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A La Carte (June 5)

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Today’s Kindle deals include Spiritual Game Plan which is essentially a brand new book. Christopher Ash’s Remaking a Broken World is also worth a look.

(Yesterday on the blog: Non-Political Lessons from “Original Sin”)

The Dangerous Secret Your Young Men Are Keeping

This is quite an article about some of the ugly ideologies that are impacting young men.

Gratitude for Closed Doors

Daniel expresses gratitude for some of the doors the Lord closed to him along the way.

Sex, Love, and Marriage in Africa

This article (or newsletter, really) aptly explains why it is so important to have material written specifically for different cultures. In it, Dave and Stacey Hare explain, for example, why good marriage instruction in their context needs to account for ghosts.

Why and How to Begin Scripture Writing

Rebekah Matt is committed to the practice of Scripture writing. Here she explains what it is and how to get started.

Trust the Process

This is good advice in so many areas of life: Learn to trust the process.

Seeing Myself More Clearly

Dave Harvey: “I think the best way to upgrade our self-awareness and assess our self-portraits is through the perspectives of living mirrors. We desperately need the eyes and words of others to help us form a healthy and informed self-perception.”

Flashback: The Least of My Children’s Accomplishments

…even while David may be been sorrowful that he would not be the one to build the temple, he must have been overjoyed to know that the task would fall to his son. Even while he grieved that he would never see it, it must have warmed his heart to know that his son would not only see it but build it. 

The Church needs pastors who’ve had the swagger gospeled out of them.

—Jared Wilson

  • Works & Wonders June 14

    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…