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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

  • The Most Neglected Element of Worship

    The Most Neglected Element of Worship

    There are some elements of public worship that receive a great deal of attention. These elements are taught, practiced, rehearsed, and perfected until they are as good as they can be. In most churches, this includes the music, of course, and often the preaching. Why do these receive so much attention?

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    A La Carte (May 20)

    The pastor who refuses to back down / The missionary with Ebola / Why we don’t trust pastors / Rushing our quiet times / The other side of seminary / The remedy, the problem, and the church / Why we need to interpret the Bible / Kindle deals / and more.

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    A La Carte (May 19)

    The wrong lessons from the latest scandal / The blessing of being forgotten / If your chatbot offers prayer / Have tongues ceased? / Consider the small town / Thinking Christianly about complex topics / Book releases / and more.

  • Off the Hook

    God Doesn’t Ask You To Let Him Off the Hook

    There are many ways that human beings can display our pride and arrogance toward God. There are many ways that even those of us who love him can display that we think we know better than he does. There are many ways we can behave with conceit, but perhaps never more so than when we…

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    A La Carte (May 18)

    I am not enough for my kids / The dangerous days past middle age / Are you filled with the Spirit? / Give away lots of money / The best way to resist temptation / A year with Pope Leo / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Works and Wonders May 17

    Works & Wonders (May 17)

    Works & Wonders features Nate Bargatze vs. Beyoncé, Eric Church & Jonathan Haidt, houses for €1, “Gone Away with a Friend,” hymn sings, a Sunday devotional, and more.