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A La Carte (April 9)

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Good morning! The Lord bless and keep you today.

As usual, you’ll find a few Kindle deals today—many of them biographies.

Good Works

What a great piece by Lisa LaGeorge. She addresses it to fathers…

Is Wokeness the Greatest Threat to the Gospel?

Trevin Wax doesn’t answer this question head-on, but instead offers some principles related to addressing threats to the gospel. “This conversation raises a good question about how we as church leaders foresee and address potential threats in our day. Along those lines, I offer three suggestions.”

The Day After Easter

Glenna Marshall movingly laments the death of a friend on the day after Easter. “My friend died on Monday. The end came after two long years of chemotherapy, low platelets, a stem cell transplant, multiple hospitalizations, and something called Graft Versus Host Disease that had whittled her body down to the barest vestige of life.”

Undivided Trinity

There is a new issue of Credo magazine that is free to read online or to download. Its focus is the Trinity.

5 Questions about God’s Design for Gender

Here, from Kevin DeYoung, are 5 questions about God’s design for gender.

Holy Ambitions: The Two Aims of Hudson Taylor’s Life

Micah Colbert reflects on what marked the life and ministry of Hudson Taylor. “Conformity to Christ and usefulness for Christ. These desires were far more than pious but hollow sentiments. They were the life-long holy ambitions that shaped everything about Taylor’s life and ministry.”

Addressing Fraternal Disagreements in the Body of Christ

“Scripture does not require brothers and sisters in Christ to agree about everything, but it does place certain expectations on the way we are to disagree with one another. Biblical authors—and Jesus himself—seem to place a considerable weight on the way we disagree with one another.”

Flashback: My Dear, Sweet Girl

I pray every day that you’ll look to Jesus, that you’ll believe in him and trust in him, and that you’ll come to know him as the very dearest friend.

Deep change is rarely a matter of knowledge. It is a matter of repentance.

—Ed Welch

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    Every new technology introduces both benefits and drawbacks to its users and to the wider culture. The world being what it is, there are always plusses and minuses, so that even as a new tech gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. We are quickly learning that Artificial Intelligence is no exception…

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    A La Carte (February 16)

    A La Carte: God is glad to forgive you / Gen Z needs this doctrine / The draw of Eastern Orthodoxy / Rest for the restless / Finding love after loss / Kindle and book deals / and more.

  • Duty

    For Our Good, Not For Our Bondage

    Matthew Henry once said that when we are out of the way of duty, we are in the way of temptation. Yet Jerry Bridges warns that the spiritual disciplines are privileges to be used, not duties to be performed. So are they duties or are they not?

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    Weekend A La Carte (February 14)

    A La Carte: Satan wants you alone this Sunday / The discipline of unlearning / Asking a pastor to step down / Holy humor / Intentional thankfulness / and more.

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    Do You Have to Choose Between Science and God?

    Whatever else young people know today, they know that science and God are opposed to one another. At least, they think they know this, because it has been taught to them in a hundred formal and informal settings, from the classroom to the television. They have been taught that they must choose between science and…