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Keeping and Remembering Everything – People continue to grapple with what it means that today we have infinite digital storage available to us, so are keeping and remembering everything. Here’s an interesting article on it.

Indelible Grace – Indelible Grace has a great new site to highlight their music, and especially chords and lead sheets and so on.

The Feminine Mystique at 50 – This year marks the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. An article at The Gospel Coalition writes about its long-lasting effects.

Farewell to Mariano Rivera – Reading this I found myself thinking about how odd it is, and how satisfying (for some reason) that we grow so attached to our sports heroes.

Sermon Illustrations – Erik Raymond explains why he uses illustrations in his sermons.

Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

—Jonathan Edwards

  • Children Theology

    How To Teach Kids Theology

    Churches have few responsibilities more urgent and few honors more profound than teaching and training children. Every week these little ones show up with their parents and every week there are opportunities to reach them with truths that will change their hearts and transform their lives. It is little wonder, then, that there are multitudes…

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    A La Carte (January 24)

    A La Carte: Love your (actual) neighbor / Whiteness: an African translation / How Jesus helps my unbelief / Could you be a global nomad for the gospel? / God doesn’t work for me / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Books for Parents

    Books about the Challenges of Parenting in a Modern World

    Every generation of parents faces challenges as they raise their children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. While some challenges are the same from age to age, others are unique to a particular time and context. Perhaps the greatest challenge of our day relates to new notions of gender, sexuality, and identity. Today’s…

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    A La Carte (January 23)

    A La Carte: Pro-life challenges in the new administration / The ministry of small things / 10 things to think about / Pastoral burnout / Make yourself at home at almost any church / and more.

  • Beauty

    The Greatest Beauty I’ve Ever Seen

    One of the great privileges of my life has been the opportunity to travel far and wide. While most of my travel has been related to either speaking at conferences or filming documentaries, my hosts have often invited me to deviate from the straightest course to explore and take in the area’s natural beauty. It’s…