Skip to content ↓

A La Carte (12/15)

A La Carte Collection cover image

Friday December 15, 2006

Music: Matthew Smith is now streaming his new album (the whole album!) at purevolume. It’s good album, so give it a listen. You can now buy it from his site or from iTunes.

Weird: Here is a good reason to avoid playing too many video games.

Even Weirder: Is your son gay? Maybe you fed him too much soy as a baby. If you are male and eating soy, “you’re suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your ‘female side,’ physically and mentally.”

Entertainment: Ask Yahoo tells us just how much television the average American watches in a lifetime. It is now the third-most common human activity after work and sleep. Imagine if we prayed as much as we watch TV.

Books: John Piper’s latest book, “When the Darkness Will Not Lift,” is now available from Crossway. The book deals with depression in Christians.


  • A La Carte Collection cover image

    A La Carte (February 20)

    A La Carte: Defining healthy masculinity / The women who disappeared / Dear older women / When leaders fall, are you next? / A Storm in the Desert / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Building Churches

    Building Churches Out of Other Churches

    What is your church really made of? Or perhaps better said, who is your church really made of? This is something we all do well to ponder from time to time, for there are good ways and bad ways, better ways and worse ways to fill a church.

  • A La Carte Collection cover image

    A La Carte (February 19)

    A La Carte: Don’t let your fears hold back your children / Denominations in an age of online over-exposure / Full-circle prayers / Secret things and revealed things / Building habits / John Mark Comer’s view of God / and more.

  • A La Carte Collection cover image

    A La Carte (February 18)

    A La Carte: Very cool birds / The way to combat anxiety / Do not hinder yourself / The sacred mundane / Thriving in women’s ministry leadership / Kindle deals / and more.

  • A La Carte Collection cover image

    A La Carte (February 17)

    A La Carte: Wisdom for online dating / Anything can be an idol / The great danger / Unconfessed sin / Sins we love to ignore / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Quality Time

    Quality Time

    People of all faiths pray. Some pray to gods, some to ancestors, some to nature, and some to the universe, but all speak out words, all utter desires, all hope to be heard. But Christians pray differently and Christians pray confidently, for we pray to a Father. We alone “have received the Spirit of adoption…