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Gospel-Centered Family – Westminster Books has Tim Chester’s Gospel-Centered Family on sale for just $3.99. “Many books aim to raise up competent, balanced parents and well-trained, well-rounded children. But Tim Chester and Ed Moll focus on families growing God-knowing, Christ-confessing, grace-receiving, servant-hearted, mission-minded believers-adults and children together.”

9 Core Principles of Writing – Matt Perman offers up 9 core principles that will be useful to any writer.

Settle Down – John MacArthur has another article for the Young, Restless and Reformed crowd. I suspect that this one will ruffle fewer feathers than the last two.

Earthquake Tweets – Here is a round-up of the top politically-themed earthquake tweets from yesterday. A favorite: “Breaking: Obama administration points out they ‘inherited’ fault lines from previous administrations.”

Reading “Pinocchio” on Paper – Scott Simon, writing for WSJ, tells about the joy of reading a book to his daughters. As in a real, printed-on-paper kind of book.

4-Year Old Preacher – This is awful on so many different levels. “He’s only a pre-schooler, but Kanon Tipton has become a YouTube sensation with his pentecostal preaching. … Damon Tipton, who has been pastor of The Pentecostals of Grenada since 2008, believes it’s a little of both mimicking and a calling.”

Table Manners – Russell Moore’s article on the importance of fencing the Lord’s Table makes for a thought-provoking read.

Worry over poverty is as fatal to spiritual fruitfulness as is gloating over wealth.

—A.W. Pink

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    A La Carte (August 21)

    A La Carte: A biblical lens on migration and identity / Dignity beyond accomplishment / Angry parents disciplining angry children / Am I on the brink of burnout? / Optimizing ourselves to death / and more.

  • Conversation

    Learning To Have Conversations with God

    I was just a young child when my parents told me I ought to begin daily devotions. I began the habit when I was perhaps eight or ten years old and have largely stuck with it for the past four decades. During that time, I have attempted a hundred different approaches, but it seems like…

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    A La Carte (August 20)

    A La Carte: Hoping for the best / Teach them friendship / Questions for pastors on social media / When our bodies are weak / Electric shepherds and electric sheep / Caring for aging parents / and more.

  • From the Rising of the Sun

    From the Rising of the Sun: Introducing My New Book & Documentary

    Get ready to travel the globe and experience the beauty of Christian worship like never before. That’s what I hope and trust you’ll gain as you read my new book and watch my new documentary titled From the Rising of the Sun—a project I created in collaboration with my friend Tim Keesee. It is available…

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    A La Carte (August 19)

    A La Carte: Am I a missionary colonizer? / The separation of church and home / Invite people into your life / Contentment in childlessness / A misunderstood grief / When people are late to church / So many Kindle deals.

  • Almost Saved

    To Be Almost Saved Is To Be Completely Lost

    Along the coast of New York is a little town called East Hampton. And I recently read that there is a cemetery in East Hampton where you can find 12 identical graves that have been laid side by side. There’s a story behind them, of course. All the way back in the 1800s, there was…