Matthew Henry once said that when we are out of the way of duty, we are in the way of temptation. Yet Jerry Bridges warns that the spiritual disciplines are privileges to be used, not duties to be performed. So are they duties or are they not?
A La Carte: Satan wants you alone this Sunday / The discipline of unlearning / Asking a pastor to step down / Holy humor / Intentional thankfulness / and more.
Free Stuff Fridays: Two Registrations for a Pastors Conference!
Whatever else young people know today, they know that science and God are opposed to one another. At least, they think they know this, because it has been taught to them in a hundred formal and informal settings, from the classroom to the television. They have been taught that they must choose between science and…
A La Carte: You don’t have a LGBTQ neighbor / Satan doesn’t use rubber bullets / John Piper on criticizing God / Tales that celebrate traditional families / The little things matter / and more.
While I am committed to reading and reviewing Christian books, I also enjoy reading a steady diet of books published for the general market. I suppose my interests lean toward history, but I do read other books as well. Here are a few of the titles I’ve enjoyed over the past couple of months.
A La Carte: When a crack becomes a chasm / That viral AI article / Artificial theologians / Christian witness in a divided world / Well our feeble frame he knows / Book and Kindle deals / and more.
We all know what it is to perform grief—to ensure that others are aware of our sadness by forcing them to see our sorrow. We may do this to gain their attention or compel their sympathy. We may do this because we make grief an idol and are only validated when others feel sorry for…
A La Carte: Life without a phone / “Yours Alone” (a new song) / Loving your wife through the rough patches / Godly mothers-in-law / All the answers / Kindle deals / and more.
Coram Deo Pastors Conference 2026. Our aim remains the same: we want to strengthen pastors and church leaders (and their wives, if that would benefit some couples).
A La Carte: John Piper on aging with joy / Lessons on money / Who we are when we disagree / Don’t be a discouraging Christian / Gender surgeries for minors / Church-loving children / Kindle deals / and more.
I am certain you have had a time when the Lord has brought you to a sudden, unexpected point of repentance or resolution. Perhaps you’ve been fostering a sin, and while you may have known it was sin, you haven’t been willing to deal with it—to put it to death and come alive to righteousness.…
A La Carte: The challenge of Greek Orthodoxy / Overcoming the spouse bottleneck / A movement, not a business / Let it snow / Same-sex attraction / Heaven on earth / Kindle deals / and more.
We do not often speak of duty today, but Christians traditionally spoke of it often. In fact, Christians understood the means of grace as duties, responsibilities of every believer toward God. And while these duties are the means through which God provides us with his grace, they are also the means through which God guards…
A La Carte: Harder is not always holier / Is Claude my friend? / Christians and Nietzsche / Survivalist to convictional leadership / Wild, unorganized, and totally worth it / The songs I once found dreary / and more.
There is no path through this life that does not involve at least some measure of grief. This world is so broken that at different times and in different ways, grief affects us all. Some grief flows from what we loved and lost but other grief flows from what has never been and may never…
A La Carte: The need for father-scholars / Teach your kids what to think / The fading of the flower / Playing God with children / Softly break a bone / Kindle deals / and more.
A La Carte: Life is a vapor / Jelly Roll and Billie Eilish / Did God need to kill his Son? / Should we forgive apart from repentance? / His Mercy Is More / Worship / and more.
Not too long ago, there was a trend in which people would see how close they could come to being hit by a train without actually being hit by a train. That’s about as stupid a game as I can imagine. Play stupid games, win stupid games, as the kids say. But researching sin when…
A La Carte: Jesus loves the self-righteous sinner / How churches began using grape juice / Stop praying “in your name” / We aren’t very good at rest / The greatest theological statement ever written / and more.
A La Carte: Scheduling hospitality / False teachers / Dating Christian women / Stoking the fire / Origins of the evil one / Love and accept / Kindle deals / and more.
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