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A La Carte (12/5)

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Branch Out! – Aaron Armstrong gives you 3 good reasons to vary your reading diet in 2012.

Historical Inaccuracies – This article points out “5 Inaccurate ‘Historical’ Stories That Ended Up In History Books.”

Francis Schaeffer and Gospel-Centered – Trevin Wax has done a good job here of suggesting what Francis Schaeffer might say to the gospel-centered movement within today’s church.

Loving the 1% – Here is an interesting perspective on the “1%.” Despite a massive missionary movement that has penetrated every nation on earth, the upper class remains enormously unreached, even in countries that now boast large evangelical populations.

Free eBooks – Monergism has a list of 32 free ebooks. They are there for the taking. Be sure to right-click on them and save them to your computer (don’t use the left-click).

Finishing Well – This is love. (HT)

I preach as though Christ was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today and was coming back tomorrow.

—Martin Luther

  • Moving House and Moving Church

    Would It Be Better to Take a Pay Cut Than a Church Cut?

    There are times when circumstances dictate that we move—that we move from one town to another, one province or state to another, or even one country or continent to another. There are other times when it is desire more than circumstance that causes us to uproot ourselves from one location and re-root ourselves in another.

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    A La Carte (October 23)

    A La Carte: How to write a meaningful card / God brings us bad to give us best / New notebook, same mission / There but for the grace of God go I / The trouble with competitiveness / and more.

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    A La Carte (October 22)

    A La Carte: John Piper on future judgment / Is every sin the same in God’s eyes? / The long defeat of history / Common marketplace leadership sayings / Infertility and grief / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Bad Seed

    Are You Scattering Bad Seed?

    It was an unconscionable crime—grossly immoral and terribly destructive. In the middle of the night, he snuck onto the property of one of his enemies and ruined his crop. Knowing that this man had recently sowed good seed throughout his fields, he stealthily followed behind and sowed seeds he knew would spring up into weeds,…

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    A La Carte (October 21)

    A La Carte: A good death? / Every tree tells stories / Managing a household well / The formation of writers / Why young women are leaving the church / Francis Schaeffer / and more.

  • Meditation

    Just as Heat Sets the Soft Clay

    Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God. Thus, to meditate in this way is to call to mind the great truths God reveals about himself—his works and…