace, Play the 101, Just as He Said.

Sep 13

Articles

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Weekend A La Carte (September 12)

It’s 10 p.m., and your kids want to know where you are / The dark side of mindfulness / Planet of bots / How to love your local public school / The beautiful complexity of the human eye / Hard cases: no time to talk / Reader recommendations.

Sep 12

A La Carte

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Free Stuff Fridays (Harvest House Publishers)

This week, the blog and this giveaway are sponsored by Harvest House Publishers. Dear Millie, You are cordially invited to The God Party.Love, F, S, & HS Who sent this strange invitation and what does it mean? Millie has no idea—that is, until her fiendishly funny friends, the REAL BAD GUYS, shed some light on the…

Sep 11

Giveaways

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We Will Be Changed

A review of Alistair Begg’s We Will Be Changed, an exposition of the fruit of the Spirit—essential character that is produced in us but not by us.

Sep 11

Book Reviews

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A La Carte (September 11)

Pastors who prey on the flock / On (not) making very important Christian people / 5 helpful reminders for praying moms / Conspiracy theories are simple / The faithful friendship a marriage needs / A catechism on technology / Book and Kindle deals.

Sep 11

A La Carte

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A La Carte (September 10)

I wasn’t outside of God’s will. I was tired. / The NFL quarterbacks who found God in defeat / How to raise a son who is boring and unattractive to women / How do we know when to shut down a church? / Headship and submission when husbands and wives disagree / Is church membership…

Sep 10

A La Carte

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Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie”

When Netflix announced they would debut a Little House on the Prairie series, I received the news with a sense of dread. While I knew it could be like All Creatures Great and Small and remain relatively faithful to the spirit of much-loved books, it could also be like Rings of Power and be anything…

Sep 7

Articles

9 min read
Works & Wonders (September 6)

Works & Wonders: Beautiful creation / Photography awards / Blackwing pencils / World’s narrowest islands / Be a stowaway / Vanished Vikings.

Sep 6

Articles

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How Scammers Are Targeting Christian Authors

Scammers are using AI to target Christian authors. They use fake marketing, offers of translation, and fabricated book clubs. Here’s how to recognize the scams and how to avoid being fooled by them.

Sep 9

Articles

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In His Utter Despair, He Began to Sing

A review of Matt Boswell’s Create in Me a Clean Heart. He takes a slow walk through Psalm 51—a manual for repentance, renewal, and understanding God’s mercy.

Sep 4

Book Reviews

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“No Man’s Sky” and 10,000 Bowls of Plain Oatmeal

No Man’s Sky was supposed to change gaming forever. It was pitched as offering players a vast world with nearly endless opportunities to explore and nearly infinite varieties of planets and life to discover. It promised an incredible 18 quintillion (that’s 18 billion billion) planets to find—far more than a million gamers on a million…

Sep 2, 2016

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