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Weekend A La Carte (August 10)

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My thanks goes to the Missionary Conference for sponsoring the blog this week. The event, which features John Piper and Sinclair Ferguson among others, is coming up fast. But there is still time to buy your tickets.

Today’s Kindle deals include some newer and older titles.

(Yesterday on the blog: A Bit of Earth)

His Faithfulness Outweighs Our Faithlessness

“I cried out in desperation, “Lord, where are you? Why do you seem silent to our pleas when we are so desperate for your help?” The enemy taunted in response, “Your faith must not be strong enough. You must not be learning the lesson he wants you to learn. He won’t answer your pleas until you…” What crushing thoughts. What lies.”

How Is Jesus the Way, and the Truth, and the Life?

“There are two answers to the question, but they are inseparable. There is the objective answer and the subjective answer. Objectively, He is exclusively the way, the truth, and the life because He is God incarnate. Subjectively, His salvation is appropriated to individuals through faith in who He is and what He has done.” C.N. Willborn explains.

The Faith of Closing the Casket

Have you ever thought of the faith it takes to close a casket without completely despairing?

How Do You Value Your Worth?

“I used to call my former financial advisor every few weeks to ask him, ‘What am I worth today?’ My advisor is a great guy, and he performed a superb job of growing my investment portfolio for twenty years, but he never appreciated the irony of my question. A person’s worth, of course, should never be given a dollar value.”

The Changing Fortunes of Codex Vaticanus

This is an interesting biography, of sorts—a biography of a key biblical manuscript.

Considering Self-Assessment

There is an important point to consider in this article: God sees us more accurately than we do.

Flashback: Preparing Yourself to Share the Gospel with Muslims

With Muslims present in every country in the world, including yours and mine, it may be wise for us to be well prepared to share the gospel with them. These books will go a long way to doing just that.

The truly wise are humble because they know they still have so much to learn.

—Don Whitney

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    Weekend A La Carte (August 10)

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