A La Carte (5/29)

May 29, 2008

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Thursday May 29, 2008

How to Read 500 Books a Year
Denny Burk points to D.A. Carson’s explanation. The question is, who can afford 500 books a year?

White Board or Just Bored
Matt Schmucker shares some quotes and reflections from the recent White Board Sessions. The quote from Ed Stetzer is particularly good: “For most here today ministry won’t look like what we have heard today. Conferences are like ministry pornography — a picture of something we’ll never have.”

Irish Calvinist Reviews My Book
Erik Raymond was kind enough to post a review of my book.

The Forgotten Vice of Gluttony
Joe Carter writes about a vice we tend to prefer to ignore.

Why We Can Confidently Persevere in Prayer

I remember the days when my children were younger and would ask me to give them something—then ask me again, and ask me again. At that age, they had no ability to gain or purchase these things for themselves, so they were entirely dependent upon their parents to grant their requests (which were usually for…

Jan 19

Articles

5 min read
A La Carte (January 19)

A La Carte: Learning to struggle / When “Stranger Things” stopped being strange / “If God Is For Us” / Reading as stewardship / A sermon you need to hear / Excellent Kindle deals / and more.

Jan 19

A La Carte

4 min read
Not a Hindrance But a Prerequisite

Many Christians feel they are too unholy or too sinful to participate in the Lord’s Supper. They come to the table downcast, convinced that their sin makes them unworthy. They may refuse to participate at all.

Jan 18

Articles

2 min read
Weekend A La Carte (January 17)

A La Carte: Look to and learn from older saints / Don’t overthink your problems / Rebellion / When there is no good church / Teens and popular music / Where the gospel costs everything / and more.

Jan 17

A La Carte

3 min read
Free Stuff Fridays (TGBC)

Enter to win 1 of 5 copies of Why We’re Feeling Lonely (And What We Can Do About It) and be encouraged by Shelby Abbott’s practical, biblical insights for young adults struggling with loneliness.

Jan 16

Giveaways

2 min read
Truths That Take on the World

Christianity has a long history with catechisms—summaries of key doctrines that are arranged in a question-and-answer format. Traditionally, Presbyterians would be taught The Shorter Catechism, Dutch Reformed believers The Heidelberg Catechism, and Baptists one of the Baptist equivalents. Sadly, the use of catechisms began to decline as the years went by, so that it became…

Jan 16

Book Reviews

5 min read

It Doesn’t Matter What You Remember

I have a memory like a … what do you call it? That thing in the kitchen you use to sift the stuff you want from the stuff you don’t. A sieve! That’s it. I have a memory like a sieve. I joke about it at times, and about how I have to outsource remembering…

Jan 14

Articles

5 min read
To Those Who Married Poorly

Some marriages are the stuff of fairytales. Some are not. Some husbands marry wives who respect them and some wives marry husbands who love them as Christ loves his church. Some do not. The sad fact is that some people marry well and some people marry poorly.

Jan 7

Articles

5 min read
Petty Annoyances and Minor Insults

I wonder if you are like me in that, as you look back on your life, you realize that most of the circumstances that have troubled you, most of the annoyances and disgruntlements, were produced by circumstances that were hardly worth noticing.

Jan 12

Articles

4 min read
Are We Post Woke?

It is too early to tell, I think, whether the “wokeness” craze has already peaked and even begun to slip into decline, or whether it’s just pausing to gather energy for another surge. What seems clear for the moment, though, is that it has lost at least some of its initial momentum, probably because it…

Jan 13

Book Reviews

6 min read
Truths That Take on the World

Christianity has a long history with catechisms—summaries of key doctrines that are arranged in a question-and-answer format. Traditionally, Presbyterians would be taught The Shorter Catechism, Dutch Reformed believers The Heidelberg Catechism, and Baptists one of the Baptist equivalents. Sadly, the use of catechisms began to decline as the years went by, so that it became…

Jan 16

Book Reviews

5 min read

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