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A La Carte (December 6)

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Errors of the Prosperity Gospel – Five errors of the prosperity gospel. “No matter what name is used, the essence of this new gospel is the same. Simply put, this egocentric ‘prosperity gospel’ teaches that God wants believers to be physically healthy, materially wealthy, and personally happy.”

How To Confess and Forgive – Thabiti Anyabwile reviews how to confess sin and how to extend forgiveness.

Generations – Here’s a gallery of multiple generations of families. It’s strangely fascinating.

The World Outside My Window – “This montage of time-lapse photography from the International Space Station is collected from many taken in Expeditions 29, 30 and 31.” You pretty much want to go full screen and HD.

12 Reasons to Pray Scripture – Andy Naselli shares twelve reasons you ought to pray Scripture.

Escaping the Cage Stage – R.C. Sproul: “My friend Michael Horton often comments on the phenomenon of ‘cage-stage Calvinism,’ that strange malady that seems to afflict so many people who have just seen the truth of the Reformed doctrines of grace. We’ve all known one of these ‘cage-stage Calvinists.’ Many of us were even one of them when we were first convinced of God’s sovereignty in salvation.”

Entertained

We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.

—John MacArthur

  • Thoughts

    Can Satan Put Thoughts Into Our Minds?

    Each of us is familiar with the experience of being tempted to sin. Sometimes these temptations arise from outside of us and sometimes they arise from within. Each of our three sworn enemies—the world, the flesh, and the devil—has the ability to tempt us to do what God forbids or fail to do what God…

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    A La Carte (December 3)

    A La Carte: Christ or Christian culture? / How to see your own blind spots / Kevin DeYoung’s questions for Christian Nationalists / Beware of desensitization / I want to be the princess / and more.

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    A La Carte (December 2)

    A La Carte: Lab rats for gender drug tests / How your church can serve the poor / Cross-cultural ministry / Cross-cultural marriage / The gift of nothing to do / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Self Loathing

    Don’t Think Lower Thoughts of Yourself than God Does

    I can be prone to self-loathing. Sometimes this takes the form of thinking about things I’ve done or recounting words I’ve said and detesting myself for them. Sometimes it takes the form of thinking about who I am and hating who God has made me to be, or thinking about the way God has gifted…

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    A La Carte (December 1)

    A La Carte: Should I stay or go? / Dust / Worshiping God at the ends of the earth / Why many reject penal substitutionary atonement / We have not arrived yet / Every human an image bearer / and more.

  • Sing

    Singing Is Not Filler Time

    While it may be rare to find a church that dedicates a substantial portion of the service to prayers and Scripture reading, it would be rare to find a church that fails to dedicate a substantial portion of the service to singing. Christians love to sing, and we have always regarded it as an essential…