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Weekend A La Carte (January 28)

Today’s Kindle deals include several solid picks. You’ll want to give them a look, I think.

On Board with Waterboarding?

Richard Phillips: “Most alarming to me has been the support of waterboarding and other forms of torture among evangelical Christians. To my surprise and indignation, instead of applying the obvious implications of the Sixth Commandment, Christian leaders have lined up in support of waterboarding.”

Caught in a Dragnet

Mandy Belz reports on the precarious situation for Christians in Turkey.

The Gimli Glider

I’ve always loved the story of the Gimli Glider (though I’m glad I wasn’t aboard). Note that there’s one swear word worked into the story.

Justification by Attendance

This is bang-on: “As kids, I bet most of us reading this post probably hated math—all the subtracting, borrowing, and dividing. These are all words that make pastors nervous. No wonder teachers called them ‘problems.’ But as we aged and began ministry, something miraculous happened and we suddenly fell in love with numbers.”

Churches on Super Bowl Sunday

A surprising number of churches are going to modify their day somehow to adjust for Super Bowl Sunday.

This Day in 1499. 518 years ago today Katherine von Bora, a German nun who married Martin Luther, was born. She was 26 and Luther 41 the day they were married. *

Marital Love Must Be Superlative

Here is wisdom on marriage from the Puritans.

Can Loved Ones in Heaven Look Down on Me?

John Piper answers this one.

Flashback: How To Offend a Room Full of Calvinists

It’s not actually all that hard…

Study the Gospels with Eyes on the Gospel

I’m grateful to The Gospel Project for sponsoring the blog this week.

I grant you that true repentance is never too late, but I warn you at the same time, late repentance is seldom true.

—J.C. Ryle

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    Weekend A La Carte (April 25)

    This weekend’s A La Carte covers Thomas Kinkade’s hidden legacy, Gen Z and real experiences, John Mark Comer in The Atlantic, Carl Trueman on the trans war, eugenics and AI, LLM sycophancy, and more.

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    Shooting Up

    Jonathan Tepper grew up watching his missionary parents transform the lives of heroin addicts in Madrid. Though he has wandered from the faith, his memoir may be the most Christian book you read this year.

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    A La Carte (April 24)

    You’re lazy / Six major views of baptism / John Piper and fur babies / You don’t need a therapist / Stop keeping score / Death and resurrection / A La Quiz / Kindle deals / and more.

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    A La Carte (April 23)

    The risk of persecution / The West’s strange genius / Our best years are ahead / Hope in the face of death / Keep the Christian calendar / The grief I did not know / Book reviews / Gen Alpha / and more.

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    A La Carte (April 22)

    Aspire to be lay elders / A mundane life is a courageous life / Aim high, repent often / The problem with deaconism / What are you angry about today? / An original poem / Kindle deals / and more.