Good morning from Portugal, the final stop in this Worship Round the World journey. I am here for just a few days before heading home at last. (Thankfully, Aileen has been able to join me.) There is quite an extensive list of Kindle deals today. (Yesterday on the blog: When You Long to Know the “Why” Behind Your Sorrow) What Smaller Churches Get Wrong When They Look at Bigger Churches This is good—a list of things smaller churches can get wrong as they look at larger churches. Ponytails, Buns, & The Blessing of Small Mercies “Grief finds its way into even the smallest cracks. Having suffered through bangs and large rim glasses of the 90s, my late wife longed to protect our girls from the world of bowl haircuts. Always possessing an eye for artistic design, April delighted in doing the girls up like Elsa or Belle and in sending them off to school with some new braid that she had picked up from a You Tube tutorial. One needed to only look at my girls’ hair to know that they had a mom that loved them.” Calvin’s Take on Venerating Relics Many Protestants are surprised to learn that many Roman Catholics continue to venerate relics. Leonardo De Chirico explains here and tells what Calvin thought of the practice (though I expect you can guess). What is Natural Law? You have probably heard the terms “natural law” and “natural theology?” What are they all about? This article explains. Is God More Wrathful in the Old … Continue reading A La Carte (September 26)