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A La Carte (July 7)

Today’s Kindle deals include a handful of deals on Christian books.

Want to get caught up in your church history? Ligonier will send you Robert Godfrey’s massive video series for a donation of any amount.

Spiritual Growth Comes From Community

Solid advice: “My encouragement to young moms, or busy students, or stressed businessmen and women is this: put yourself in a role that will require you to show up at your local church week after week.”

4 Principles for the Exercise of Christian Liberty

Sinclair Ferguson offers instruct in an important area.

How To Spot a Misleading Graph (Video)

We are easily manipulated.

Rutherford Monument Funding

Here’s an appeal to save a monument to Samuel Rutherford before it collapses. Maybe someone out there is interested in making a donation.

What Is the Purpose of Fasting? (Video)

Donald Whitney provides an excellent answer.

Dashing Little Ones Against the Rock

Paul Carter interacts with a difficult verse: “Sooner or later every honest Bible reader finds herself asking some version of that question. These verses are – beyond a shadow of a doubt – among the very hardest verses of the Bible to accept as Christian Scripture.”

Relationships in Heaven

Randy Alcorn: “One of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked about Heaven over the years is about the nature of marriage there. As I share in my book Heaven, there will be one marriage in Heaven, not many. That marriage will be what earthly marriage symbolized and pointed to, the marriage of Christ to His bride. So we will all be married—but to Christ.”

Flashback: Why I Am Not Continuationist

Here I explain why I am not continuationist or, if you prefer, charismatic.

I live in the spirit of prayer; I pray as I walk, when I lie down and when I rise, and the answers are always coming.

—George Muller

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    Must You Read at Least One Spurgeon Biography?

    I am not aware of a verse in the Bible that says every Christian must read at least one biography of Charles Spurgeon. Or every Calvinist, at least. But I also wouldn’t be completely shocked if it’s there somewhere and I’ve just missed it. And that’s because his life and ministry were powerfully unique in…

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    A La Carte (January 21)

    A La Carte: What “love your enemies” does not mean / John Piper on reading providence / Talking to your Roman Catholic friends / What happens at prayer meeting? / Against executive pastors / Kindle deals / and more.

  • The Christian Standard Commentary: A Modern Commentary Steeped in Ancient Tradition

    The Christian Standard Commentary will encourage and equip God’s people to understand the text and live according to Scripture for Christ’s glory. The unique ancient-modern approach to the biblical text found in the CSC is a valuable resource for building up Christ’s church while encouraging God’s people to fulfill the Great Commission. As a commentary…

  • Finnegan

    Why I Haven’t Written A Whole Lot about My Grandson

    It has been two months since little Finnegan was born—two months since I became a grandfather for the first time. It only just occurred to me that I have said very little about this new reality, this new stage of life, this new member of our family.

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    A La Carte (January 20)

    A La Carte: Is it good that you exist? / Should we trust churches? / In defense of childhood / Take your anxiety to church / How do I leave my abortion in the past? / Kindle deals / and more.

  • Prayer Recipe

    Prayer Is Not Like a Good Recipe

    Prayer is not like a good recipe: simply follow a set of mechanical directions and everything turns out right in the end. So what is it then? And how can we do it well?