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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 (February 24)

    A La Carte: Carl Trueman on playing God / Gen Z and the search for status / John Piper on the marks of a godly boss / Interpreting OT laws / What is fasting? / When the gospel becomes an idol / and more.

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    Random Thoughts and Tips on Prayer

    Not every thought makes a good article and sometimes an entire article can be distilled down to a single thought. For those reasons, I like to occasionally create what I have created here–a roundup of brief, random thoughts. In this case, these thoughts are on prayer.

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    A La Carte (February 23)

    A La Carte: Why is Andrew not above the law? / Sharing the gospel / He is strong enough / Shallow Christian friends / Headship / Is fear a sin? / Kindle deals / and more.

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    The Most Quotable Quote

    Tim Keller was a very quotable individual, but of all the quotes he left us, I expect one will prove the most widely shared. It speaks, of course, of the gospel—the good news, the great news, the wondrous news, the sends-chills-up-my-spine news, the brings-tears-to-my-eyes news, the I-wouldn’t-believe-it-if-God-hadn’t-said-it news of what Jesus Christ has accomplished on…

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    Weekend A La Carte (February 21)

    A La Carte: On saving the world / We are not workhorses / You will regret your outbursts of anger / Witchcraft in the church / Embrace your life / Principles for wise use of AI / and more.

  • Free Stuff Fridays (Missionary.com)

    This week, the giveaway is sponsored by Missionary.com. They are giving away three pairs of tickets to the Missionary Conference. Enter your information below for a chance to win. “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). After His death and resurrection, Christ gave this command to His people. There is still a great multitude waiting…