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A La Carte (January 12)

22 Ideas to Help Your Children Study And Love the Bible

“For the last few years, I’ve been gathering the ideas we’ve found helpful for nurturing our children’s interest and skill in reading the Bible. … perhaps some of our approaches may encourage you to try some new ideas with your own family.”

All the Money in the World

Here’s a chart showing all the money in the world. Should we be nervous about how much of it is derivatives?

The Most Important Thing

Ray Ortlund tells the most important thing his dad taught him.

Should Evangelicals Hijack Black Lives Matter?

This is a long but important look at the #BlackLivesMatter movement and the possibility of Evangelical support for it.

Let Wheaton and other Christian colleges be Christian

Yes, exactly! “Is it not time that journalists just accepted the fact that Wheaton College is an evangelical Protestant covenant community of higher education and stopped being ‘shocked, shocked’ every time a case arises regarding what the standards of faithfulness are or ought to be in this community?”

This Day in 1871. 145 years ago today, Henry Alford died. Alford was an Anglican priest, hymnwriter, and poet. * He also had a fantastic beard.

Does the Bible Endorse Slavery?

“Have you ever faced a skeptic—maybe a family member or a friend at work—who threw slavery at you as evidence that the Bible can’t be trusted?” Denny Burk shows why this is false reasoning.

17 Lessons I Learned From Christian Books In 2015

I love this as a way to summarize a year’s worth of reading.

Exhale 4k

This is yet another stunning timelapse video.

Inside GM’s Deadly Ignition Switch Scandal

If you’re in the mood for some longform reading, you may find this one interesting.

Leake

God’s promises fully match our best, highest, and innermost desires.

—Mike Leake

  • New and Notable Christian Books for January 2025

    As you know, I like to do my best to sort through the new Christian books that are released each month to see what stands out as being not only new, but also particularly notable. I received quite a number of books in January and narrowed the list down to the ones below. I have…

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    A La Carte (January 30)

    A La Carte: Small injustices / Is it necessary to be a church member? / How to make friends at college / My letter about a transgender teacher / Prayerless theologians / Deepening fellowship / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Throw Out the Buoys

    Throw Out the Buoys!

    When I was young, my family owned a cottage on a lake. From a young age, I loved to head out in our little motorboat so I could explore that lake and the others that were connected to it. I could easily make a day out of slipping into little inlets to see where they…

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    A La Carte (January 29)

    A La Carte: Your phone habits / A guide for single women / JFK, conspiracy theories, and the Deep State / So what if you’re bored? / God’s a writer / Hard relationships / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Happy Lies

    Happy Lies

    I’m quite certain you have heard of the New Age movement. Though its popularity seems to have crested and begun to wane some time ago, it continues to wield a good bit of influence. But I wonder if you’ve heard of another similarly-named but quite different movement called New Thought.

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    A La Carte (January 28)

    A La Carte: Parenting is hard / The wildness of orthodoxy / Rubbing shoulders throughout eternity / Glorifying ourselves / The middle of somewhere / Is Roman Catholic baptism valid? / Excellent Kindle deals / and more.