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A La Carte (March 13)

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As usual, you will find a nice selection of Kindle deals to consider today.

(Yesterday on the blog: When The Path That I Fear Is the Way He Has Set)

Somebody Just Made Up a New Religion, I Guess

Alan Noble: “One way the contemporary weirdness about death appears is through a hope and striving that it will not ever come, embodied in figures like Bryan Johnson, who has just announced on Twitter (as one does in 2025) that he is ‘building’ a ‘new religion’ called ‘Don’t Die.’” Noble explains why this religion was perfectly designed for the contemporary world.

For God So Loved This Anxious Generation: Signs of Revival on Campus

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra writes about potential signs of revival on campus. “As the culture darkens, especially on university campuses, the light of Jesus is shining brighter. As the promises of sin prove themselves false, the image-bearers of God in the next generation are looking for something better.”

Immerse Yourself in Church History

Through robust study content and high-quality materials, The Church History Handbook is a valuable resource for studying every major period of church history and is designed to last a lifetime. (Sponsored)

The Sun Is a Shadow

Jacob explains how the sun is actually a shadow.

Walking Towards Destruction

“Trouble in this world isn’t a surprise. As Christians, we know it’s not only a possibility but a certainty. Sin will cause brokenness, injustice, and despair. We’re mere sojourners, after all. We travel and live for a time—waiting for our better home. In the meantime, we’ll feel the groans of the labor that takes us there one wave at a time.” So how should we live in light of this reality?

Get More Out of Your Reading: 9 Tricks for Success

Here are 9 ways to get more out of your reading. “Learning how to get more out of your reading is learning how to see the truth, goodness, and beauty the author is proclaiming to the reader. Learning how to get more out of your reading is learning how to see the shadow of the Greatest Story woven into the book in your hands.”

True for Our Souls

“A thing that, at times, has been difficult for me is learning to reconcile the truths of Scripture that I know are true because it’s God’s Word, yet have not seemed to be true or, at the very least, have not felt true in my experience.” That’s true for all of us at times, I think.

Flashback: We Who Have Few Talents and Sparse Gifts

God is the giver of every gift and the gifts he gives to his people are only ever good. Our task is to receive them from his hand, whether one talent or ten, and unleash them all for the good of others and the glory of his name.

If we are interested in God, we should be interested in theology.

—Michael Horton

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