Curated content for Christians
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.