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A La Carte (February 27)

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Reading Reimagined – You can probably read way faster than you think you can. Click the link, then click on the cell phone to give it a try.

For Moms Stuck Inside – Here’s an article for moms who are feeling cooped up during a long winter. “But once Christmas is behind you and you are facing a couple months or more of bad weather, it’s easy to feel down. This is especially true if you’re a mother of young children and you are more confined to your house than usual.”

Surface Appearances – Doug Wilson on Son of God: “[W]e have yet another Jesus who perpetuates our perennial and mule-headed idea that holiness consists of one part anemia, one part effeminacy, two parts stoner-mystique, and one part slight constipation, this time with a British accent. But I don’t want a Russell Brand Jesus.”

Jo’s Story – Here’s a sweet two-part article on fostering (here’s part two). (Note: the blogger is my sister and Jo is my cousin, so this is an all-family affair!)

What Put Blockbuster Out of Business? – This is a fascinating infographic that shows the battle between Netflix and Blockbuster.

The Jesus Lens or the Jesus Tea-Strainer? – Andrew Wilson: “I don’t think Steve Chalke, Brian McLaren, Tony Campolo, Rob Bell and co are reading the Bible through a Jesus lens, as much as they are reading Jesus through a selective, progressive postmodern lens, and then reading the rest of the Bible through that.”

Chandler

If you’re a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.

—Matt Chandler

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    10 New and Notable Christian Books for July 2025

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    What’s Going On In Your Pastor’s Mind?

    It is one of the strengths, or perhaps one of the weaknesses, of the human mind that it can have different “tracks” playing at the same time. Even as one series of words is emerging from a person’s mouth, an entirely different series of words may be flitting through his brain. He can have an…