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A La Carte (December 4)

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Children’s Book Sale – Reformation Trust (i.e. Ligonier Ministries) has all of its children’s books on sale today only, just on time for Christmas shopping. They are great stories and are beautifully illustrated.

Evil Spirits and Electricity Problems – Here’s another fascinating article from Amy in Tanzania.

Read the Bible – I quite like the idea of this one-year Bible-reading plan. Bonus: You get to read a good book while reading the Good Book.

Persecution Update: Somalia – Frontline Ministries has an important persecution update from Somalia.

An Urgent Ministry Opportunity – Crossway is looking for your help in distributing 250,000 study Bibles.

Reflections on Christian Publishing – Dane Ortlund offers some interesting reflections on Christian publishing.

Ebola Is Still Ravaging Sierra Leone – “America has stopped paying attention, but Ebola is still ravaging Sierra Leone.”

CHS

God has so closely twisted his own glory and our happiness together, that as we advance the one we promote the other.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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    When It Feels Like the Temptation Is Coming From Outside

    No Christian tradition is perfect, which means that every Christian tradition has its own strengths and weaknesses. Every tradition has areas in which it presses hard to understand and live according to biblical truth, but then also areas in which it inevitably fails to completely match Scripture’s teaching and emphases. Since every tradition is the…

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  • Prayer hands

    Nothing but a Passionate, Heartfelt Sin

    When we think of worship, our thoughts almost always gravitate to singing—the two have become inseparable and almost synonymous in our minds and in our church services. Yet singing is actually just one component of worship. We worship when we sing, but we also worship when we read Scripture, when we listen to a sermon,…

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  • Embodied Holiness

    The Biblical Call To Bodily Care

    Christians can often have a strange relationship with the body. Certain Christian traditions have treated the body as if it is no more than a shell for the soul, a material self that is of little importance when compared to the immaterial self. Other Christian traditions have treated the body as if it is of…