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A La Carte (January 29)

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Authenticity, Honesty, and the Stay-At-Home-Mother – Here’s a challenge: “The mommy wars have made great advances in battling the false fronts of picture-perfect blog posts, where dinners always look fabulous, children are always beautifully dressed, and husbands always come home with roses. But we’ve replaced those filtered versions of our lives with other versions…”

Church Size – “If you are a pastor, church planter, or key leader, you need a healthy and theologically sound attitude for dealing with church growth, size, and numbers.” Here are 5 important things to remember when it comes to church size.

A Lukewarm Interpretation of Hot and Cold – “‘Because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.’ Here’s an interpretation of this often-misused verse.

An Interview with Ben Zobrist – I enjoyed this interview with Ben Zobrist. And I appreciated his token shout-out to the Blue Jays.

Good Piper Quotes – For years now this blogger has been mining funny and quirky quotes from John Piper’s sermons. This is the last batch.

The Historical Reality of Adam – Guy Prentiss Waters gives the lay of the land in the battle over the historical Adam.

Piper Sin

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

—John Piper

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    Works & Wonders: Bowing the knee or shaking the fist, 39 years to translate the Bible, And Can It Be, How to understand a trillIon, Landsat images, and World Cup covers.

  • Weekend A La Carte (June 13)

    Egg freezing is a booming business / Talk to the A.I. me / Is aging becoming optional? / Feminism and the Fall / The lie of living your truth / Moving on from the Christian Nationalism moment / and more.

  • An Ideal Resource For Your Family Devotions

    An Ideal Resource For Your Family Devotions

    There is a lot I miss from the days when our children were young. High on the list is family devotions. Nick once described our family as having a “Spartan-like commitment” to them, though I remember as much failure as success and as many misses as hits. Still, there’s no doubt that over the 26…

  • A La Carte (June 12)

    The curious case of extra resurrections / Are kids too expensive? / Why hot takes are the enemy of conviction / Piper on preaching outrage / A daily rhythm of prayer / Forgetting and pursuing / A La Quiz / The funnies / and more.

  • A La Carte (June 11)

    We lost the baby / The Bible is cessationist (and wondrous!) / Thinking about Eastern Orthodoxy: a primer for evangelicals / Virtue signalling in the church / What is God’s providence? / Restlessness / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Conform

    You Can Conform to Christ Even if You Don’t Conform to Me

    One of the aspects of the Christian faith that I find particularly perplexing is the freedom God gives his people to obey him in different or even opposite ways, so that one person’s obedience is another person’s disobedience. Even as two people take the same action, one might be obeying him and the other disobeying…