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A La Carte (December 5)

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Eli to Everest! – Be sure to watch this one! “In March of 2013, Eli Reimer and a Team of 8 people spent 15 days on a Himalayan trail to Mount Everest Base Camp and back. Eli made it and in the process became the first American with Down Syndrome to do so. Here is the story and purpose behind his epic adventure.”

3 Critical Truths on Money – J.D. Greear: “In Zacchaeus, we see a stingy, fiscally corrupt man become one of the most generous people in the entire Bible. Zacchaeus teaches us three critical truths about our money…”

The Word Works, Even When It Doesn’t – This is an important article. “Over the past year of ministry I’ve come to recognize a troubling tendency in myself. It’s a tendency toward what you might call vicarious faith. My confidence in the power of God’s Word—of its truth, its beauty, its relevance—is far too closely tied to the visible faith of those I serve as they respond to the Word.”

Finals Week, First Things and Unfavorable Times – This is a reminder we all need, though students will especially benefit from it.

Adultery Prevention – This article nicely complements what I wrote yesterday. Rebecca VanDoodewaard writes from a woman’s perspective on how to prevent adultery in marriage.

Spurgeon

There was never a sinner half as big as Christ is as a Savior.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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    I think we have all felt the temptation to modify the gospel, to preach a gospel that is inaccurate or incomplete. I think we have all felt the desire to avoid the reproach that may come upon us when we preach the whole gospel and true gospel—the gospel that is so very bad before it…

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  • A Beautiful 40-day Illustrated Devotional of Classic Literature

    This week the blog is sponsored by P&R Publishing. In the newest release by Leland Ryken, A Treasury of Nature, he joins great works of poetry, hymnody, prose, and art with accessible literary analysis. As Ryken says in the Introduction to his book: “The overall goal of this anthology is to enable nature to be…

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    Four Years After Our Hardest Day

    Yesterday marked four years since Nick went to heaven. I find myself calling him “Nicky” more often now—a name I hadn’t used for him since he was a child. I wonder if it reflects that in some ways he is becoming dearer to my heart and younger to my mind. After all, I keep aging…