Curated content for Christians
Weekend A La Carte: Listening well to domestic abuse survivors / The only way to satisfy the longings of your soul / Confronting a loved one with narcissism / Missed opportunities and the best of all possible timelines / Hopeful for the future of disability ministry / and more.
A La Carte: Is ‘gentle parenting’ biblical? / The challenge of choosing between bitter and better / Is that wise? / The spiritual promise the cinema can’t deliver / What is the church? / and more.
A La Carte: Shepherding our children through hardships and trials / Redeem time in the age of TikTok / God is for you, no matter where, who, or what / Three reasons Christians should oppose abortion / 5 signs our inner peace might be a deceptive calm / and more.
A La Carte: How to persevere in winter seasons / The paper dolls of polyamory / The shame of a prodigal daughter / Fish story / Seek God’s face before his hand / Seven things church leaders need to consider / and more.
A La Carte: Back in my day vs for such a time as this / You are not the only one / Dangers in interpreting circumstances / When consequences are irreversible / To lead quiet and peaceful lives / and more.
A La Carte: Dancing in an empty theater / Do you assume motives? / Why I’m a better pastor for you than… / Consider your attitude to the local church / Orthodoxy is a friend of the young / Lord’s Supper is not a pot luck / Kindle deals / and more.
Weekend A La Carte: Ministerial platforms, self-praise, and self-glory / The traits of false teachers / Grace from the God who guards your life / Beware the devil’s normal schemes / Actual trust / and more.
A La Carte: Normalizing LGBTQ pornography / Digital detox and intentional ignorance / Dear ChatGPT users / What is the most important thing taught in the Bible? / The gates of the city / Burial vs cremation / and more.
A La Carte: Reflections on the evangelical featuring / Do liturgical calendars help? / The danger of self-soothing through social media / The T.B. Joshua story points to a problem in many more churches / When your mentor goes to heaven / Poetry / and more.
A La Carte: AI and the forces of darkness / Why do I feel spiritually lifeless? / The irreplaceable encouragement of intergenerational relationships / The servant and the undeserved gift / Hate the sin and love the sinner? / Book and Kindle deals / and more.
A La Carte: John Piper on coffee-sipping in the sanctuary / Aging peacefully / How “evangelical” are Iowa’s evangelicals? / The danger of rejecting a good conscience / Is our view of Satan too small? / Show up for what God has for you / and more.
A La Carte: We’re all muzzled oxen now / Evangelistic confidence in a cynical age / My wife nags me; what can I do? / You know less than you think / Kindle deals / and more.
A La Carte: The dress / In praise of prudence / Will following my heart set me free? / Sustained in the fire / Why we need the bad news of Israelite history / Book allowance / and more.
A La Carte: Gospel hope for America’s largest unreached people group / Where are the peaceable presbyters? / How IVF made its way into evangelical pro-life debates / “Steadfast Love” / Stop looking for friends and start making them / Let us become like little children / and more.
A La Carte: John Piper’s five fears of old age / I changed my mind about social media / How an old man helped save my faith / Foreign territory / How holy are you? / and more.
A La Carte: The Bible is too inexhaustibly interesting to be boring / The wedding promises I would have made / Prayer for my heart this election year / Who was the real Muhammad? / Is Sunday still the first day of the week? / Jesus said NOTHING about homosexuality / and more.
A La Carte: Staying sane in an election year / We need leaders calling the church to faithfulness out of love, not resentment disguised as courage / Marriage as a covenant / Looking for God in all the wrong places / and more.
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.
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.
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.