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A La Carte (May 18)

Christian Audio is having a mix and match sale; select 4 books and you’ll get all 4 for $15. Maybe load up your phone before that long vacation drive?

Eight Of The Most Common Worship Leading Mistakes

Jamie Brown: “Our goal is not to become flawless worship leaders who never make mistakes. Our goal is simply to keep being humbled by our awareness of our imperfection, and to keep growing, so we can more effectively point our congregations to Jesus in the power of the Spirit, not the power of our own professionalism.”

Women Use Porn Too

It’s so important to realize that pornography use is not only the domain of men. “There’s no more frightening place to sit than alone in the shadows with your sin. The permeating decay of sin’s destruction is the stuff of true nightmares. But what if pastors and friends from church were inadvertantly helping you stay in the shadows?”

Grand Canyon Time Lapse (Video)

This is an amazing time lapse video showing the beauty of the Grand Canyon.

Robert E. Lee’s Central Tenet: Providence

This new biography of Robert E. Lee is definitely on my list of books to read.

American Workday, By Occupation

This is a neat visualization of how people spend their days.

On This Day in 1926

On this day in 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson scandalously disappeared. Here’s how it all happened. “What if I told you that one of the most famous fundamentalist preachers of the 1920s and 30s was not a man but a woman, and not just any woman, but one who went through two divorces and who became something of a sex symbol.”

Parenting is Discipleship

It’s a great way to look at parenting–as discipleship.

Flashback: On Writing Well (5 Big Tips)

We learned recently that William Zinnser has died. He was known primarily as the author of On Writing Well, a classic guide to composing non-fiction. Here are 5 things Zinnser taught me.

If you are idle in Christ’s work, you are active in the devil’s work.

—C.H. Spurgeon

  • Tools I Use

    What I Use (and Don’t Use) To Make this Site

    A friend recently said something that disquieted me. He said that he assumes I make use of AI in creating the articles I post to this site or in selecting the articles I link to on other sites. I suppose it’s a fair assumption since so many people across so many fields are now relying…

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    A La Carte (August 11)

    A La Carte: Audacious prayer / Your soccer coach has a plan for your life / Contending without being contentious / Why Reformed doctrine matters / The dark side of God’s sovereignty / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Church

    The Custom-Crafted Church

    Though every child at times wishes it were otherwise, we do not get to choose our brothers and sisters. Rather, through the miracle of conception, God chooses who will join our families.

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    Weekend A La Carte (August 9)

    A La Carte: CCM, the Gaines, and Christian subculture / Inner experience as the ultimate sexual authority / A father in challenging times / The case for pew Bibles / Love never fails / The gospel and our kids / and more.

  • Investment

    Are You a Good Investor?

    Sometimes you read a book and realize quickly that it probably won’t make a tremendous difference to your life. It could be that the book simply isn’t very good—we have all encountered those books. Or it could be that its information is so irrelevant that there is nothing to gain from it, or already so…

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    A La Carte (August 8)

    A La Carte: Why being late to church matters / Everything changes, but God doesn’t / John Piper on silent and speaking women / Physical and spiritual health / Your life as a TV extra / A father’s counsel to his daughter / and more.