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A La Carte (June 23)

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It has been a bit of a slow week for Kindle deals, but there are at least a couple there worth checking out.

The History of Pews

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek history of the humble church pew. “Seating in churches didn’t really become a thing until parishioners got bored enough to wish they were sitting down—that is, about the time of the Protestant Reformation.”

We Need to Learn from Christians from Other Cultures

“When we talk about church in America with our Tanzanian friends, it’s their turn to be shocked. Your church services are only an hour and fifteen minutes long? And that’s the only service you attend all week? And you’ve never, ever done an all-night prayer vigil? Like, never? Are there even any Christians in America?”

The Silence of the Lambs

This is a devastating article about abuse within ABWE. “Over the past five years, in fact, it has become increasingly clear—even to some conservative Christians—that fundamentalist churches face a widespread epidemic of sexual abuse and institutional denial that could ultimately involve more victims than the pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church.”

Sharing the Gospel with Your Neighbors

This is obvious but needs to be said: “In our efforts to bring the gospel to the most distant and unreached corners of the globe we must not overlook the opportunity and responsibility that God has given us to make Christ known to the folks next door—our neighbours.”

Should I Always Call for Repentance and Faith?

Steve Lawson takes on a common preaching question.

Why The US Military Made GPS Free-To-Use (Video)

This video tells how GPS came to be, and why it’s available free.

The Cost of Leadership

We know that the qualifications for leadership in the church are right qualifications of character. But we need to hear this again and again because we are so prone to drift to other factors.

A Surgeon’s Secret

This is a neat story. “A surgeon’s secret: As she operated on babies’ birth defects, a doctor hid her own diagnosis.”

Flashback: Why Making Decisions Is So Hard

Why this fear? Why this agony? Why these sleepless nights? It is the uncertainty of it, I’m sure. It is the uncertainty of where our choices may lead.

The best part of all Christian work is that part which only God sees.

—Andrew Bonar

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    When The Path That I Fear Is the Way He Has Set

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    What’s a Trade War and How Did We End Up In One?

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