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Al Gore’s Earth Hour
“President of the Tennessee Center For Policy Research Drew Johnson takes a Saturday drive by Al Gore’s during the time most environmentalists went dark. … The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.”


Shaun Groves on Life in the Speck
“On your first day on the other side of the grave, do you think you’ll look back on this life and be flooded with gratitude for hours spent watching episodes of American Idol and Lost? Will you wish you’d done more of that? Do you think you’ll look back fondly on the effort and money spent remodeling the kitchen? Will you wish you’d had a nicer home?…”


Challies’ Path to Family
That’s the title of an interview Aileen and I completed with Steve and Candice Watters who interviewed us on starting our family.


Totally Looks Like
I got a laugh from this.


Deal of the Day: Reformed Expository Commentaries
Monergism Books is offering a 50% discount on all of the books in the Reformed Expository Commentaries series. This is a limited time offer, while supplies last. One each per customer.” The 50% discount applies to any of the 10 titles. This is a great time to get started on your collection of this set!


  • Temptation

    When It Feels Like the Temptation Is Coming From Outside

    No Christian tradition is perfect, which means that every Christian tradition has its own strengths and weaknesses. Every tradition has areas in which it presses hard to understand and live according to biblical truth, but then also areas in which it inevitably fails to completely match Scripture’s teaching and emphases. Since every tradition is the…

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    A La Carte (November 10)

    A La Carte: Wanderlust / Afraid to have children / When you’re struggling with joy / Autism care for families / Noisy world, quiet heart / Top 5 seminaries / Great Kindle deals / and more.

  • Prayer hands

    Nothing but a Passionate, Heartfelt Sin

    When we think of worship, our thoughts almost always gravitate to singing—the two have become inseparable and almost synonymous in our minds and in our church services. Yet singing is actually just one component of worship. We worship when we sing, but we also worship when we read Scripture, when we listen to a sermon,…

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    Weekend A La Carte (November 8)

    A La Carte: Sending isn’t a consolation prize / Suffering and resilience / The loneliness of being rejected / Word hard, rest hard, trust God / Expand your family at church / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Embodied Holiness

    The Biblical Call To Bodily Care

    Christians can often have a strange relationship with the body. Certain Christian traditions have treated the body as if it is no more than a shell for the soul, a material self that is of little importance when compared to the immaterial self. Other Christian traditions have treated the body as if it is of…