A La Carte (December 25)

Dec 19, 2015

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This Day in 336. 1,679 years ago today was the earliest known year that Jesus’ nativity was celebrated on this day. Merry Christmas! *

Barclay

Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
—William Barclay

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…

Sep 7

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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.

Sep 7

A La Carte

5 min read
Works & Wonders (September 6)

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

Sep 6

Articles

4 min read
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.

Sep 5

A La Carte

11 min read
Free Stuff Fridays (P&R Publishing)

Free Stuff Fridays: Devotional Giveaway!

Sep 4

Giveaways

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In His Utter Despair, He Began to Sing

A review of Matt Boswell’s Create in Me a Clean Heart. He takes a slow walk through Psalm 51—a manual for repentance, renewal, and understanding God’s mercy.

Sep 4

Book Reviews

5 min read

What a Church Can Do Before a Pastor Falls

Christian, your pastor may someday fall. I certainly hope that’s never the case, and I hope he, like the great majority of his peers, remains qualified to the very end of his time in ministry. But even though it may be unlikely that his ministry collapses under the weight of scandal, immorality, or disqualification, it…

Sep 2

Articles

8 min read
Parents, Do You Protect Your Children’s Dignity When You Discipline Them?

I often think about the time my family visited a church and sat close to a child who was behaving quite badly. Because he was only a couple of rows ahead of us, we could hardly fail to notice that he was sitting neither still nor quiet.

Aug 31

Articles

6 min read
Why Fallen Pastors So Rarely Walk Away

Have you ever wondered why pastors who have been disqualified from ministry so rarely concede to the reality of their disqualification and just move on? Have you ever wondered why they so often disappear for a year or so and then turn up at another church or in a different denomination?

Aug 24

Articles

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Works & Wonders (August 30)

Works & Wonders: Stunning Animals, Beautiful Bibles, Hidden Treasure, Mathematical Rivers, and Companies that Are Worse on Purpose

Aug 30

Articles

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In His Utter Despair, He Began to Sing

A review of Matt Boswell’s Create in Me a Clean Heart. He takes a slow walk through Psalm 51—a manual for repentance, renewal, and understanding God’s mercy.

Sep 4

Book Reviews

5 min read

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