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Weekend A La Carte (8/24)

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Learning from the Idiot in the Room – Mez McConnell always tells it like it is. “Some people are so frustrating and annoying. That is a fact of life. It is unavoidable. Even the most sanctified and patient of us struggle with difficult people (just ask my wife). There is a danger though and it is this. Sometimes we hear something about another Christian or a leader and we make up our minds about them before we’ve met.”

Healthy Churches Are Messy – Why do some healthy churches look unhealthy from the outside? Sam Rainer provides a really good and helpful explanation.

Bumblebees at 5,000 FPS – How do insects’ wings actually work? We’ve just gotten a little bit closer to finding out. Here is a bumblebee flapping his wings at 5,000 frames per second.

Preaching on Sunday? – Darryl Dash offers some encouragement to you if you’re preaching on Sunday. It will also prove encouraging if you intend to listen to preaching on Sunday.

The Greatest Theologian – R.C. Sproul Jr. writes about the greatest theologian among the Sprouls. “Monday was the 16th birthday of my little girl Shannon. And I am missing all that she taught me. Her nickname, well earned, is Princess Happy. Her happiness, however, was born less from easy circumstances, more from deep wells of gratitude.”

The Solar System – This is brilliant. Well, except for the part about the earth imploding and all of humanity being wiped out a few hundred million years from now. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t end that way.

Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

—Sam Storms

  • Are We Living in the Last Days

    Are We Living in the Last Days?

    The world is a mess. The world is a mess and seems to be getting messier. I could draw up an inventory of all the wars and conflicts, the diseases and disasters, the rise of immorality and decline of virtue, but that would be to tell you what you have already observed and already know.…

  • A La Carte Friday 2

    A La Carte (March 29)

    A La Carte: How to protect your kids from sexual abuse / Talk to God about what hurts / How’s your Bible reading plan going? / Resentment between men and women in the church / and more.

  • A Batch of New Books for Kids

    A Batch of New Books for Kids (and Teens)

    Every month I put together a roundup of new and notable books for grownup readers. But I also receive a lot of books for kids and like to put together the occasional roundup of these books as well. So today I bring you a whole big batch of new books for kids of all ages…

  • A La Carte Thursday 1

    A La Carte (March 28)

    A La Carte: The case against the abortion pill / What I’ve learned about grieving with hope / Heartbreaking deception: teen girls, social media, and body image / Could podcasts save the church from stupidity? / Count it all joy / and more.

  • What God Wants You To Forget

    What God Wants You To Forget

    We are never far from reminding God of our credentials, of providing him with a curriculum vitae that lays out all we are, all we have been through, and all we have accomplished for his sake. We are never far from making the subtle turn from grace to merit, from what is freely given to…

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    A La Carte (March 27)

    A La Carte: New music / Millennials and GenZ / Scotland’s new hate crime law / Cate Blanchett, Easter is for you / Why the Reformed pray for revival / What truly happened to Jesus on the cross? / and more.