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Weekend A La Carte (11/17)

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Sex Is Cheap – Collin Hansen writes that sex is cheap in Birmingham. “We knew Redeemer Community Church meets in a tough neighborhood. In fact, that’s why we’re here. So the sting itself didn’t catch our attention. But you could hear the gasps in the congregation when Joel told us the going rate for a prostitute in our neighborhood. Sex is cheap in Birmingham.”

Phone Restaurant Etiquette – Here’s a helpful guide to the etiquette of using your mobile phone while at a restaurant.

Questions for Expositors – Tim Chester answers ten questions for expositors. This is quite a helpful interview.

Yes, CIA and FBI Can Read Your Email – Here’s a realistic, take-off-the-tin-foil-hat look at what the government can do to access your email account.

Space Pictures This Week – National Geographic puts together some great, recent pictures of space.

Christianity and Celebrity Status – Barnabas Piper offers an insightful look at Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow and what Christians do when they lost interest in their celebrities.

Multitudes who come to church for comfort need to be severely discomfited and awakened out of their lethal slumbering.

—Richard Owen Roberts

  • Bible writing

    If You Had Written the Bible

    Have you ever thought about what the Bible would be like if you had been in charge of writing or editing it? Whatever you would do, I am quite certain you would end up with something that would bear far more resemblance to a systematic theology text than the Bible we hold in our hands…

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    A La Carte (October 20)

    A La Carte: Assisted suicide / The future of Anglicanism / Busyness / When dad will not lead / When you are maligned / Surprised by his goodness / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Bible

    No Guarantee of Life and Vigor

    Many cold and lifeless churches testify to the fact that the mere presence of the Bible is no guarantee of spiritual life and vigor. Many churches have a Bible tucked neatly into every pew, but teach a message radically at odds with the words of that very Book.

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    Weekend A La Carte (October 18)

    A La Carte: The trans train / 3 kinds of forgiveness / It’s better to die / A helper corresponding to him / A former social-mediaholic / Honest church leadership / and more.

  • Anxiety

    You Were Made To Tremble

    Christians have an unusual relationship with trials. While we do not wish to go through trials, and while we generally try to avoid them, we also know that God uses them to accomplish his good purposes in the world and in our lives.