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A La Carte (October 10)

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Follow Your Passion – Here’s why following your passion isn’t always a good idea.

Living with Ebola in West Africa – A sobering photo gallery from The Big Picture.

Glory Be to God – Jamie Brown has a free song for you. “As an Anglican, I was aware of the Te Deum being in our Book of Common Prayer, but as is the danger with most liturgical elements, I had gotten used to it.”

The Boring Parts – Nancy Guthrie tells us the best thing about the boring parts of the Bible.

The Key to Radical Generosity – The key to the best kind of generosity: God doesn’t need you. “[I]t’s just that he’s not looking for people to supply his needs. He’s not short on money, talent, or time. He has never commanded us to go save the world for him; he calls us to follow him as he saves the world through us.”

Practical Evangelism – Here’s some very practical help on being a more faithful evangelist.

Dever

To really hear the gospel is to be shaken to your core. To really hear the gospel is to change.

—Mark Dever

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  • Hosting Your Own Little Haman Party

    Hosting Your Own Little Haman Party

    It often surprises me how inadvertently selfish we human beings can be and how obliviously self-centered our behavior can become. I see this in many ways, but one has stood out to me over the past little stretch of time.

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    A La Carte (November 12)

    A La Carte: The pastor and the pundit / Why non-Christians oppose trans ideology / The mercy of grief / The gift of midlife friendship / Overdiscipling children / Critically ill loved ones / Kindle deals / and more.

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    A La Carte (November 11)

    A La Carte: From addition to multiplication / The post-literate pastor / Praying for children who have walked away / To my almost-adult kits / The goal of our soul care / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Temptation

    When It Feels Like the Temptation Is Coming From Outside

    No Christian tradition is perfect, which means that every Christian tradition has its own strengths and weaknesses. Every tradition has areas in which it presses hard to understand and live according to biblical truth, but then also areas in which it inevitably fails to completely match Scripture’s teaching and emphases. Since every tradition is the…