It’s the season when many parents are making the long journey home, and doing so alone. On the journey there, they had a child in the seat behind them, a child who was making his or her way to college for the first time. But now, as they make the journey back, the seat behind…
For obvious reasons, hospitality can be more challenging for those in a small home than for those in a much larger one. It can be a bit more awkward, too. Yet I’d like to think we have generally been faithful in that regard.
Works & Wonders: Nothing Ever Occurs to God, Reading Maps, Mysterious Shapes, The Phone in Your Hand, An Iceberg Rolls Over, and The Listening Museum
You may know from experience that it is easy to take a boat downstream and much harder to take it back up. You certainly know from experience that it is easy to follow sin downstream and much harder to change your course to pursue holiness.
I met a woman whose perspective on the Christian life was new to me. This became evident on an evening we discussed the Lord’s Supper together. “I don’t need to take the Lord’s Supper at church,” she said. “I do it on my own every morning.”
This week’s Works & Wonders includes Restoring Rembrandt, The Last Museum, Inventing the Fire Department, Hymns of Grace, a Tyndale Documentary, and more.
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No sinner can harden their heart beyond God’s reach. A reflection on why we can pray with confidence for even the most hardened and unbelieving souls.
As one month fades into another, I want to make sure you’re up-to-date on some of the noteworthy new Christian books that were released in July. In each case, I have provided the editorial description so you can learn a little bit about it. There are some great books to look through!
A few months ago I left my phone in a closet and started living without it. Here’s why I did it, how I made it work, and what difference it has made.
Works and Wonders includes Sounds of the forest, Claude, Honey, Big Boy, and the last Kakapo. There’s also a devotional to get your Lord’s Day started.
A review of Jen Wilkin’s Dust to Dust, which counters our culture’s anti-aging “false story” with a distinctly Christian, church-rooted vision of aging wisely.
A few Sundays ago we had picture day—the day we take updated photographs for the church directory. Aileen and I were overdue to have our photo taken and, for the first time in 26 years, it was just the two of us. Over the years, our directory photos climbed from two people to three, then…
Whether God grants our petitions or denies them, we can pray with confidence that his answer always flows from his goodness and is exactly what is best.
Works & Wonders has interesting and uplifting material on: Bluebirds, the rarest books on earth, a new song, berries berries everywhere, the amazing electric eel, and a devotional to start your Sunday.
As 2026 began, I decided to change up my devotions. I have followed roughly the same pattern for the last 15 or 20 years and thought it would be nice to freshen things up a little bit. It went poorly.
The world can feel unfair when we ponder all we might have been. But God sovereignly places each of us exactly where we can best serve and honor him.
Works & Wonders offers a collection of interesting and uplifting bits and pieces on: Viking Christians, wedding vows, magnified sand, Amazon knockoffs, a giant “chicken and egg” problem, and a brief devotional, of course.
It is the outcome every Christian parent fears. It is the outcome every Christian parent dreads. It is the outcome every Christian parent prays against from the moment their children are born. Yet for so many, it is the outcome God calls them to bear.
In many of the great European palaces, you can find entire walls that are covered with mosaics. Pieces of broken glass and pottery or fragments of shimmering shells have been arranged by the finest artisans to form images, portraits, and landscapes. As you stand at a distance, you might think you are gazing at illustrations…