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A La Carte (July 1)

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Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians! I hope and trust it will be a restful, celebratory kind of day.

Today’s Kindle deals include a long list of solid works like Costi Hinn’s God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel as well as books by MacArthur, Stott, Zacharias, and others. You may also want to sort through Amazon’s collection of monthly general market deals.

Memory, Monuments, Morality, and Mayhem: The Burden of Reckoning with Historical Symbols

Al Mohler: “Across the nation, crowds topple monuments and remove statue after statue. Conversations abound about the names of army bases, endowed university chairs, parks and street names—it is a controversy about names, and it has gripped many countries around the world, especially the United States. From a Christian worldview, this massive issue comes down to four words: memory, monuments, morality, and mayhem. These are all part of the story.”

A Special Birthday

So sweet…

Why the US Has So Many Filipino Nurses (Video)

This video explains why the US (and not just the US) has so many Filipino nurses. There’s quite a history to it…

Be Quick to Listen and Slow to Think

There’s wisdom in being quick to listen and slow to think. “For Christians who seek to apply the message of James 1:19, let me urge this: Be quick to listen, and slow to think. Slow thinking doesn’t mean no thinking and it certainly doesn’t suggest superficial thinking. When we slow down to think, we actually take time to create arguments and thoughts that might change the world and not change the moment.”

Why Some Christian Leaders Don’t Post About Current Events on Social Media

Speaking of being quick to listen and slow to think (and speak), David Qaoud has written a good article about why some pastors don’t use social media to discuss current events. “In a word — pressure. That’s how many Christian leaders feel about having to post about current events on social media. But it shouldn’t be this way.”

Shepherding: The Work & Character of a Pastor

Pastors and ministry leaders may want to look at the new edition of the 9Marks Journal which, as you may surmise from the title, is all about the work and character of a pastor.

How Church History Will Help You Defend the Faith

Michael Haykin explains how church history helps the task of defending the faith today. “The early centuries of the church saw Christianity threatened by a number of theological heresies: Gnosticism, Arianism, and Pelagianism, to name but three. While history never repeats itself exactly, the essence of many of these heresies has reappeared from time to time in the long history of Christianity.”

Flashback: Services Shaped Like an Hourglass

We begin our service distracted, narrow our focus to Jesus Christ, then broaden our gaze to living in this world for God’s glory. We do it again the next week, and again the week after that.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

—Charles Spurgeon

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    A Daily Diet of Doctrine

    A while back I realized I needed to brush up on some of these and began to organize a system of spaced repetition—a way to encounter these doctrines on a regular basis, thus reinforcing them and keeping them fresh in my mind. And it was right then…

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    A La Carte (October 11)

    A La Carte: An extraordinary, supernatural conversion / Does free will exist? / End-of-life music / Don’t let politics hijack the pulpit / Schizophrenia / and more.

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    A La Carte (October 10)

    A La Carte: How women combat comparison / Recognize your pastor this month / Gone are the dark clouds / Why does God say no to good things? / Ministers of loneliness / Book and Kindle deals / and more.

  • O Jesus I Have Promised

    Give Me Grace to Follow!

    Knowing that we can be self-deceived, we must examine our lives to ensure we are living as Christians are called to live—that we are putting sin to death, that we are coming alive to righteousness, and that we are finding ever-greater joy in our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. And always we must pray…

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    A La Carte (October 9)

    A La Carte: The normalization of slander / Doctrine and formation / Destructive relationships / Why Satan wants you to think you’re alone / Laughing at yourself is grace / and more.

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    A La Carte (October 8)

    A La Carte: A Christian response to polygamy, incest, and pedophilia / 10 diagnostic questions for you and your spouse / neither despair nor blind optimism / To confront or to cover / Did Jesus lie to his brothers? / Huge book and commentary sales!