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Weekend A La Carte (11/24)

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Squeezing Harder Than That – This is some very good writing from Douglas Wilson. “Now I can understand a vote against women bishops as a preliminary move to try to undo the ordination of women priests. And I can understand a vote for women bishops as the next logical step after having established the practice of ordaining women priests. What I don’t get is the affirming the ordination of women priests and opposing them as bishops. The pig, once swallowed by the python, has to move on down the line.”

NFL Long Shot – This is a long article but a very interesting read. It describes the hard life of an NFL long shot.

Too IntrospectiveTrevin Wax wrote an article on the danger of Puritan-like introspection. Both Jeremy Walker and Carl Trueman have offered helpful responses.

Twice-Yearly Sale – ChristianAudio is having their twice-yearly sale, which means that they’ve got a lot of good audio books that have been reduced in price. (Lots of bad ones, too…)

Was Spurgeon Off His Rocker? – “It was a stretch you might say. A 19th century British preacher apprehended a 3,000-year-old psalm for peace and courage in the midst of dire circumstances. Andree Seu Peterson tells the story in a recent article…”

There would be no manifestation of God’s grace or true goodness, if there was no sin to be pardoned, no misery to be saved from.

—Jonathan Edwards

  • Living in the Era of the Lie

    You could probably make the case that we are living in the era of the lie. Maybe every era on this side of Genesis 3 has been an era of the lie, but lies seem to have taken on greater prominence than ever at a time that has been labeled as “truthy” and “post-truth” rather…

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    A La Carte (August 7)

    The mark of the beast / Did Jephthah really sacrifice his daughter? / My side of the bed is cold / The marital conflict multi-tool / When pain has purpose / Counting blessings / The Funnies / and more.

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    A La Carte (August 6)

    Art and Jesus jukes / No record of wrongs / Connected to the church / You are not enough / The need behind the need / Your unique God-given platform / Poetry / Kindle deals.

  • Laboring Upstream

    Cruising Downstream, Laboring Upstream

    You may know from experience that it is easy to take a boat downstream and much harder to take it back up. You certainly know from experience that it is easy to follow sin downstream and much harder to change your course to pursue holiness.

  • A La Carte (August 5)

    Sophie Cunningham and transgender lies / Please don’t pray for me / PowerWash Simulator / Three ways to know I am a real Christian / Against gambling / Struggle against sin doesn’t signal defeat / and more.