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A La Carte (January 28)

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There are some excellent Kindle deals to consider today. J. Warner Wallace’s Person of Interest is just a couple of dollars, as is Donald Macleod’s book on the atonement. There’s also one for people struggling with pornography, one for people dealing with marital conflict, and quite a few more.

(Yesterday on the blog: If I Could Change Anything about the Modern Church)

Rubbing Shoulders Throughout Eternity

This is a really enjoyable piece of writing about time and eternity.

The Wildness of Orthodoxy

“Everywhere we look, there are people deconverting, deconstructing, and running to some new and interesting heresy. They fashion themselves as wild and free. They have shaken off the shackles of orthodox Christianity, and now they pursue their own unique experience. They march to the beat of their own drum, and like to think that they are charting a new course. But I want to call a spade a spade.”

The Middle of Somewhere

Andrea Sanborn: “To the rest of the country—the rest of the world–we don’t matter, here in the Middle of Nowhere. And that’s fine, for the most part. Most of us are happy to let the noise and craziness of the world pass us by. But that doesn’t mean that we are unseen by God. That we are unnoticed by Heaven.”

Babel & the Sin of Glorifying Ourselves

“The great sin of the city of Babel is not tower-building, or unified labor toward a societal goal. The sin of Babel is the sin of seeking independence from God.” And therefore it’s a sin that remains a temptation today.

Is Roman Catholic Baptism Valid?

For obvious reasons, this is a question paedo-baptists usually ask. That said, I appreciate Jim McCarthy’s handling of it.

Parenting Is Still Hard. Jesus Is Still King.

Yes, both are most definitely true. (See also Lisa Updike’s “Parenting is Hard“)

Flashback: What Can I Do To Repay My Debt?

What can we do for the One who has done so much for us? What cost would be sufficient and what length of service would be adequate?

Never presume God will grant you apart from prayer what he has ordained to grant you only by means of prayer.

—Sam Storms

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    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: 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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    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.