A La Carte (11/21)

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Wednesday November 21, 2007

10 Free Audio Books
As a Thanksgiving special, Christian Audio is offering ten free audio books. Several of them are definitely worth downloading.

Marriage Testimony
Lisa (of 4Ever4Given fame) and her husband Jon have posted a video of their testimony to God’s faithfulness in their once-troubled marriage. God has been good to them!

iPhone on the Plane
PlaneBuzz blog shares a humorous anecdote about a person on a plane trying to outsmart the pilot with his iPhone. The pilot wasn’t impressed.

Stem Cells Without Embryos
Scientists have “created the equivalent of embryonic stem cells from ordinary skin cells, a breakthrough that could someday produce new treatments for disease without the explosive moral questions of embyro cloning.”

Weekend A La Carte (June 18)

Christian Audio Christian Audio is holding their twice-yearly sale. This is a great time to try out their service. During this sale even brand new books are heavily discounted. Why Sex Isn’t the Best Thing Ever Lore Ferguson: “One of the best blessings to me in my singleness were friends who did not make marriage…

Jun 18, 2016

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A La Carte (4/24)

The Bride Was Beautiful“Katie Kirkpatrick, 21, held off cancer to celebrate the happiest day of her life. Katie had chased cancer, once only to have it return-to clog her lungs and grab hold of her heart. Breathing was difficult now, she had to use oxygen. The pain in her back was so intense it broke…

Apr 24, 2009

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A La Carte (11/9)

Friday November 9, 2007 Jim Elliff on Home ChurchesJim Elliff writes about some of the benefits of a home church model. Weather Channel’s FounderThe founder of the Weather Channel says that global warming is the biggest scam in history. “In time, a decade or two, the outrageous scam will be obvious. As the temperature rises,…

Nov 9, 2007

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Do You Have to Choose Between Science and God?

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…

Feb 13

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A La Carte (February 13)

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.

Feb 13

A La Carte

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12 General Market Books I Have Enjoyed Recently

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.

Feb 12

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A La Carte (February 12)

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.

Feb 12

A La Carte

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Performative Grief

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…

Feb 11

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A La Carte (February 11)

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.

Feb 11

A La Carte

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Lots of Single Christians but Few Weddings

I find it one of the great mysteries of the modern church. It does not exist in every context and every congregation, but as I’ve traveled and inquired, I’ve become convinced it exists in a great many of them. Here is the mystery: A lot of churches have many single men and many single women…

Feb 5, 2025

Articles

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Invisible Grief

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…

Feb 6

Book Reviews

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12 General Market Books I Have Enjoyed Recently

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.

Feb 12

Articles

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What To Do While You Wait To Die

A friend of mine recently went to be with the Lord after enduring a long battle with leukemia. In his final weeks, as his strength slowly faded away, he told his family that he wished he could write a book titled What To Do While You Wait To Die. There would be no time to…

Feb 4, 2024

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The Breakthrough Prayer

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.…

Feb 9

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