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A La Carte (September 28)

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Today is an amazing day for Kindle book collectors as there’s a large collection of excellent resources on theology and Christian living. You can find them on the Kindle deals page.

Logos users will want to check out this long list of commentaries on sale.

(Yesterday on the blog: A Side Of Perfect Beauty in Every Providence)

The Blessing of (Good) Authority

Jonathan Leeman makes an insightful points here: “Really, people don’t hate authority, because we all love the freedom to decide things and to create. We just don’t like other people’s authority because we like deciding and creating things for ourselves.”

If You Don’t Evangelize at Home, You Won’t Overseas?

“In this post I hope to offer a qualification to a good general principle. I have often heard it said that if you don’t share the gospel in your home culture, you won’t share it in a foreign culture either. There is no sanctification by aviation, it is said. I largely agree with this sentiment. Whether you live on mission at home is a very good indication of whether you will live on mission overseas or not.” But maybe it’s not quite so simple…

Do Smartphones Make Us Dumber?

Would any of us be that surprised if they do?

7 Questions about Conversion

Here’s a handy Q&A about conversion.

Three Theses About Cuties

Without commending every part of this article, I do think you’ll find it interesting in a number of ways, and especially with the framing of its three theses. It leads to this provocative (but demonstrably true) conclusion. “Cuties caused an uproar because post-60s liberalism lacks the resources to justify a taboo against pedophilia—and deep down, everyone knows it.”

Amy Coney Barrett Could Reshape The Supreme Court

WORLD magazine has an article about Amy Coney Barrett. “U.S. Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whom President Donald Trump announced Saturday as his pick to replace Ginsburg, may well become a cultural inspiration for religious conservatives.” (Also, Joe Carter says 9 things about her while Al Mohler covers her nomination on The Briefing.)

Premature Beauty

“I did some research and found out that a common reason that trees change color before they should is because they are in distress. The beauty of the tree was brought about by its own personal distress, and God used our personal distress and pain to display His amazing grace and the beautiful colors of His glory.”

Flashback: How an Affair Really Begins

That decision to neglect the pursuit of your wife, that surrendering of marital intimacy, these were only the first small, sinful steps to the destruction of your marriage.

Our children should grow up with the voices of their fathers pleading for their souls in prayer ringing in their ears, leading to their salvation, or else haunting them for the rest of their lives.

—Megan Hill

  • Marriage

    When Your Spouse Stops Being Your Project

    Many marriages stall at the same point: each spouse convinced the breakthrough will come only when the other finally changes. What if the real breakthrough begins somewhere else?

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    A La Carte (March 25)

    Embracing slow sanctification / Men are lost / Your attention isn’t failing, your environment is / Notes on justice / Ships passing in the night / It is Christ who saves, not Christians / and more.

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    A La Carte (March 24)

    Check your guns at the door / Counseling the victim identity / Christian sexual ethics / Leaders are readers / Missionary meditations from the Middle East / Personal callings / and more.

  • Here We Stand! A Call from Confessing Evangelicals for a Modern Reformation

    Thirty years ago, evangelical leaders gathered in Cambridge, MA, to take a stand for truth. That moment led to the Cambridge Declaration—and sparked a call for a modern Reformation. Now, Here We Stand! returns in a newly revised edition from Alliance Publishing with new insights from leading voices like Carl Trueman, Sean Michael Lucas, and…

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    A La Carte (March 23)

    Equipping your children to navigate a hostile world / What you know about your spouse / The tyranny of Christian experience / From marching to murmuring / The Bible isn’t a smartphone / Love the hard ones / Kindle deals / and more.