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A La Carte (August 4)

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Good morning. May the Lord bless and keep you today.

There is a small number of Kindle deals on Christian books, but I’ve also added a list of biographies and history books that are on sale today only.

Logos users, remember that Zondervan Academic is having a sale and has discounted a lot of great books and resources.

Nine Years, 782,000 Words Later, South Carolina Woman Completes Handwritten Bible

This is a sweet story of a special young woman who wrote out the entire Bible by hand.

How Simone Biles Helps Us Understand Eric Liddell

I am glad that Jordan Standridge thought of this similarity between Eric Liddell and Simone Biles.

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Who Loves You?

“It seems so simple when we say our wedding vows or hold our babies close. Sweet feelings fill us and we vow that our love will be stronger than those who came before us. And then…”

How Faith Prays in the Dark

“I can only speculate what may have passed through the minds of the Jewish leaders as they heard the very last of Jesus’s last words. But I have no doubt that the words, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit,’ were pregnant with meaning from the entire psalm when the Word cried them out.”

The Art of Drawing the Line in Preaching

“When I was being trained to preach three decades ago now, one of my seminary professors regularly said in homiletics class, ‘The art of good preaching is knowing where to draw the line.’ Beyond a catchy way to capture our attention, he was teaching us an important truth about preaching.” Indeed.

Why Your Vacation Is So Expensive This Summer (Video)

In case you’ve been wondering, as I have.

Flashback: The Lingering Stench of Sin

The problem with sin is that it is too dreadful, too ugly, too pernicious to allow solutions that are perfectly clean and neat. Instead, a stink lingers in the aftermath of any great sin.

The risen Lord alive and well in heaven today is not somehow less approachable and less compassionate than he was when he walked the earth.

—Dane Ortlund

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    Managing Your Household Well

    The Bible lays out a whole list of qualifications that must be present in the life of a man who wishes to be a pastor. He must be the husband of one wife, he must be a lover of good, he must be hospitable, and so on. Meanwhile, he must not be arrogant, quick-tempered, violent,…

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    Friends Astern & Friends Ahead

    I’ve heard that it was an old nautical tradition that when a boat sailed across the Atlantic, the passengers would spend the first half of the voyage raising their glasses to friends astern—to the ones who had seen them off and bid them a fond farewell.