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Dec 22, 2006

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Friday December 22, 2006

Books: Discerning Reader now has an RSS Feed for the most recent reviews (thanks to Travis for doing the work).

Christmas: I asked my wife to consider making this for Christmas dinner but she refused.

Religion: Here is the history of religion in 90 seconds.

Q & A Amazon has a new service called Askville. It will apparently allow people to answer any question you may have.

Bible: The ESV blog has some interesting graphis allowing you to visualize different one-year Bible reading plans.

A La Carte (12/26)

Monday December 26, 2005 Boxing Day: Today is Boxing Day in Canada. This means that Canadians are lining up outside the big box electronic stores much the same way as Americans do the day after Thanksgiving, though the sales are usually not nearly as good. Do American stores have sales today? Religion of Peace: A…

Dec 26, 2005

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A La Carte (12/06)

Tuesday December 6, 2005 Narnia: “Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion,” says a writer for The Guardian. I take this as a good sign. If the producers have been true to the story it should be offensive! Christmas Megachurches across the US have cancelled their Christmas Day services (presumably due primarily to…

Dec 6, 2005

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A La Carte (12/27)

One of the things Aileen got me for Christmas was Baseball: The Tenth Inning, Ken Burns’ update to his classic documentary series on the game (it covers the last 2 decades). Though it’s necessarily selective in the issues it discusses (it focuses a ton of attention on Boston and New York, for example, but none…

Dec 27, 2010

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A La Carte (March 5)

Learning to be a “friendtor” / Evaluating The Bible Project / The photo they don’t want you to see / 10 reasons Evangelicals are cringe / Raising kids overseas / What does the Bible say about angels?

Mar 5

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What Did You Give Up When You Became a Christian?

To follow Christ is to give things up—habits, desires, even relationships. But you never walk away empty-handed. You release what you cannot keep to gain what you cannot lose.

Mar 4

Articles

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A La Carte (March 4)

The death of a saint / James Talarico’s gospel / You can always come back to church / Preparing sermons weeks in advance / Gospel greatness / Hell and the character of God / and more.

Mar 4

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A La Carte (March 3)

Edgelords won’t inherit the earth / Why smart people reject God / Repentance without compromise / Not enough faith / Is it time for complementarians to change their mind? / Kindle deals / and more.

Mar 3

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Those Already Present and Those Who Have Not Yet Arrived

For 2000 years, God’s people have been praying the same prayer: “Come, Lord Jesus.” It is a good prayer, and a biblical one. Yet for 2,000 years God has delayed in answering it. This delay can be perplexing and even frustrating.

Mar 2

Articles

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A La Carte (March 2)

Paul Tripp’s definition of parenting / Caring for divorced people in your church / Why Catholicism needs relics / Iran after the Ayatollah / The crescent moon / Kindle deals / and more.

Mar 2

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30 Christian Substacks I Read and Recommend in 2026

t is a blessing to have so many dedicated and talented Christian writers who are willing to share their work with us. Many of them choose to share it through Substack, a platform for email newsletters. I follow all kinds of Substacks and thought it might be helpful to create a roundup of some of…

Feb 25

Articles

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New and Notable Christian Books for February 2026

Not a single month goes by without Christian publishers providing us with great new resources. Thankfully, most of those new books end up in my mailbox. That allows me to sort through them and distil them down to a list like this one: A list of new and notables.

Feb 27

Articles

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Random Thoughts and Tips on Prayer

Not every thought makes a good article and sometimes an entire article can be distilled down to a single thought. For those reasons, I like to occasionally create what I have created here–a roundup of brief, random thoughts. In this case, these thoughts are on prayer.

Feb 23

Articles

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Those Already Present and Those Who Have Not Yet Arrived

For 2000 years, God’s people have been praying the same prayer: “Come, Lord Jesus.” It is a good prayer, and a biblical one. Yet for 2,000 years God has delayed in answering it. This delay can be perplexing and even frustrating.

Mar 2

Articles

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The Deepest Thirst of All

The God who created us formed us in such a way that we are not meant to exist apart from him. To live apart from God is the spiritual equivalent of trying to live without food and water. It will lead only to weakness, pain, and death.

Mar 1

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