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A La Carte (November 7)

A La Carte Friday 2

May the Lord be with you and bless you on this fine day. I very much enjoyed my time in California and enjoyed meeting some of you (and/or your children) at TMU and TMS. Today I’m heading home.

Westminster Books has lots of deals on new and noteworthy books for kids.

Today’s Kindle deals include quite a nice variety of good books.

Is There a Christian Genocide Happening in Nigeria?

Oyewole Akande is a Nigerian believer who wanted to offer his perspective on the recent reports of violence in Nigeria.

CityAlight – Rise With The Sun (Video)

CityAlight has just released their own video for “Rise with the Sun” (which was written to accompany my book and documentary From the Rising of the Sun). It should also now (or soon) be available on Spotify, Apple Music, and all the other apps. Enjoy!

The AI Revolution is Coming for our Kids

Clare Morell explains in hard-to-read detail how the AI revolution is already coming for our kids. “In case you haven’t been following as closely all the news stories about the harms to children from AI chatbots over the last few months, let me give you a brief lay of the land of what parents must understand about the threats of AI to our children that are already here.”

4 Prerequisites for Ministry No One Talks About

“If you’re thinking about ministry, you need an honest appraisal of the difficulty inherent to the calling. You need to hear about the prerequisites no one talks about.” Here are four of them.

Eight Ways to Live Out Your Assurance

John Piper lists eight ways that Christians are to live out their assurance of salvation. “You can be reading the Bible almost anywhere, and the question will pop into your mind: Is this real? Or maybe more commonly, Am I real at this point? Which is why, perhaps, the Bible provides so many different ways of helping us maintain our confidence, our assurance — not only that Christ is real but that we are real, that our faith is true, saving faith that will bring us all the way through death into God’s happy, everlasting presence.”

Give Your Best Away

Kristin explains why and how it’s okay to give your best away. “God blesses us with good things to enjoy and to share. How attractive authentic generosity and openhandedness are in this selfish world! When fear takes the wheel, generosity fades, giving way to miserly behaviors, giving others less than our best.”

Flashback: On Hoarding Wealth and Fostering Gifts

God has given you talents—things you may be unusually good at. Are you using these for his glory?

We bring so little glory to Christ, because we seek so much our own.

—Octavius Winslow

  • Thoughts

    Can Satan Put Thoughts Into Our Minds?

    Each of us is familiar with the experience of being tempted to sin. Sometimes these temptations arise from outside of us and sometimes they arise from within. Each of our three sworn enemies—the world, the flesh, and the devil—has the ability to tempt us to do what God forbids or fail to do what God…

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    A La Carte (December 3)

    A La Carte: Christ or Christian culture? / How to see your own blind spots / Kevin DeYoung’s questions for Christian Nationalists / Beware of desensitization / I want to be the princess / and more.

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    A La Carte (December 2)

    A La Carte: Lab rats for gender drug tests / How your church can serve the poor / Cross-cultural ministry / Cross-cultural marriage / The gift of nothing to do / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Self Loathing

    Don’t Think Lower Thoughts of Yourself than God Does

    I can be prone to self-loathing. Sometimes this takes the form of thinking about things I’ve done or recounting words I’ve said and detesting myself for them. Sometimes it takes the form of thinking about who I am and hating who God has made me to be, or thinking about the way God has gifted…

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    A La Carte (December 1)

    A La Carte: Should I stay or go? / Dust / Worshiping God at the ends of the earth / Why many reject penal substitutionary atonement / We have not arrived yet / Every human an image bearer / and more.

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    Singing Is Not Filler Time

    While it may be rare to find a church that dedicates a substantial portion of the service to prayers and Scripture reading, it would be rare to find a church that fails to dedicate a substantial portion of the service to singing. Christians love to sing, and we have always regarded it as an essential…