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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.

NASB Adventure Bible Sweepstakes – Enter to Win!

Enter for your chance to win a NASB Adventure Bible, Hardcover. The New American Standard Bible, 1995 Text edition of the bestselling Adventure Bible® will get kids excited about God’s Word with full-color features that make reading Scripture and memorizing their favorite verses engaging and fun. No purchase necessary. Open to US residents only 18 and older. Runs August 2, 2021 through August 16, 2021. Void where prohibited. Official rules available here. (Sponsored Link)

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

  • Daily Doctrine

    A Daily Diet of Doctrine

    A while back I realized I needed to brush up on some of these and began to organize a system of spaced repetition—a way to encounter these doctrines on a regular basis, thus reinforcing them and keeping them fresh in my mind. And it was right then…

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    A La Carte (October 11)

    A La Carte: An extraordinary, supernatural conversion / Does free will exist? / End-of-life music / Don’t let politics hijack the pulpit / Schizophrenia / and more.

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    A La Carte (October 10)

    A La Carte: How women combat comparison / Recognize your pastor this month / Gone are the dark clouds / Why does God say no to good things? / Ministers of loneliness / Book and Kindle deals / and more.

  • O Jesus I Have Promised

    Give Me Grace to Follow!

    Knowing that we can be self-deceived, we must examine our lives to ensure we are living as Christians are called to live—that we are putting sin to death, that we are coming alive to righteousness, and that we are finding ever-greater joy in our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. And always we must pray…

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    A La Carte (October 9)

    A La Carte: The normalization of slander / Doctrine and formation / Destructive relationships / Why Satan wants you to think you’re alone / Laughing at yourself is grace / and more.

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    A La Carte (October 8)

    A La Carte: A Christian response to polygamy, incest, and pedophilia / 10 diagnostic questions for you and your spouse / neither despair nor blind optimism / To confront or to cover / Did Jesus lie to his brothers? / Huge book and commentary sales!