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A La Carte (December 9)

Today’s Kindle deals include just two books, but both are solid. Be sure to check out Faker for your teens.

Westminster Books is selling and discounting the Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible. Even if you’re not a KJV user it’s a good study Bible from a conservative Dutch Reformed perspective. Meanwhile, Christian Audio has about a dozen Bibles for sale in audio at just $7.49 each.

Is the Virgin Birth Essential?

You probably know the answer, but may do well to read why it’s so important. Kevin DeYoung explains.

It Came to Pass in Second Grade

I quite enjoyed this tale, this memory. “Once upon a time, long long ago, before people knew better than to celebrate Christmas in schools, when the principal could still haul a student to the office for a whopping, a second grade teacher formed a choir.”

7 Privileges of Being a Child of God

“Feeling weary today? Distant from God? Anxious? Uncertain? In this article Tim Keller warms our hearts with seven breathtaking privileges of being a child of God set out by Paul in Romans 8:14-17…”

A Brief History of France (Video)

Here’s a neat, animated history of France in about 5 minutes.

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Parents would do well to read and consider this one. It asks, when every moment of childhood can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood?

This Day in 1608. 408 years ago today John Milton was born. Beyond writing his most famous work, ‘Paradise Lost,’ Milton authored an exposition of Christian doctrine, a plan for Christian education and political works. *

5 Ways We Stunt Our Spiritual Growth

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I always enjoy reading what Christel Humfrey writes.

Why Are We Still Paying Baggage Fees (Video)?

Airlines instituted baggage fees when fuel prices spiked. Fuel has gone back down, but the fees have remained. Why? And is there any benefit to the consumer?

Seekest Thou Great Things for Thyself?

D.A. Carson: “Probably it’s a sign of my advancing years, but not infrequently a young pastor or a theological student asks me the question, ‘What choices did you make to get to where you are today?’ I fear I always have to disabuse the questioner. No one is more surprised than I am at the turns my life has taken.”

Flashback: 3 Marks of Righteous Anger

Anger can be righteous or unrighteousness, sinless or sinful. Here are 3 marks of righteous anger.

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A child can have no greater inheritance than the godly teaching and example of his parents.

—John MacArthur

  • The Paradoxes of Christianity

    Learn how to engage with cultural issues in a deeply countercultural way. When we embrace the paradoxical character preached by Jesus in the Beatitudes, we experience rich and surprising blessing.

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    On the Far Side of Obedience

    To be human is to be finite—to be limited in our knowledge of past, present, and future. We exist within strict boundaries of time and space, so that we cannot see beyond our present location or beyond our present moment. This is a feature of our humanity and not a bug…

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    A La Carte (October 13)

    A La Carte: I miss the stars / Count the cost / Shame as the vicious trap of sexual sin / Clouds of shame and unbelief / When you’ve been blindsided / Book and commentary sale / and more.

  • For All the Noise We Make…

    We must be as eager to hear the Scripture as to hear the sermon, and we must be as expectant that God will speak to us through the Word as through the message. Rightly do many churches preface their Bible reading with words like, “Listen as I read God’s holy Word.”

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    Weekend A La Carte (October 11)

    A La Carte: Why dads still matter / Character in absurd times / Don’t get baptized in the Jordan / Gen Z is spiritually hungry / Extending hospitality to children / and more.