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A La Carte (February 26)

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Good morning. Grace and peace to you.

Today’s Kindle deals include a few solid choices from Crossway. Also be sure to check some of the books that I listed over the weekend.

(Yesterday on the blog: We All Have To Do With God)

How Not to Apply the Bible

Kenneth Berding provides a useful example of how not to apply the Bible. And, of course, he tells us how we should apply it as well.

30 People in the New Testament Confirmed

This is just a simple roundup of 30 people mentioned in the New Testament who have been confirmed by the historical record.

Taylor Swift and Christianity

I do not understand the Taylor Swift phenomenon! David Robertson offers some thoughts on it in relation to Swift’s tour arriving in Australia. “In the rejection of God, a culture tends to lose its mind and look for other saviours. If you doubt that, then just consider that in the past week, I have read about Taylor saving the Australian economy through Taylornomics, women in China and the planet – as well as getting Biden re-elected!”

But I Did Everything Right

Barbara explains one way in which we can all subtly live as if the prosperity gospel is true. “Most of us realize the ‘prosperity gospel’ is wrong—the belief that if you obey God, especially in giving big offerings to their evangelists, you’ll be blessed with health, wealth, and prosperity. But we unwittingly buy into a version of the same thought.”

10 Reasons the Old Testament Matters to Christians

Jason DeRouchie offers 10 reasons that the Old Testament matters to Christians. “To understand the Old Testament fully, we must start reading it as believers in the resurrected Jesus, with God having awakened our spiritual senses to perceive and hear rightly.”

Cliff Notes on Cars

Charlie Carter considers life and death, new cars and old cars, and a few other matters here.

Flashback: Only the Christian Faith Begins At the Top

Just as a tower is straight only to the degree to which it matches the builder’s perfect line, our lives are right only to the degree to which they match God’s perfect law. 

I have to tell you that heaven, earth and hell are after your immortal spirit. Earth to cheat it. Hell to destroy it. Heaven to redeem it.

—De Witt Talmage

  • The Tallest Trees

    The Winds Blow Hardest Against the Tallest Trees

    Through the weekend had many questions about Christian leaders who fall. And I expressed that just as the winds blow hardest against the tallest trees, so temptations may press hardest against the leaders who rise the highest. Just as floods press against shallow roots, so seductive desires rise up against those whose fall would bring…

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    A La Carte (April 21)

    A La Carte: Toxic servant leadership / Taking our stress to the Lord / The problem with habits / Is it wrong for Christians to choose cremation? / Why does your church meet in a house? / Big book and Kindle deals / and more.

  • Expectations

    Why We Ask So Little of God

    Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little, and are content with little. Though the Bible calls us to pray and though it promises that “the prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working,” we can still have very modest expectations of what God will accomplish through…

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    Weekend A La Carte (April 19)

    A La Carte: Why man needs God / Why nails matter / Kids’ picture books / MLK’s famous letter changed a DC church / How to mentor / A tearless eternity / and more.

  • Free Stuff Fridays (TGBC)

    This weeks Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by The Good Book Company. They are giving away a bundle of their best-selling Good Book Guides that are designed to guide your head and your heart through God’s word. Each Good Book Guide includes a concise leader’s guide in the back.  The Bundle includes: Giveaway Rules: You…

  • A Light on the Hill

    A Light on the Hill

    In early 2020, CHBC, along with almost every other church in the world, was forced to contend with the opening days of the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time Caleb Morell was working as Pastor Mark Dever’s personal assistant. Dever tasked him with finding out how the church had responded to the Spanish flu epidemic a…