Works & Wonders (June 21)
First chief perfect, Then came a soccer ministry, A quadrillion miles of fungus, Psalm 119 volume 2, Prince Edward Island, Fried apple pie.
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Technology is Fast, Sanctification Is Slow, and Claude Can’t Do It For You
AI excels at speed and efficiency, but sanctification is the slow work of a lifetime. Here’s why no tool, even if its incredibly powerful and helpful in other ways, can accomplish sanctificatIon on your behalf.
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Do the Most Visible Christians Get the Most Joyous Welcome?
We often imagine that the most visible Christians on earth receive the most joyous welcome in heaven. But if we assume this, we may be proving that our thinking has been more shaped by the kingdom of this world than by the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Works & Wonders June 14
Works & Wonders: Bowing the knee or shaking the fist, 39 years to translate the Bible, And Can It Be, How to understand a trillIon, Landsat images, and World Cup covers.
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An Ideal Resource For Your Family Devotions
There is a lot I miss from the days when our children were young. High on the list is family devotions. Nick once described our family as having a “Spartan-like commitment” to them, though I remember as much failure as success and as many misses as hits. Still, there’s no doubt that over the 26…
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You Can Conform to Christ Even if You Don’t Conform to Me
One of the aspects of the Christian faith that I find particularly perplexing is the freedom God gives his people to obey him in different or even opposite ways, so that one person’s obedience is another person’s disobedience. Even as two people take the same action, one might be obeying him and the other disobeying…
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The Two Kinds of Content You Consume
At some point we all began to refer to articles and video as content. And today we are drowning in it! Here is a simple filter for telling content created to serve you apart from content created to serve its maker.
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Works & Wonders June 7
This week’s Works & Wonders offers: The wonder and the beauty, older and rarer, His Love, Ferrari Luce, The Covenanter Story, and cheese curds.
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Strong to the End
You have probably heard of Davy and Natalie Lloyd, even if the names aren’t immediately familiar. In May 2024, you most likely heard the news about two young American missionaries to Haiti who, along with one of their Haitian colleagues, were brutally murdered by one of the many gangs that dominate the country.
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Presents or Presence: What Dad Really Wants for Father’s Day
I asked dads what they actually want for Father’s Day. The answer was clear: presence matters more than presents—but a few books, good coffee, heartfelt letters, and multitools are nice as well.
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10 General Market Books I Have Enjoyed Recently
While I am committed to reading and reviewing Christian books, I also enjoy reading a steady diet of books published for the general market. Though my interests lean toward history, I do enjoy other topics as well. Here are a few of the titles I’ve enjoyed over the past couple of months.
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The Color of Money is Gray: Rethinking Wealth and Inheritance for the Next Generation
Christians are living longer and accumulating more wealth than ever—but our habits for passing that wealth on haven’t kept pace. Here’s a biblical framework for rethinking inheritance, generosity, and stewardship for the next generation.
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Works & Wonders (May 31)
Works & Wonders—Interesting and uplifting pieces on: Not something but someone, fence digging, weird bird sounds, as __ as __, you can tell the world, TypeLit, and so on.
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What Does It Mean to Be Discerning?
Though I have heard it said of others, I have never had anyone tell me that I am a man of discerning tastes. I do not have a discerning palate or a discerning sense of style. I can, however, contentedly live without these if only I can have a discerning mind and a discerning spirit.
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You May Not Need Nearly as Much House as You Think You Do
Our house is emptier than it has ever been, and that makes it feel bigger than it has ever been. It’s funny how the home that often felt just a little too small for the five of us now feels just a little too big for the two of us. Even a little house can…
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Works & Wonders (May 24)
Interesting and uplifting content for Sunday: Proclamation rather than proof, Fill This House, On Rainbow Wings, strange sea creatures, a faith crisis, and more.
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The Most Neglected Element of Worship
There are some elements of public worship that receive a great deal of attention. These elements are taught, practiced, rehearsed, and perfected until they are as good as they can be. In most churches, this includes the music, of course, and often the preaching. Why do these receive so much attention?
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God Doesn’t Ask You To Let Him Off the Hook
There are many ways that human beings can display our pride and arrogance toward God. There are many ways that even those of us who love him can display that we think we know better than he does. There are many ways we can behave with conceit, but perhaps never more so than when we…
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Works & Wonders (May 17)
Works & Wonders features Nate Bargatze vs. Beyoncé, Eric Church & Jonathan Haidt, houses for €1, “Gone Away with a Friend,” hymn sings, a Sunday devotional, and more.
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Free Stuff Fridays (P&R Publishing)
Free Stuff Fridays: 10 Copies of Cradled: Christ’s Care for Postpartum Moms by Annie VanderHeiden!