Skip to content ↓

A La Carte (July 3)

Today’s Kindle deals include a collection from Crossway and a couple of other deals. Be sure to check the long list of deals from late last week as well.

Be sure to check out this month’s deals for Logos. They’ve got some great commentaries and resources on sale.

Private Confession and Rebuke

John Stott: “We have to confess and make restitution to those we have wronged, that they may forgive us; we have also to seek to bring to repentance those who have wronged us, that we may forgive them. This is a widely neglected duty. Most of us are as irresponsible as Cain in imagining that we are not our brother’s keeper.”

Money and Happiness

“Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, became the richest man in China after Alibaba IPO’d for a record $25 billion last September. But Ma was just as happy — perhaps even happier — when he was barely making any money right out of college.”

Altar of the Feels

“If you have kids of most any age, chances are that today they felt all the feels. And, if you are a mama of said children of any age, then I’m betting that today you, too, felt all the feels.” But what is to be made of all these feels?

Counting to a Billion (Video)

How long would it take to count to a million? How about a billion?

Why Did God Create?

Steve Lawson answers. “God was not inwardly lonely or personally empty; He was entirely self-satisfied, self-content, and self-contained. So God did not create because of some limitation within Himself. Instead…”

Explosive Data

“Fireworks injuries don’t only happen in July, but they are, unsurprisingly, far more common in that month versus the rest of the year.” Here’s the data. Be safe tomorrow.

Worshipping a Golden Calf on Sunday

“The hottest ‘worship war’ going is the one taking place daily in the sanctuary of our own hearts. But we must wage this war because none of us is a bystander to idol worship.”

Flashback: 4 Tips For Dealing With Procrastination

Here I offer you 2 big-picture tips and 2 very practical ones for dealing with procrastination. These are the very things that I have found so helpful in my own life.

What matters supremely is not the fact that I know God, but the fact that He knows me.

—J.I. Packer

  • The Great Man and the Local Church

    The Great Man and the Local Church

    There is a way of telling history that focuses on the impact of the few great figures that rise up in any generation. This “great man theory” says that history can best be understood when we focus on the dominant figures of the time. History, it says, turns on the actions, decisions, obsessions, and natural…

  • A La Carte Collection cover image

    A La Carte (April 29)

    A La Carte: The absence of opposition / Life and death are in the power of the fingers / Preaching Goliath’s sword / This piece of land / Sin wants us isolated / Foolosophy / Kindle deals / and more.

  • A Book Unlike Any Other

    A Book Unlike Any Other

    The Bible may be a book, but it is a book unlike any other. The Bible is inspired—breathed out by God and in that way perfectly reflects the mind and will of God. The Bible is also complete, sufficient, inerrant, and infallible. Because the Bible is all these things and so many more, it is…

  • A La Carte Collection cover image

    Weekend A La Carte (April 27)

    A La Carte: How to talk to your teens about Taylor Swift’s new album / Soft discipleship / Why doesn’t God make his existence more evident? / Three ways God is working through your suffering / Jesus didn’t come to make any nation great / and more.

  • Free Stuff Fridays (21Five)

    This week the blog is sponsored by 21Five, a new Canadian Christian bookstore. In recent years, many Christian bookstores across Canada have closed their physical and online doors. This is disappointing for believers, as many of the best products come from abroad and can be costly or complicated for Canadians to bring home. There are…

  • New and Notable Books

    New and Notable Christian Books for April 2024

    It is surprisingly difficult to find a list of Christian books that have been released in any given month—especially if you want that list to be filtered by books released through particular publishers. That’s one of the reasons why I close each month by coming up with my list of New and Notable books. I…