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Firestorm – Here’s a fascinating site: “The photograph of the Holmes family hiding from a violent bushfire in Tasmania was shared around the world. But what became of them? In a unique multimedia project, the family speak exclusively to the Guardian about the day their community was devastated, and the new breed of bushfire that is impossible to fight.”

When Your Sermon Is Only a Single – Here’s one for the preachers: “Each week, we hope that our sermon will be a homerun. However, I’ve hit a lot more singles and doubles than triples. I’ve hit even fewer homeruns. In all honesty, there are many Sundays my sermon feels like a poorly executed bunt that I have to hustle out to first base. So what are you to do when you just hit a single?”

Ghost Army – A little piece of World War 2 history: “Blass and his brothers in arms were recruited from art schools and ad agencies. They were sought for their acting skills. They were selected for their creativity. They were soldiers whose most effective weapon was artistry.”

Surviving a Cultural Crisis – Mark Dever: “In all this, Christians are tempted to become panicked or to speak as alarmists. But to the extent we do, to that same extent we show we’ve embraced an unbiblical and nominal Christianity. Here, then, are seven principles for surviving the very real cultural shifts we’re presently enduring.”

Is Your Child’s Cell Phone Stunting Their Growth? – “Instead of healthy, functioning adults, are we raising a bunch of co-dependent, anxious, namby-pambies? The article suggests that the cell phone is functioning as an eternal umbilicus that we are all too happy to continue coddling our children through.”

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

—J.C. Ryle

  • Weekend A La Carte (August 15)

    The embrace of the Machine God / The digital twin and the line in the sand / AI writing: the day of reckoning / Ten ways to savor Sundays / AI and homeschooling / Read the Bible slowly / Elders and counselors / and more.

  • Training Pastors to Care for Souls

    There are many ways to identify a man who may have what it takes to become a pastor. Unfortunately, too few churches focus on what matters most according to the Bible. This leads to many churches being pastored by unqualified men.

  • A La Carte (August 14)

    Little League games and big league idols / Selfies in the end times / AOC’s illogical case for egg freezing / When did the church begin? / Entrusting your college student to the Lord / 3 things stress reveals / Reviews / and more.

  • A La Carte (August 13)

    The Christian bubble / Your faith muscle needs exercise / Store treasure in clay / Interpersonal conflicts / Bivocational ministry / Your perspective on time / Nolan Ryan / and more.

  • To the Parents Driving Home with an Empty Seat

    To the Parents Driving Home with an Empty Seat

    It’s the season when many parents are making the long journey home, and doing so alone. On the journey there, they had a child in the seat behind them, a child who was making his or her way to college for the first time. But now, as they make the journey back, the seat behind…