A La Carte (March 7)
A La Carte: No need to fear, ever / Do you want my opinion? / Visible grace in disagreements / Whataboutery / Is church discipline mean / Biblical typology / and more.
A La Carte: No need to fear, ever / Do you want my opinion? / Visible grace in disagreements / Whataboutery / Is church discipline mean / Biblical typology / and more.
A La Carte: John Piper on profanity, crude joking, etc / Why the exclusivity of the gospel causes offense / An elder is a pastor is an overseer / be the church member you want your church to have / Decisive moments / and more.
It was on this day 24 years ago that I became a dad. I suppose I had already been a dad for the past nine months and 10 days—a full-term of pregnancy plus a few extra days of waiting. But on March 5, 2000, I finally got to meet my firstborn, my boy, my sweet…
A La Carte: My daughter plays competitive club volleyball / Temptations common to marriage / Does the doctrine of limited atonement undermine evangelism? / Sycophants and liars / Your ministry shouldn’t bother starting a YouTube or TikTok / and more.
This week the blog is sponsored by New Covenant OPC and is written by Michael Grasso, Pastor of New Covenant OPC. Our church, New Covenant OPC, recently started a building campaign to build a new place to worship because we have outgrown our current facilities. I have been told several times about the difficulties of…
A couple of years ago I listened to an interview with a critic of Christianity. He was a person who claimed to love Christ, yet who seemed to have little use for Christ’s church and little good to say about Christ’s people. There was one critique that especially stood out to me
A La Carte: Christians should long for giftedness / Talking about race in 2024 / No creed but the Bible / 7 blessings older saints offer the church / Is it okay for Christians to grieve? / Kindle and book deals / and more.
Any time we consider the spiritual disciplines, or means of grace, it is crucial that we remember not only the great purpose of these habits but also the great blessing they represent. We were made to know God and to be known by God. We were made in the image of God to have a…
A La Carte: The only way out of our desperate hypocrisy / Are Evangelicals too hard on men? / 9 healthy ways to respond to criticism / Is God disappointed with me? / 4 snapshots of dispensationalism today / Logos and Kindle deals / and more.
This weeks giveaway is sponsored by Help The Persecuted. Help The Persecuted rescues, restores, and rebuilds the lives of persecuted believers in the Islamic World through spiritual support and tangible help. Every week, they send out an email with specific, real-time prayer requests of persecuted believers to their global Prayer Network. You can join the…
A La Carte: Rumblings of revival among Gen Z / Addition by subtraction / Seeing red / Burying the talents of the Great Rewarder / Inviting evaluation of your preaching / Book and Kindle deals / and more.