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A La Carte (January 19)

Is God Sovereign Over My Free Will?

John Piper ventures into difficult territory with an answer to these questions: “Will God use His sovereignty to overwrite our free will at times to exemplify His perfect will? And if so, do we truly have free will?”

How Diverse Was Early Christianity?

I’ve really been enjoying Michael Kruger’s blog and the way he has been taking on some common charges against Christianity. “The more the label ‘Christianity’ can be tossed around indiscriminately, then the more it appears that Christians could believe just about anything (and did). It strips the word of all its meaning.”

Your Driverless Car

I guess this isn’t too surprising: “As with all utopian schemes, [the driverless car] will come bearing big-government policy interventions and control that require major economic policy justifications and macro-economic analysis to justify action.”

Living Intentionally Together as a Married Couple

There are a few suggestions here for living together intentionally as a married couple.

The FAQs: Pastor Saeed Abedini

Joe Carter does a FAQ on the long-awaited freeing of pastor Saeed.

This Day in 1563. 453 years ago today, the Heidelberg Catechism was first published in Germany. *

Great Books Selections

Jim Hamilton offers two short lists that may be helpful to those who want to explore some great books.

0.0% of Icelanders 25 Years or Younger Believe God Created the World

There is work to be done in Iceland! Do I have any Icelandic readers? I’d love to know about the church situation there. You can contact me here.

Bad Dugout Decisions

This article shows what (formerly) common baseball decisions have been proven faulty through sabermetrics. (A thought: The pitchout has been proven ineffective. But doesn’t the mere threat or possibility of the pitchout have an intangible way of slowing down runners?)

Sibbes

It would be a good contest among Christians, one to labor to give no offense, and the other to labor to take none.

—Richard Sibbes

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    Are You a Good Investor?

    Sometimes you read a book and realize quickly that it probably won’t make a tremendous difference to your life. It could be that the book simply isn’t very good—we have all encountered those books. Or it could be that its information is so irrelevant that there is nothing to gain from it, or already so…

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    A La Carte (August 8)

    A La Carte: Why being late to church matters / Everything changes, but God doesn’t / John Piper on silent and speaking women / Physical and spiritual health / Your life as a TV extra / A father’s counsel to his daughter / and more.

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    A La Carte (August 7)

    A La Carte: Gen Z turns to the occult / Taking phone addiction seriously / The picture on the nightstand / A tongue for every tribe / The woman caught in adultery / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Family Update

    A Family Update (And an Engagement!)

    It has been some time since I have shared a family update, and I acknowledge it is long overdue. So here is what’s new in my life, family, and ministry over the past few months.

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    A La Carte (August 6)

    A La Carte: Feelings and faith / Do you talk too much? / Broken relationships and broken hearts / Guiding children through the digital age / Creeds and confessions / A nature video / Book and Kindle deals.

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    A La Carte (August 5)

    A La Carte: Phone-free policy / The AI apocalypse/ When possessions possess you / A theology of money / Ways to serve your kids’ school this year / Last words / Kindle and Logos deals.