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A La Carte (New Years Edition)

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Happy new year and welcome to 2014. I continue to take it easy through the holidays, but did put together an edition of A La Carte this morning.

This month’s free audiobook from ChristianAudio is the Hear the Word ESV Bible! Logos users will want to download their free book of the month (a real page-turner!), Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges: Hebrew by Frederic W. Farrar.

God With Us – I enjoyed this adaptation of a Charles Spurgeon sermon on the birth of Christ.

Don’t Waste Your Weakness – Piper: “Since 2007, millions of people have read books and taken inventories designed to find our strengths. These are useful for positioning people in places of maximum effectiveness. But I am calling you to give attention and effort in finding your weaknesses and maximizing their God-given purpose.”

The Most Important Leadership Trait You Shun – “Imagine two lists: One contains the qualities that a business person should have, and another includes the attributes that most business people would say they wouldn’t want to have. There’s only one term I can think of that might top both lists: vulnerability.”

8 Kinds of Blog Commenter – Yup, this looks just about right.

The character of a life is not set in two or three dramatic moments, but in 10,000 little moments.

—Paul Tripp

  • Feasting

    Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

    God’s path of wisdom for you is both serious and delightful—more of both than you might expect. Following Christ will both deepen you and free you. It’s a brilliant strategy for glad sanity and steady integrity—all the way.

  • A La Carte Friday 2

    A La Carte (May 8)

    Sunday style and the devil’s beat / The mortification equation / The cult of pastoral vulnerability / Friday funnies / Greet one another with a … what? / Before it’s an emergency / and more.

  • A La Carte Thursday 1

    A La Carte (May 7)

    I will go to him / A letter to those discouraged by fallen pastors / Richard Dawkins / The most powerful words you’ll ever write / Eight myths about heaven / God alone is Lord of the conscience / Kindle deals / and more.

  • The End of Raising Children

    The End of Raising Children

    Michaela is a married woman! We enjoyed a simple ceremony on Monday afternoon and, after a sweet reception, she and Caleb hit the road to begin their new life together. And just like that, Aileen and I are finished raising children.

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    A La Carte (May 6)

    A La Carte: Eugenics as self-loathing / Raise kids to be reality respecters / The pastoral virtue of avoidance / Live son or dead daughter? / The sin we’ve stopped taking seriously / Evaluating cultural Christianity / and more.

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    A La Carte (May 5)

    Conspiracy and the Christian / The algorithm is changing how we speak / Values AI suggests / When darkness descends / The incredible human hand / A culture of chronic doubt / and more.