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Weekend A La Carte (November 1)

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Mars Hill Church has announced that their multiple campuses will soon each become an independent church and that Mars Hill as an entity will cease to exist.

If you’re still in the Reformation Day spirit, you may enjoy this free lecture on Luther from Carl Trueman.

I’m grateful to the team at B&H and to the HCSB for sponsoring the blog this week.

I appreciate this perspective on preaching the gospel to yourself: Stop Preaching and Start Acting.

John Piper writes about Brittany Maynard and says, We Are Not Our Own. “I write mainly for those who are considering this issue afresh in light of Brittany’s story.”

Thomas Kidd looks to Colonial America and How (Not) to Pray Against Cultural Decline.

Here are some signs that you may be a Christian Celebrity Wannabe.

Mathison

Those who preach the gospel preach in a graveyard.

—Keith Mathison

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    A La Carte: The deconstruction of Evangelical missions / Is this the one? / False advertising by Christian colleges / The great wizardry of Oz / Embrace the hardship / and more.

  • Hosting Your Own Little Haman Party

    Hosting Your Own Little Haman Party

    It often surprises me how inadvertently selfish we human beings can be and how obliviously self-centered our behavior can become. I see this in many ways, but one has stood out to me over the past little stretch of time.

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    A La Carte (November 12)

    A La Carte: The pastor and the pundit / Why non-Christians oppose trans ideology / The mercy of grief / The gift of midlife friendship / Overdiscipling children / Critically ill loved ones / Kindle deals / and more.

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    A La Carte (November 11)

    A La Carte: From addition to multiplication / The post-literate pastor / Praying for children who have walked away / To my almost-adult kits / The goal of our soul care / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Temptation

    When It Feels Like the Temptation Is Coming From Outside

    No Christian tradition is perfect, which means that every Christian tradition has its own strengths and weaknesses. Every tradition has areas in which it presses hard to understand and live according to biblical truth, but then also areas in which it inevitably fails to completely match Scripture’s teaching and emphases. Since every tradition is the…