A La Carte: The unmatched impact of being Christians in front of each other / You could be faithful with your frailty / Parents, discipline your little children / The boy at the front desk / discouragement is not always our enemy / The best is still yet to be / and more.
We often make the mistake of thinking that more money would bring more happiness. We know in our minds that money brings as many cares as it does freedoms and that the wealthy are no happier than the merely comfortable. Yet we still believe that we would be more satisfied if we only had more…
Weekend A La Carte: Part of a Christian’s job is to point out that modern life stinks / Moralism is a poor substitute for Christianity / How church leaders can be a non-anxious presence / Stop speaking Christianese, please / Who did Jesus die for? / and more.
It can’t be easy to be a young person today. I suppose it never has been, but it seems that today’s teens and young adults are forced to grapple with especially difficult questions. If that’s true of many different areas, it’s most notably true when it comes to matters of attraction, identity, and relationships. What…
A La Carte: Chastity as worship / Organic Christian living in the local church / What is the prayer of faith? / Artificial wombs for premature babies are on the way / A purpose in chronic pain / and more.
A La Carte: Ban porn now / Tolkien’s Treebeard and the root problem of hastiness / Unpacking “new year, new me” / Consider leveraging your education for the sake of the nations / The new year and the paralyzing nature of fear / and more.
There is something deep inside a man’s heart that longs to be heroic. I don’t know what little girls dream of, but I do know that little boys dream of carrying those girls out of a burning schoolhouse so they can be admired as strong and brave. Teenaged boys dream of fighting in a war…
Mid-Week A La Carte: To the new and nervous Scripture reader / How to start the new year strong: an actionable plan / The great dechurching / Anthony Edwards and his troubling decisions / The cloud of witnesses and the crowd of witnesses / Logos deals / and more.
One of the darkest and most difficult parts of being a special needs family is personal, cultural, and even spiritual isolation. For the person or family affected by disability it is much easier to stay hidden in obscurity than to be judged by the watching world. Isolation not only provides protection from the silent stares…
A La Carte: Counseling troubled dreams / Hanging up the hustle culture to embrace eternal investment / The least resolution for 2024 / A stumbling block to the fatherless / A lesson from American church history / and more.
As the calendar turns from December to January and as 2023 gives way to 2024, a new year is laid out before us. We may have already drawn a few lines and circles on some of the dates—appointments here, vacations there. We may have slotted in a few dreams and plans for certain days and…
Can Evangelical journalists say anything good about Evangelicals? / when we hurt those who are hurting / the Christian new year / If Christianity is true, why do we have to work so hard to defend it? / The unfinished story / Between two worlds / and more.
There are some hymns that disappear because they are simply not very good. There are some hymns that disappear because they are too tied to a particular niche. And there are some hymns that disappear because their language becomes antiquated. I think this hymn/poem by John Newton spans the latter two categories. It is closely…
Weekend A La Carte: A resolution rooted in grace / Will Jesus return in 2024? / No one shared the gospel with me / How do I get over certain anxiety triggers? / Psalm of collective lament / John Piper on those times Bible reading feels flat / Kindle deals / and more.
This week’s Free Stuff Fridays is sponsored by The Master’s Academy International (TMAI). They are giving away the 42-volume Essential MacArthur Library set. The Master’s Academy International (TMAI) is a worldwide network of pastoral training centers that equip indigenous church leaders to preach the word and shepherd their people. They have 19 Training Centers around…
A La Carte: A few thoughts about personal resolutions / Pope Francis, LGBTQ, and semi-pelagianism / How your year turned out / Plan to grow / What were Mary and Joseph doing after Jesus was born? / and more.
Speaking broadly, there are two approaches to daily Bible reading: reading for intimacy or reading for familiarity. Intimacy with the Bible comes by slow, meditative reading that focuses on small portions—deep study of books, chapters, and verses. Familiarity with the Bible comes through faster reading of larger portions—the entire sweep of the biblical narrative. Both are perfectly good…
A La Carte: Should Christians drink alcohol? / Is everything going wrong in the world? / leading your family out of the post-holiday blues / A wasp without a stinger / How to cultivate and develop student leaders / and more.
A La Carte: Should pastors encourage secular therapy? / Top 10 YouTubes of 2023 / We didn’t expect you to come this way / Sinclair Ferguson on devotional habits and resources / Prayers for when Bible reading is hard / and more.
A La Carte: A theology of getting fired for your faith / Free eBook / Reading Scripture rightly / What’s the real cost of our giving? / Cultivating honesty / What’s the point of waiting? / and more.