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A La Carte (June 5)

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The Pew and the Pulpit – H.B. Charles Jr. has some good thoughts about the pew helping the pulpit.

The Gift of Rest – Here’s a sweet short film you’ll want to watch (get some tissues first).

Questions to Ask Before Joining a Church – “You move to a new area. You get find your new residence and job. You get the kids enrolled in school. Where you settle in a local church often becomes a longer, more drawn-out task. After checking out all the churches you desire to visit, here are four questions to ask yourself as you narrow the search to make a decision.”

Give Them Bread – Jared Wilson offers some sound counsel.

Four Modern Versions That Are Ruining the Bible – There’s food for thought in this article.

The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Means – I don’t know about you, but I need to hear things like this again and again–to reaffirm the joy of the ordinary.

Ferguson

Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian.

—Sinclair Ferguson

  • Inventory

    The Spiritual Gift Inventory I Believe In

    In many churches, it is standard practice to have Christians take some kind of a spiritual gift inventory. Through a series of questions that probe an individual’s interests, passions, and successes, these tests claim to help people discover the ways the Holy Spirit has gifted them to better love and serve his people.

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  • A La Carte Thursday 1

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    A La Carte: Is Stoicism a friend of Christianity? / 11 Theses on Instagram and the modern woman / The harvest is plentiful but the workers won’t stay / The unpardonable sin / Maybe you should talk to strangers / and more.

  • Marriage Happy Marriage Holy

    Marriage Happy, Marriage Holy

    God’s purpose in marriage is not to make us happy but to make us holy. Or so we have all been told. The truth is more complicated, of course, and I’m quite certain God means for marriage to cover both. The old Anglican liturgy says marriage “was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort,…

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    A La Carte (November 13)

    A La Carte: Should Christians reject slavery and affirm same-sex marriage? / Can women be deacons? / You can’t life-hack your way to holiness / When your pastor thinks he’s brother molehill / When the seeing are blind / and more.