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A La Carte (July 5)

There isn’t much new by way of Kindle deals, but do check in if you’ve been offline for a couple of days.

Also, here’s a roundup of this month’s top deals from Logos.

Spurgeon’s Secret for Raising Godly Children

Here are thirteen quotes by Spurgeon about raising Godly children.

How the U.S. Government Will Survive Doomsday (Video)

You know, in case the day comes.

Don’t Skip Sunday School

“To judge the Sunday school book by its cover would be to make a grievous error. Just because one church down the road calls it ‘life groups’ or ‘connection groups’ and your church still refers to the Sunday morning gathering as ‘Sunday school’ doesn’t mean that your church is behind the times. Have you considered the many reasons why you should stop skipping Sunday school?”

Tabletalk Articles

Looking for some good reading? Here’s a selection of articles from the latest issue of Tabletalk.

The Dull Men’s Club (Video)

This is fantastic: A club for men (and women) with dull hobbies.

Don’t Just Tweet Your Proverbs

Jim Elliff is always worth reading. “I don’t quite understand it. Everyone knows that King Solomon was the wisest man in the Old Testament. Yet, he had the most precipitous moral freefall of all the kings.”

3 Ways Ministry Can Make You Conceited

How weak are we, that something as good as pastoral ministry cam make us conceited? Tim Keller explains the connection.

Flashback: Daddy Needs a Vacation

My children may need a vacation, but I need it more.

No chorus is too loud, no orchestra too large, no Psalm too lofty for the lauding of the Lord of hosts.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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    Are We Post Woke?

    It is too early to tell, I think, whether the “wokeness” craze has already peaked and even begun to slip into decline, or whether it’s just pausing to gather energy for another surge. What seems clear for the moment, though, is that it has lost at least some of its initial momentum, probably because it…

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    A La Carte (January 13)

    A La Carte: A cautionary tale / Raising hands in worship / Freshen your prayer life / Exposing adultery to the light / Reject the religion of efficiency / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Petty Fight

    Petty Annoyances and Minor Insults

    I wonder if you are like me in that, as you look back on your life, you realize that most of the circumstances that have troubled you, most of the annoyances and disgruntlements, were produced by circumstances that were hardly worth noticing.

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    A La Carte (January 12)

    A La Carte: Happy 80th, John Piper / Practical principles for marriage / Benefits for daily Bible reading / Philip Yancey / Stingy-generous / From sermon to article / Kindle and Bible study deals / and more.

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    A Front Door and a Family Meal

    Baptism is a kind of front door to the local church, the God-ordained means through which a person identifies with Jesus Christ and formally comes to belong to Christ’s body, the church. Baptism is the church’s sign that this person is one of us, a brother or sister in the Lord, who has now been…

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    Weekend A La Carte (January 10)

    A La Carte: An elder’s authority / Don’t use AI to cheat in school / Against the algorithm / An age of outrage / What’s weird? / The good news about bad days / and more.