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A La Carte (August 26)

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Good morning. Grace and peace to you.

Today’s Kindle deals include Tom Schreiner’s Spiritual Gifts, a helpful and charitable defense of a cessationist position on the gifts of the Spirit. Additionally, you’ll find several excellent books on marriage including a personal favorite, Married for God. Also, just a reminder that I have a new Kindle + Book deals Twitter account @challiesdeals.

7 Things That Make the Gospel of John Unique

Michael Kruger considers some of the things that make the Gospel of John unique and uniquely enjoyable.

Don’t Wait Until You Feel Like It

Barbara offers a helpful instruction for times you don’t feel like doing what you know you should do. “I’d like to suggest that we wouldn’t be faking it. Instead, by doing what we ought to do even when we don’t feel like it, we’d be battling our fleshly nature, what the Bible calls our ‘old man.’”

Faithful Presence After the Evangelical Fracturing

This is quite an interesting piece from Jake Meador in which he draws some comparisons between Tim Keller’s views and Doug Wilson’s.

Pastor, Your Ministry Is a Noble Task

“When Paul writes to encourage young Timothy, he declares, ‘The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task’ (1 Tim. 3:1). In contrast to today’s gloomy outlook on vocational ministry, Paul is positively sunny. He highly esteems service in pastoral ministry; he’s convinced serving as a pastor is a noble aspiration. You should be, too.”

A Case Both for and Against Door-to-door

Writing from a British perspective, Stephen Kneale considers a case both for and against door-to-door evangelism. (FYI, when he uses the word “chuggers” he is referring to canvassers or solicitors.)

How to Bring Your Sins to God

Scott Hubbard has an article about confession and he writes for those who fail to confess their sins at all and for those who continue to confess the very sin again and again. “When it comes to confessing our sins, many Christians fall into one of two errors — both of which steal joy, disrupt peace, and undermine assurance.”

Flashback: Gray Hair and a Righteous Life

Everyone wears gray hair, but not everyone wears the crown. That crown needs to be earned through a righteous life. 

What a blessed condition is a true believer in! When he dies, he goes to God: and while he lives, everything shall do him good.

—Thomas Watson

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