Good morning. Grace and peace to you.
If all goes well, today’s Kindle deals will include some top-tier titles from Crossway, including the excellent Good News for Parents—the first time it has been on sale. (Unfortunately, several of the other scheduled deals did not go live.)
Don’t Be Duped by This Year’s Biggest Religious Trend
Missy Speir writes about the biggest religious trend of the year and warns you not to be duped by it.
Blood Soaks Into the Sands of Bondi Beach
Murray Campbell writes from Australia and tries to process the horror that unfolded at Bondi Beach.
No Matter the Challenges This Christmas Season, Remember That God Is With You
Randy Alcorn: “This season can be a painful reminder of who is and isn’t in the room and at the table. One who was with us last year may now be gone from this world. Another may have chosen not to join the family to celebrate Christmas. They may be in pain, and the rest of the family may be experiencing pain and confusion or dismay.”
Best Christian Folk & Worship of 2025 Music Review
Tim Briggs offers his take on the best Christian folk and worship songs of 2025. I’m sure you’ll find something on the list that you appreciate!
On Micromanaging Your Habits
Alan Noble: “Habits shape us and yet we can choose to shape our habits. We have agency. Too many of us believe that we lack agency to affect our own lives. But once you accept that you do have the ability to practice what the Bible calls the Fruit of the Spirit of ‘self control,’ another danger arises: you can make the goal of self-control into the goal of self-mastery and fail to accept God’s grace for your humanity.”
Christmas at the Crossroads
This post begins with a story and ends with a companion essay. Dr. Justin Poythress reflects on how Christmas often brings the sharpest sense of disillusionment, and points to the Antidote and Answer for our sense of disappointment and loss.
Flashback: One Man’s Honor Is Another Man’s Shame
We need to show honor in ways that are appropriate to our culture and meaningful to our parents while still remaining faithful to Scripture. Thus the way I show honor to my parents may look very different from the Ghanian or Cuban friend sitting next to me at Grace Fellowship Church.
God’s grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.
—R.C. Sproul
