Works & Wonders (Oct 4)
Works & Wonders: Eclipse Chasing, Gilded Mansions, Other Windows, The Risen Conqueror, Astronomy Photography, Ask and Expect
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Liturgies to Help Your Church Worship (Take Them for Your Own Use!)
A year’s worth of complete worship liturgies—calls to worship, confessions, benedictions, and full services. They are free to use or adapt, with no attribution needed.
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Why My Church Does Not Sing Songs by Bethel, Elevation, and Hillsong
A few years ago, I proposed to my fellow elders at Grace Fellowship Church that we stop singing songs by Hillsong. After some clarifying discussion, we agreed that we would not. The same reasoning applies to Elevation and Bethel. Here’s an explanation.
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Works & Wonders (September 27)
Works & Wonders: Small World, Voices, BingeBrowse, The Bayeux Tapestry Story, One Bedroom Apartment, Earth Music Theater, and a Sunday Devotional
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Narnia Among the Deathworks
Meryl Streep voices a Bowie-inspired and rainbow-striped Aslan. Is Greta Gerwig’s Narnia a tribute to C.S. Lewis, or a deathwork that profanes what he made?
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A Pair of Important Lessons from the Demise of G3
G3 Ministries is no longer in operation. Here are two lessons I have drawn from its demise: a founder’s weaknesses go deep, and right action is not always sufficient action.
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Works & Wonders (September 20)
Works & Wonders: New music, fall migration, the perfect photo, Abide with Me at a royal funeral, underground aqueducts.
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Should You Read Books by Fallen Pastors?
I recently saw a photo that alarmed me. Several men were participating in a panel discussion at a major conference, and I realized that almost all of them had either died or been disqualified from leadership—two very different ways for a ministry to come to an end.
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Why Your Church Needs an Abuse Prevention Policy
Every church needs an abuse prevention policy. Here’s what a good one accomplishes, who should oversee it, and some helpful resources for drafting your own.
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Works & Wonders (September 13)
Works & Wonders: Wonderful Paradoxes, Stone Wall Trees, Spiral Embryos, Saved by Grace, Play the 101, Just as He Said.
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How Scammers Are Targeting Christian Authors
Scammers are using AI to target Christian authors. They use fake marketing, offers of translation, and fabricated book clubs. Here’s how to recognize the scams and how to avoid being fooled by them.
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Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie”
When Netflix announced they would debut a Little House on the Prairie series, I received the news with a sense of dread. While I knew it could be like All Creatures Great and Small and remain relatively faithful to the spirit of much-loved books, it could also be like Rings of Power and be anything…
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Works & Wonders (September 6)
Works & Wonders: Beautiful creation / Photography awards / Blackwing pencils / World’s narrowest islands / Be a stowaway / Vanished Vikings.
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What a Church Can Do Before a Pastor Falls
Christian, your pastor may someday fall. I certainly hope that’s never the case, and I hope he, like the great majority of his peers, remains qualified to the very end of his time in ministry. But even though it may be unlikely that his ministry collapses under the weight of scandal, immorality, or disqualification, it…
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Parents, Do You Protect Your Children’s Dignity When You Discipline Them?
I often think about the time my family visited a church and sat close to a child who was behaving quite badly. Because he was only a couple of rows ahead of us, we could hardly fail to notice that he was sitting neither still nor quiet.
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Works & Wonders (August 30)
Works & Wonders: Stunning Animals, Beautiful Bibles, Hidden Treasure, Mathematical Rivers, and Companies that Are Worse on Purpose
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New and Notable Christian Books for August 2026
August is often a fairly quiet month for new book releases, sitting as it does between the busy spring and fall seasons. However, there were lots of excellent books published this month, and I’m glad to share some of them with you.
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It’s Not Too Late to Make This a Great Year of Bible Reading
There is something that can happen when one year begins to ebb and another lies just over the horizon. It is something that can happen in those areas where our disciplines have grown lax and our habits have begun to wane.
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Why Fallen Pastors So Rarely Walk Away
Have you ever wondered why pastors who have been disqualified from ministry so rarely concede to the reality of their disqualification and just move on? Have you ever wondered why they so often disappear for a year or so and then turn up at another church or in a different denomination?
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Works & Wonders (August 23)
Insects don’t live in the ocean / Underground mail / The return of the monarch / The most valuable items / Singing through the hymnal / Perfect wisdom and perfect purposes