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A La Carte (September 1)

Today’s Kindle deals include : We Cannot Be Silent by Al Mohler, True Friendship by Vaughan Roberts, Building Blocks in Earth Science by Gary Parker, Transforming Homosexuality by Denny Burk & Heath Lambert, and Beginning at Moses by Michael Barrett. You may also be interested in looking through their monthly general market deals for $3.99 or less.

Logos users will want to pick up this month’s free book: Thabiti Anyabwile’s What Is a Healthy Church Member? You can get a second book in the 9Marks series for $1.99 and enter a draw to win the whole thing.

Christian Audio is giving away a book I’m not familiar with: The Boy Born Dead.

Why Chairs Are Cheap and EpiPens Are Expensive

Joe Carter: “Why are EpiPens so expensive? Because Mylar has a government controlled monopoly that prevents anyone else from making similar products. And yet, ironically, many economically uninformed people are blaming the rapid price increase on the free market.”

Sex Negative

Carl Trueman has some brilliant lines in this article. “Sex is no longer the consummation of an exclusive bond. Now it is just a form of recreation. A bit like golf, but usually cheaper and generally without the plaid pants.”

The Simple Solution to Traffic

Basically it’s your fault and my fault and to fix it we need to turn over the keys…

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

R.C. Sproul explains what we pray for when we say, “Give us this day our daily bread.”

Atheism Is Not Endearing

Atheism just can’t escape its natural consequences. “Atheism is the undisputed ruler of the internet, but it reigns alongside the most twisted forms of pornography and human degradation imaginable. There is a reason that Reddit and 4Chan are bastions of sophomore skepticism on one wing, and factories of sexual nihilism and abuse in the other.”

The Invisible Mother

This is a powerful article on mothers whose children are stillborn. “I am a mother with no living children. As a result, I am often forced to defend my motherhood, especially when others — whether through unthinking neglect or through an unwillingness to identify with me — strip it from me for having empty arms.”

This Day in 1803. 214 years ago today the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge was established. This was the first tract society in North America. *

God Has a Name, and He’s Given It To Jesus

Here’s something to chew on: “Jesus Christ now bears the name Yahweh. And rather than detract from God’s glory, confessing Jesus as Yahweh magnifies it.”

The Mammoth Pirates

Here’s a fascinating story and photo essay about a whole new kind of gold rush in Russia’s Arctic north.

Flashback: Writing Tips

Here are writing tips that focus on the tools and context of writing.

The wheels of justice may seem to turn slowly, but they turn surely.

—Randy Alcorn

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    You’re Exactly As Holy As You Want To Be

    Every Christian is a work in progress. Every Christian is striving for holiness, laboring to put off the old man and put on the new. Though none of us is as holy as we will be in heaven, I trust that each of us is holier now than when we first came to Christ. And…

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    A La Carte (December 4)

    A La Carte: The finish comes fast / The strength of gentleness / Produce something average / CNN repeats Andy Stanley’s falsehoods / How to read and remember / and more.

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    A La Carte (December 3)

    A La Carte: John Piper on gender pronoun hospitality / When there is too much to do / Is Christmas a pagan tradition? / The passion of Jordan Peterson / The joy of our adoption / and more.

  • Is Biblical Counseling for You? Let the Goal be the Guide.

    This week’s blog is sponsored by Insight Counseling, providing counsel, care, and training in the grace and power of Christ.  Click here to find out more. Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would…

  • Modesty Requires Looking Away

    Modesty Requires Looking Away

    The plane reached the terminal in Recife, Brazil and the ground crew opened the door. I have been through more airports than I can count1 and find they all kind of blur together—jetways, corridors, escalators, luggage belts. But for some reason, I remembered this one from my previous visit. After exiting the secure area, I…

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    A La Carte (December 2)

    A La Carte: Cyber Monday deals / Eleven hindrances to answered prayer / Thinking about Bruce Willis and Jesus / Nearly there, nearly home / Progressive ideology leads to paganism / You already work a Christian job / Kindle deals / and more.