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Weekend A La Carte (January 3)

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My thanks goes to Harvest House Publishers for sponsoring the blog this week to ensure you know about The Farmer Who Chose to Plant Kindness, a book by Costi & Christyne Hinn that your children will enjoy.

If you’re after other books, Westminster Books is hosting a 2025 Bestsellers Encore Sale.

Today’s Kindle deals include more great books! Things have been a bit quiet through the holidays but should normalize next week.

Is a Quiet Life Consistent with the Culture Wars?

The Bible calls Christians to live a quiet life. But is that kind of quiet life consistent with the culture wars?

Welcome to WALL-E’s World

“For the past century or two, our civilization has collectively embarked on a journey in search of the perfect vacation, imagining, on the other side of all our industrial age blood, toil, and sweat the ultimate pleasure-dome of a leisured post-work society.”

How to Not Fall Away

William Boekestein offers some wisdom on not falling away from the Lord. “I was recently driving with my young daughter a few days after she publicly professed her faith in Christ. She asked an important question: Not everyone who says they trust in Jesus stays faithful to him. How can I be sure that isn’t me?”

Happy New Year. Choose Your Kingdom.

“As we step into a new year, my challenge for you is simple, but not easy: choose your Kingdom.” Why is this so important? Because “it seems increasingly clear that many Christians are living with divided loyalties, caught between two kingdoms.”

When You Don’t Get Anything Out of Devotions

There will inevitably be times when you don’t get anything out of your devotions. What should you do in such times?

As Far As It Depends On Me

Peter Mead offers several ways you can resolve to live well in 2026.

Flashback: Three Kinds of Blog (and the Future of Christian Blogging)

…as I think about the future of Christian blogging, this is one of my foremost concerns—that as bloggers migrate away from personal blogs to instead submit their content to ministry sites, we are giving away the ability to say what we want to say, when we want to say it, and how we want to say it.

We insanely run at hell as though it were heaven, and reject heaven as though it were hell itself.

—Ray Comfort

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    Are We Post Woke?

    It is too early to tell, I think, whether the “wokeness” craze has already peaked and even begun to slip into decline, or whether it’s just pausing to gather energy for another surge. What seems clear for the moment, though, is that it has lost at least some of its initial momentum, probably because it…

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    A La Carte (January 13)

    A La Carte: A cautionary tale / Raising hands in worship / Freshen your prayer life / Exposing adultery to the light / Reject the religion of efficiency / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Petty Fight

    Petty Annoyances and Minor Insults

    I wonder if you are like me in that, as you look back on your life, you realize that most of the circumstances that have troubled you, most of the annoyances and disgruntlements, were produced by circumstances that were hardly worth noticing.

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    A La Carte (January 12)

    A La Carte: Happy 80th, John Piper / Practical principles for marriage / Benefits for daily Bible reading / Philip Yancey / Stingy-generous / From sermon to article / Kindle and Bible study deals / and more.

  • Table

    A Front Door and a Family Meal

    Baptism is a kind of front door to the local church, the God-ordained means through which a person identifies with Jesus Christ and formally comes to belong to Christ’s body, the church. Baptism is the church’s sign that this person is one of us, a brother or sister in the Lord, who has now been…

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    Weekend A La Carte (January 10)

    A La Carte: An elder’s authority / Don’t use AI to cheat in school / Against the algorithm / An age of outrage / What’s weird? / The good news about bad days / and more.