Skip to content ↓

Weekend A La Carte (January 3)

A La Carte Collection cover image

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

  • Weekend A La Carte (June 13)

    Egg freezing is a booming business / Talk to the A.I. me / Is aging becoming optional? / Feminism and the Fall / The lie of living your truth / Moving on from the Christian Nationalism moment / and more.

  • An Ideal Resource For Your Family Devotions

    An Ideal Resource For Your Family Devotions

    There is a lot I miss from the days when our children were young. High on the list is family devotions. Nick once described our family as having a “Spartan-like commitment” to them, though I remember as much failure as success and as many misses as hits. Still, there’s no doubt that over the 26…

  • A La Carte (June 12)

    The curious case of extra resurrections / Are kids too expensive? / Why hot takes are the enemy of conviction / Piper on preaching outrage / A daily rhythm of prayer / Forgetting and pursuing / A La Quiz / The funnies / and more.

  • A La Carte (June 11)

    We lost the baby / The Bible is cessationist (and wondrous!) / Thinking about Eastern Orthodoxy: a primer for evangelicals / Virtue signalling in the church / What is God’s providence? / Restlessness / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Conform

    You Can Conform to Christ Even if You Don’t Conform to Me

    One of the aspects of the Christian faith that I find particularly perplexing is the freedom God gives his people to obey him in different or even opposite ways, so that one person’s obedience is another person’s disobedience. Even as two people take the same action, one might be obeying him and the other disobeying…

  • A La Carte (June 10)

    Does prayer make a difference? / Portrait of an abortionist / Pushing back against the black tax / Bring your whole self to work / Blessed are the weak / When service isn’t a transaction / A pastoral analogy / Bill C-9 will soon be law in Canada / and more.