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A La Carte (December 31)

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10 Questions to Ask – Don Whitney gives you 10 questions you might want to ask yourself today. (On Brian G. Najapfour’s blog you may enjoy 3 reminders about the year ahead: Don’t worry about it, don’t boast about it, don’t waste it.)

What Is a Real Christian? – “In his book Religious Affection, Edwards answered his question by outlining twelve marks of genuine Christian faith. Inspired by this description, [Todd] Wilson aims to provide the contemporary church with a similar description of what it means to be ‘real’.”

Shallow and Narrow – Jeremy Walker responds to a lot of the “best book of the year” lists he’s seen recently.

Missing the Outrage of the DaySlate rounded up all of this year’s outrages, and Mike Leake wants to talk about it.

Google Got It Wrong – The open workplace is pretty much destroying productivity. Let’s go back to having walls and doors!

The Prodigal Prince – If you’re up for some longform reading you may enjoy this profile of the Roberts family–Oral Roberts’ family, that is.

If you leave the fountain foul the streams cannot be pure. Renewal must begin with the heart.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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    Are We Post Woke?

    It is too early to tell, I think, whether the “wokeness” craze has already peaked and even begun to slip into decline, or whether it’s just pausing to gather energy for another surge. What seems clear for the moment, though, is that it has lost at least some of its initial momentum, probably because it…

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  • Petty Fight

    Petty Annoyances and Minor Insults

    I wonder if you are like me in that, as you look back on your life, you realize that most of the circumstances that have troubled you, most of the annoyances and disgruntlements, were produced by circumstances that were hardly worth noticing.

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  • Table

    A Front Door and a Family Meal

    Baptism is a kind of front door to the local church, the God-ordained means through which a person identifies with Jesus Christ and formally comes to belong to Christ’s body, the church. Baptism is the church’s sign that this person is one of us, a brother or sister in the Lord, who has now been…

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