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A La Carte (November 28)

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Abundant Thanksgiving in Poverty and True Wealth – I love the little historical snippets Vance Christie shares from time to time.

Carolling the Story – Keith Getty gives 5 reasons to love carolling the story. (I’m looking forward to seeing The Gettys in concert tonight in Hamilton!)

What Mothers Are Thankful For – From what I’ve observed, this is bang-on.

Thank God for God – If you’re going to be thankful for anything, you ought to start at the top.

Mom EnoughMom Enough is a new book from Desiring God and it is free for the taking.

The Identity Crisis – This article from The Atlantic says, “Americans—particularly Millennials—are getting more tattoos than ever. Is a shifting, increasingly uncertain culture to blame?”

Pink

An ineffably holy God who has the utmost abhorrence of sin was never invented by any of Adam’s descendants.

—A.W. Pink

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    Optimistic Denominationalism

    It is one of the realities of the Christian faith that people love to criticize—the reality that there are a host of different denominations and a multitude of different expressions of Christian worship. We hear it from skeptics: If Christianity is true and if it really changes people, then why can’t you get along? We…

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    The Path to Contentment

    I wonder if you have ever considered that the solution to discontentment almost always seems to be more. If I only had more money I would be content. If I only had more followers, more possessions, more beauty, then at last I would consider myself successful. If only my house was bigger, my influence wider,…

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    It Begins and Ends with Speaking

    Part of the joy of reading biography is having the opportunity to learn about a person who lived before us. An exceptional biography makes us feel as if we have actually come to know its subject, so that we rejoice in that person’s triumphs, grieve over his failures, and weep at his death.