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A La Carte (February 20)

A La Carte Friday 2

You may be interested in this sale on the ESV Study Bible. You’ll find over 30 editions of it on sale.

Today’s Kindle deals include books on sports, predestination, assurance, and more. At the top of the list, you’ll find Everything Is Never Enough, which gained a lot of recognition in last year’s various book awards.

The Bright Sadness of Ben Sasse

Lots of people have been benefiting from a couple of recent interviews with Ben Sasse, one of which is with his good friend Michael Horton. Well worth watching! “Death is a wicked thief, it’s an enemy, but it’s pretty great that it’s the last enemy. All the stuff that I regret for having been an inadequate husband and son and father and friend and worker, truth teller, all the stuff that I’ve been weak on, I’m gonna be freed from all of that. Death is the last enemy.”

Working Together or One Work? Getting the Trinity Right

Matt Emerson expresses how important it is that we get the Trinity right. In this case, he focuses on the way each of the persons of the Trinity works together.

2026 Missionary National Conference: The Lord Who Sends

This October 14–16, join John Piper, Kevin DeYoung, Mark Dever, and others in Fort Worth, TX. Together, we’ll worship Christ and search God’s word for what it means for our churches to serve The Lord Who Sends. Early bird pricing ends soon. Register now to save. (Sponsored)

Godly Motherhood and Pinterest Dreams

“A beautiful woman with perfectly windswept hair holds the hand of a tan, pudgy toddler. On the beach in swimsuit bottoms, with cellulite-free legs and a sweatshirt that looks effortless yet classic all at once, the mother looks on adoringly as the sun sets slowly behind her. The toddler has salty curls and a gap-tooth smile, in a diaper that somehow has not absorbed any sea water. It’s a photo unlike any beach day I’ve had with my children.”

The Only Way Out Is Through

Marc Sims: “Every difficulty presents a choice: out or through. School gets hard. Work gets hard. Training gets hard. Holding to your convictions gets hard. Marriage gets hard. Friendship gets hard. Church gets hard. Parenting gets hard. And, in different ways, you will be asked (by yourself or by others): out or through?”

What Else Does God Name?

Seth reflects on God’s naming of the stars and wonders if it points to a greater pattern.

Waiting Is the Hardest Part

John Piper: “This is the great challenge of the Christian life: God’s delays, God’s timing. God’s timing is almost never our timing. Therein lies the great test of our faith for all of us, isn’t it? How long, O Lord? How long? Fifteen times in the Psalms, we hear the cry ‘How long, O Lord?’ because God is God and we’re not.”

Flashback: Daddy, I Need You

Our God is most present just when he is most needed—ever ready and ever eager to offer his sweet comfort. His compassion—his wondrous fatherly compassion—draws him near to us when we so desperately need his help.

Beware of a murmuring spirit. We may complain to God, but we must not complain of God. We should resign all to His hand. We must not only submit, we must acquiesce.

—William Plumer

  • Weekend A La Carte (November 7)

    The Hutterites’ guide to technology / Searching for jobs, Gen Z feels like it’s staring into ‘the void’ / The gospel according to Peter (Thiel) / Scientism and the allure of control / Can science explain sparkling rivers? / What led to Christianity Today’s crisis?

  • I Regret to Inform You That Heaven Tourism Is Back

    I Regret to Inform You That Heaven Tourism Is Back

    I regret to inform you, dear reader, that heaven tourism is back. The genre possibly never went away entirely, but it did at least disappear from the bestseller lists for several years. Sadly, it has returned in Gabe Poirot’s 18 Days in Heaven.

  • A La Carte (November 6)

    Don’t despise the red flags / Your thoughts are shaping your life / Can’t you just love everyone? / Selfies are not the self: forming embodied youth in a disembodied age / Effective altruists and the spreadsheet gospel / 4 Applications for the order of love—from the home to the ends of the earth /…

  • A La Carte (November 5)

    When you feel guilty about your giving / The missing piece in John Mark Comer’s quiet time / A manifesto for phone-free church / The pull of Rome / 4 Misconceptions about spiritual warfare / Slouching toward Narnia / Kindle deals, and more

  • A Daring Suggestion for Netflix

    A Daring Suggestion for Netflix

    Netflix appears to have fallen on hard times and I have some suggestions that I’d like to think would help it: cut the sex, nudity, and profanity, and gain back the viewers it’s long been alienating.

  • A La Carte (November 4)

    Can I love my enemies while addressing wrongs and protecting myself? / Is missions too costly for kids? / Don’t stock the pantry with temptation / Churches face a shortage of worship leaders / AI brought a mathematician to Ecclesiastes / Discerning between godly and worldly grief / Harvest in fearful times / and more.