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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!

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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

  • The Two Kinds of Content You Consume

    The Two Kinds of Content You Consume

    At some point we all began to refer to articles and video as content. And today we are drowning in it! Here is a simple filter for telling content created to serve you apart from content created to serve its maker.

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    The humbling I needed / There must be blood / How to read the Bible when your heart feels cold / The delightful duty of married sex / Are we forgiven for the sins we can’t remember? / All things without complaining or arguing

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    This week’s Works & Wonders offers: The wonder and the beauty, older and rarer, His Love, Ferrari Luce, The Covenanter Story, and cheese curds.

  • Weekend A La Carte (June 6)

    There’s a playbook for college, there should be one for marriage / Ben Sasse is teaching us how to die—and live—well / The biggest tell that something was written by AI / Why China got rich and India didn’t / AI slop is coming for your playlists / The blood cancer that became solvable /…

  • Davy and Natalie Lloyd

    Strong to the End

    You have probably heard of Davy and Natalie Lloyd, even if the names aren’t immediately familiar. In May 2024, you most likely heard the news about two young American missionaries to Haiti who, along with one of their Haitian colleagues, were brutally murdered by one of the many gangs that dominate the country.

  • A La Carte (June 5)

    Can Jesus really sympathize with my specific struggles? / View your past through the lens of God’s faithfulness / Nine marks of a healthy paragraph / When you have nothing left to give / The treasure chest at the train station / When you’re too weird to lead / Headlines / and more.