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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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    A La Carte (September 8)

    Early marriage is a trajectory decision / John Piper on daily vigilance and lifelong productivity / Why America worships its cold-blooded killers / Skipping church helped my soul / Reminders for achievement addicts / What are young men turning away from? / and more.

  • Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie”

    When Netflix announced they would debut a Little House on the Prairie series, I received the news with a sense of dread. While I knew it could be like All Creatures Great and Small and remain relatively faithful to the spirit of much-loved books, it could also be like Rings of Power and be anything…

  • A La Carte (September 7)

    Mother, give yourself away / This is not what I meant / Lindsay Clancy / The only thing green are the weeds / An open door doesn’t mean walk in / The pastoral hard cases: “no one noticed” / Kindle deals.

  • Works & Wonders

    Works & Wonders (September 6)

    Works & Wonders: Beautiful creation / Photography awards / Blackwing pencils / World’s narrowest islands / Be a stowaway / Vanished Vikings.

  • Weekend A La Carte (September 5)

    The cities that said yes to drugs / Just bury your trash / The rise of transactional relationships / Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity / How much is that gene-edited dog in the window? / Covenantal theology / Reader recommendations / and more.