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Feb 6, 2008

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Wednesday February 6, 2008

Cherishing Your Marriage
This is the beginning of what looks like a promising series over at the CBMW blog.

Beyond the Gates of Splendor
Amazon has the DVD of “Beyond the Gates of Splendor” on sale at the moment.

Highlights from T4G ’06
In the coming weeks, over at the Together for the Gospel blog, you’ll find highlights from the ’06 conference.

The Recycling Myth
Here is an interesting article for those who believe that Sweden has an ideal recycling program (and one other nations should emulate).

Evangelist Bill Piper
Here you can listen to or read John Piper’s biographical tribute to his father.

Lowest and Last of All

The day will come when every man will stand before the Lord and be asked to give an account of his life. God makes clear the basis of this coming judgment: he “will render to each one according to his works.”

Sep 18

Articles

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A La Carte (September 18)

A La Carte: What if no one prayed for you? / How to pray when you feel like you can’t / Is that person male or female? / “If one member suffers…” / Ideas for better conversations / Huge Kindle sale / and more.

Sep 18

A La Carte

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A La Carte (September 17)

A La Carte: Who’s afraid of Romans 1? / You can only be what you can see / Are you a pastor who hurts people? / A holy life is the seed of evangelism / Thinking biblically in all areas of life / and more.

Sep 17

A La Carte

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Shadow, Stream, and Scattered Beam Apologetics

This week the blog is sponsored by Zondervan Reflective. This is an excerpt from Thaddeus Williams’ latest book on living out a radically God-centered systematic theology entitled Revering God: How to Marvel at Your Maker (Zondervan Reflective, 2024), featuring stories of Christian thinkers like Michael Horton, Fred Sanders, Joni Eareckson-Tada, John Perkins, Vishal Mangalwadi, and…

Sep 16

Sponsored

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Did the Angels Laugh?

You’ve got to hand it to the chief priests and Pharisees: They did their best. They did their level best to keep Jesus in his tomb. After successfully overseeing his execution, they remembered that he had not only predicted his death but also spoken of some kind of resurrection. Wanting to make sure his disciples…

Sep 16

Articles

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A La Carte (September 16)

A La Carte: Why Christians won’t stop singing / Exercising an idle mind / The scars of hope / David’s sin in ordering a census / Is this actually accomplishing anything? / Kindle deals / and more.

Sep 16

A La Carte

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What Not To Say at the Beginning of a Worship Service

A few weeks ago Jared Wilson wrote an article titled “3 Things to Be Careful About Saying at the Start of Your Service.” In his article he offered some common service-starting cliches that are “worth weighing in terms of their helpfulness to the congregation’s worship.” They were, “How’s everybody doing this morning?”; “I can’t hear…

Sep 16, 2019

Articles

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Past Them, Through Them, Over Them, Around Them

It is inevitable that we face times of difficulty and impossible that we escape them altogether. To be born is to suffer and to live is to endure all manner of trouble and trial. Just as none of us escapes death, none of us escapes all hardships. And when we face such hardships, we invariably…

Sep 9

Articles

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Your Kids Need You To Help Them Build Their Identity

It has always been important that children establish their identity. From the time kids are young, they are being formed in a host of ways and gradually coming to terms with who they are and who they will become. Historically, identity arose from outside—from the people they came from, the place they were born, and…

Sep 13

Book Reviews

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The Pastoral Prayer: Examples and Inspirations

Of all the elements that once made up traditional Protestant worship, there is probably none that has fallen on harder times than prayer. It is not unusual to visit a church today and find that prayer is perfunctory, rare, or absent altogether. If that is true of prayer in general, it is particularly true of…

Sep 11

Articles

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The Song I Sing in the Darkness

No work of art is more beautiful, more valuable, more irreplaceable, than the twenty-third psalm. It has stood through the ages as a work of art more exquisite than The Night Watch, more faultless than Mona Lisa, more thought-provoking than Starry Night. The lines of the greatest poets cannot match its imagery, the words of…

Sep 13, 2021

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