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Weekend A La Carte (December 27)

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If you are a Logos user, you’ll want to keep up with 12 Days of Logos. It began yesterday and will feature new deals every day. You’ll find lots of great books, Bibles, and commentaries deeply discounted.

Today’s Kindle deals include some books that are well worth a look. And if you haven’t check in for a few days, be sure to scroll down to see what you missed (that is probably still available). The general market deals have been especially strong lately.

Westminster Books has an awful lot of titles on clearance, not because they are bad books but just because WTS needs to thin its inventory.

What Is Still True on December 26th

Zak tells some of what is still true on December 26th (or December 27th, as the case may be).

Top 10 YouTubes of 2025

Every year, Denny Burk puts together a list of his favorite YouTube videos from the year that was. You may enjoy going through them.

Gilead Reveals a Gilded World

This is a really enjoyable article about a really enjoyable book: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, which, as the article points out, is very much worth the read.

The Joy of Bible Journaling

Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth writes about the joy of Bible journaling. “Journaling through the whole Bible was a long process, and not always easy. But think about it: When was the last time you walked down the street and stumbled across a pile of gold? It doesn’t work that way. Finding gold requires time and effort digging for it. In fact, that very picture is used in the book of Proverbs.”

Hey Churches: Make Sure You Have Christmas Songs for All Year Round.

Stephen McAlpine: “Now that we’re only a few days away from packing away the tinsel and the tree, (and from signing up to the gym), can I urge us all not to pack away one thing – deep biblically-informed communal singing? On other words, don’t pack away theologically rich songs with the Christmas baubles.”

No One Is Going to Make You

This will be good to ponder as a new year dawns: When it comes to your devotional habits, no one is going to make you do them.

Flashback: Sex on the Silver Screen – Outsourcing Depravity

We outsource our depravity so we can live within the letter of the law, even while violating the spirit. We are hiring our own equivalent of a Shabbos goy, aren’t we?

Far be it from us to seek a crown of honor where our Lord found only a crown of thorns.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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