A La Carte (March 22)
A La Carte: Taylor Swift, Coldplay, and performative offense / Being human on World Down Syndrome Day / The introvert / On nostalgia / Aspire to be relentlessly interesting / and more.
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A La Carte (March 21)
A La Carte: Where do human rights come from? / Individualism and the churches / The urgency of the many / What should I be giving financially? / Should rich Christians downgrade their lifestyle? / Teaching children / and more.
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One of the Most Urgent Biblical Commands for Our Day
One of the most urgent biblical commands for our day—and perhaps for any day—is to speak the truth in love. Different people at different times tend to overemphasize one of the two factors and underemphasize the other so that some lean away from truth while others lean away from love. But the Lord expects that…
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A La Carte (March 20)
A La Carte: The Titanic was the safest ship of its time / When God blesses others and not us / If a Millennial is born and no one records it on their phone, do they really exist? / Surgical and sexological practices? Not today, Satan / Logos deals / and more.
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A La Carte (March 19)
A La Carte: How to know if you’re using God / The soul-poison of the little word ‘should’ / True, false, or heresy? / Truthful thinking is greater than positive thinking / Unless the seed dies / and more.
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The Phrase that Altered My Thinking Forever
This week the blog is sponsored by P&R Publishing and is written by Ralph Cunnington. Years ago, I stumbled repeatedly on an ancient phrase that altered my thinking forever. Distinct yet inseparable. The first time I encountered this phrase was while studying the Council of Chalcedon’s description of the two natures of Christ. Soon after,…
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Always Look for the Light
For many years there was a little potted plant on our kitchen window sill, though I’ve long since forgotten the variety. Year after year that plant would put out a shoot and from the shoot would emerge a single flower. And I observed that no matter how I turned the pot, the flower would respond.…
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A La Carte (March 18)
A La Carte: God is good and does good—even in our pain / Dear bride and groom / Sin won’t comfort you / Worthy of the gospel / From self-sufficiency to trusting God’s people / The gods fight for our devotion / and more.
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God Takes Us Into His Confidence
Here is another Sunday devotional—a brief thought to orient your heart toward the Lord. God takes the initiative in establishing relationship by reaching out to helpless humanity. He reveals himself to the creatures he has made. But what does it mean for him to provide such revelation of himself? John Calvin began his Institutes by…
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Weekend A La Carte (March 16)
A La Carte: I believe in the death of Julius Caesar and the resurrection of Jesus Christ / Reasons students and pastors shouldn’t use ChatGPT / A 1.3 gigpixel photo of a supernova / What two raw vegans taught me about sharing Jesus / If we realize we’re undeserving, suddenly the world comes alive /…
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Ask Pastor John
I admit it: I felt a little skeptical about Ask Pastor John. To be fair, I feel skeptical about most books that begin in one medium before making the leap to another. Books based on sermons, for example, can often be pretty disappointing—a powerful sermon at a conference can make a bland chapter in a…
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A La Carte (March 15)
A La Carte: Why are Christian workers so often workaholics? / Through the valley of miscarriage / God never needs updating / Sinclair Ferguson’s “Things Unseen” / One downside of listening to online preaching / Various book sales / and more.
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A La Carte (March 14)
A La Carte: How do our kids stay Christian? / The Princess of Wales and the danger of commodified esteem / The receding tides of New Atheism / Did my sin cause my suffering? / Enemies on the narrow road / Plural eldership / and more.
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We Who Have Few Talents and Sparse Gifts
If only I was wealthy, then I could really make a difference in the world,” he told me. “I want to be rich so I can better serve God’s cause, so I can give even more to his work.” But does it really take a lot of money to serve the Lord? In the New…
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A La Carte (March 13)
A La Carte: The message of Jesus is Jesus / When my rights make me wrong / How does the Holy Spirit help me pray? / An insubstantial book for a weighty problem / Repent boldly / Are you weary in ministry? / Book deals / and more.
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A La Carte (March 12)
A La Carte: Encouraging your worship leader / Why aren’t complementarians training women to teach and preach? / Am I the quarrelsome wife? / Can a white person suffer from racism? / Atheist says human rights aren’t real / and more.
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Create a Digital Church Member Photo Directory with Church Social
This week the blog is sponsored by Church Social and is written by Jonathan Reinink. Growing up, I remember our church would periodically coordinate a church-wide photo shoot where all the families in our congregation would take their turn coming to the church, dressed their best, ready to have their photo taken. Those photos would then be…
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Two Ways To Read the Bible
There are two ways to read the Bible. The first way to read it is as a series of stories, books, statements, and teachings that are fragmented and disjointed, that, though they have little relationship to one another, have been compiled into an errant and fallible collection. The other way is to read it as…
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A La Carte (March 11)
A La Carte: Five reminders for the weary and burdened soul / Captive thoughts tame the tongue / Getting organized for the glory of God / How to shake the cynicism habit / Counting the stars / More than a social gospel / Kindle and Logos deals / and more.
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The God Who Reaches Out
There are no truly innocent human beings. Each of us has willfully rebelled against God, but even if we hadn’t, we would still be tainted by the sin of Adam, for “by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners” (Romans 5:19).