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Sermon Jams: Volume 5
1031 Sermon Jams has released a new volume of their sermon jams. You are free to download, burn and distribute the files. (HT: DD)


Writers’ Rooms
Here is a neat photo essay (with an audio track by the photographer) sharing photographs of various writers’ rooms. They range from the stark to the cluttered and everything in between.


Free Audio Books from Jim Elliff
Audio versions of Jim Elliff’s books Pursuing God and Wasted Faith are available for free download at his web site.


Solving Sudoku Mathematically
I’m glad to hear that someone has found a way of solving Sudoku. Now maybe people can stop cluttering magazines with it…


How Publishing Shapes Us
Andy Le Peau has a short but good article on how publishing shapes us. “What does publishing make possible and impossible? Famously, it made the Reformation possible–or at least possible to spread more quickly and widely. It makes the dissemination of information and opinion to great swaths of the population possible. This may be obvious. What is perhaps less obvious is what publishing makes impossible or very difficult.”


Connecting Church and Home
“This weekend, Brentwood Baptist Church hosted a conference on family ministry titled Connecting Church and Home. The speakers were mainly connected with Southern Baptist churches but their purpose will be shared by all Christians.” Though I haven’t read through (or listened to) these talks yet, they come highly recommended.


  • Understanding Trauma

    Understanding Trauma

    I don’t remember encountering the world “trauma” very often in my younger years, yet recently I seem to hear it all the time. What was once deemed a rare experience or one rarely talked about, has become a common experience and one talked about both openly and often. Where perhaps it was once defined so…

  • A La Carte Friday 2

    A La Carte (March 14)

    A La Carte: When puppies replace people / Learning to disagree / Persevere in prayer / Demons and spiritual warfare / LARPing your job / Secret Christianity / Graphic novel on sale / and more.

  • A La Carte Thursday 1

    A La Carte (March 13)

    A La Carte: Somebody just made up a new religion / Signs of revival on campus / Walking towards destruction / Get more out of your reading / True for our souls / and more.

  • The Path

    When The Path That I Fear Is the Way He Has Set

    There are some lyrics we all especially treasure, certain lines that settle in especially near to our hearts. Personally, I often find myself pondering the words that begin CityAlight’s “In the Valley (Bless the Lord).” “When the path that I feared / Is the way He has set / And I long to give in…

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    A La Carte (March 12)

    A La Carte: Ambidextrous apologists / When grief doesn’t include tears / Mistakes when learning to pray / When it’s good to argue / Sloth and diligence / Kindle deals / and more.

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    A La Carte (March 11)

    A La Carte: What we gained and lost by live-streaming / The spouse of an unbeliever / To the exhausted / Draw near to God through writing / Shrinking in shame / No one seeks God / and more.