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A La Carte (August 2)

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Logos users will want to take a look at this month’s free and nearly free books.

Meanwhile, there’s an extensive collection Kindle deals to sort through today.

(Yesterday on the blog: Cast Your Burden Upon the Lord)

It can’t be both depending on how we feel

Stephen points out one of the massive contradictions among those who are pro-choice.

New Resolve After 55 Years in My Wheelchair

Joni Eareckson Tada reflects on the anniversary of the Disabilities Act and tells how great a difference it has made in her life.

God’s Plan Was Better Than My Plan

Micheal tells of one of those times when–difficult though it was–God’s plan was better than his own.

How Job Teaches Us to Grieve With Hope

“When deep pain and sorrow come into our lives, we experience a crossroads of sorts. We can either turn away from the Lord—deciding that God is not who he says he is and that he is holding out on us in some way— or we draw closer to God, believing that God’s character is unchanging and is always good”

How Harry Emerson Fosdick’s ‘Open Membership’ Overtook the Northern Baptist Convention

This is a good look at an interesting little piece of church history.

What Your Eyes Have Seen

“The human eye finds no match for its intricacies. High-end cameras still can’t compare to the technology found in this tiny little organ. Photographers who capture gorgeous landscapes must grapple with focus, dynamic range, filters, color consistency, and brightness adjustments to match the scene that lays before them. Our eyes do this all in an instant.”

Flashback: A Picture of Perfect Rest

…the rest God promises and the rest we enjoy comes amid the battle, not outside of it, during the race, not only after we have resigned. It is a rest that comes amid the turmoil, that flows when circumstances are dire, that rises up when hearts sink low.


  • Holiness

    You’re Exactly As Holy As You Want To Be

    Every Christian is a work in progress. Every Christian is striving for holiness, laboring to put off the old man and put on the new. Though none of us is as holy as we will be in heaven, I trust that each of us is holier now than when we first came to Christ. And…

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    A La Carte (December 3)

    A La Carte: John Piper on gender pronoun hospitality / When there is too much to do / Is Christmas a pagan tradition? / The passion of Jordan Peterson / The joy of our adoption / and more.

  • Is Biblical Counseling for You? Let the Goal be the Guide.

    This week’s blog is sponsored by Insight Counseling, providing counsel, care, and training in the grace and power of Christ.  Click here to find out more. Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would…

  • Modesty Requires Looking Away

    Modesty Requires Looking Away

    The plane reached the terminal in Recife, Brazil and the ground crew opened the door. I have been through more airports than I can count1 and find they all kind of blur together—jetways, corridors, escalators, luggage belts. But for some reason, I remembered this one from my previous visit. After exiting the secure area, I…

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    A La Carte (December 2)

    A La Carte: Cyber Monday deals / Eleven hindrances to answered prayer / Thinking about Bruce Willis and Jesus / Nearly there, nearly home / Progressive ideology leads to paganism / You already work a Christian job / Kindle deals / and more.