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Weekend A La Carte (October 3)

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What “Orwellian” Means

Most people use the word wrong. This is a great little video that describes what it really means (and why we want to use it rightly).

A Quick And Easy Guide To The Planned Parenthood Videos

Mollie Hemingway provides a quick and easy guide to the 10 videos that have been released to this point.

Don’t Neglect the Work of Speck Removing

Are we actually supposed to remove the speck from a brother’s eye? And can we see clearly enough to do that? John Piper answers in his inimitable way.

FactChecker: The Umpqua Community College Shooting

Joe Carter: “In an attempt to help dispel and clarify some of the claims being made I’ve put together what we know so far. There is still much we do not know about this mass killing, and even most of what we know is tentative so I’ll update this article as necessary.”

Why Four Gospels?

Why did God give us four gospels instead of just one? It’s a valid question.

Tomorrow in 1692. Increase Mather published his “Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits,” which ended the Salem Witch Trials. *

The Execution of Alfredo Prieto

“It is undeniably disturbing to drive to the scheduled killing of another.” This article tells how an execution actually unfolds.

Don’t Leave Jesus Behind

Thanks to P&R for sponsoring the blog this week with “Don’t Leave Jesus Behind.” Sponsors play a crucial role in helping keep the blog going, so I am grateful for each one.

Whitney

Can you have any greater assurance that you are praying the will of God than when you are praying the Word of God?

—Don Whitney

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    Weekend A La Carte (August 8)

    Reader Recommendations / Against gambling / Is gambling sinful? / Our line in the sand on AI / What does the Bible teach about nations? / Ross Douthat and the future of digital media / The extras are tired / and more.

  • Living in the Era of the Lie

    You could probably make the case that we are living in the era of the lie. Maybe every era on this side of Genesis 3 has been an era of the lie, but lies seem to have taken on greater prominence than ever at a time that has been labeled as “truthy” and “post-truth” rather…

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    A La Carte (August 7)

    The mark of the beast / Did Jephthah really sacrifice his daughter? / My side of the bed is cold / The marital conflict multi-tool / When pain has purpose / Counting blessings / The Funnies / and more.

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    A La Carte (August 6)

    Art and Jesus jukes / No record of wrongs / Connected to the church / You are not enough / The need behind the need / Your unique God-given platform / Poetry / Kindle deals.

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    Cruising Downstream, Laboring Upstream

    You may know from experience that it is easy to take a boat downstream and much harder to take it back up. You certainly know from experience that it is easy to follow sin downstream and much harder to change your course to pursue holiness.