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A La Carte: A few thoughts about personal resolutions / Pope Francis, LGBTQ, and semi-pelagianism / How your year turned out / Plan to grow / What were Mary and Joseph doing after Jesus was born? / and more.

A La Carte: Should Christians drink alcohol? / Is everything going wrong in the world? / leading your family out of the post-holiday blues / A wasp without a stinger / How to cultivate and develop student leaders / and more.

A La Carte: Should pastors encourage secular therapy? / Top 10 YouTubes of 2023 / We didn’t expect you to come this way / Sinclair Ferguson on devotional habits and resources / Prayers for when Bible reading is hard / and more.

A La Carte: A theology of getting fired for your faith / Free eBook / Reading Scripture rightly / What’s the real cost of our giving? / Cultivating honesty / What’s the point of waiting? / and more.

Christmas A La Carte: Puppy points and God’s free gifts / Peace on earth: Middle East? / Dreaming of a white Christmas, or heaven / When every day is Christmas no day will be / The larger longing / Advent and expectations / and more.

Weekend A La Carte: Meet the Messiah who came to serve / What do we actually know about the three wise men? / What now for those evangelicals from fled to Rome? / The United Methodist reckoning / Was Spurgeon really anti-Christmas? / In the fog, there are tidings of comfort and joy / and…

A La Carte: When a pastor falls / The rewards of faithful suffering / A peanut butter and jelly Christmas Eve / True rest / Who is this one lying in the manger? / Why such a lowly birth? / and more.

Thursday A La Carte: Where is the source of your joy this Christmas? / Good new of great joy that will malform all the people / The icing on the cake of Pope Francis / When did multiple services begin? / Christmas in a foreign land / Fading glory and permanent things / and more.

A La Carte: Fight the Christmas letdown / Finding romance in your marriage / Practicing faith in a post-faith world / You are not your accomplishments / Proficient pulpit rhetoric / Christmas songs / Book sale / and more.

Tuesday A La Carte: God with us on the escalator / Not neurotypical: a love story / Decapitating the serpent / I am not perfect, but I will not lie about God / What are angels and how should Christians think about them? / embarrassed of my embarrassment / and more.

A La Carte: This is a gift you can give / On the domestication of animals / Fiscal hilarity / Best Christian folk and worship of 2023 / Blessed among all women / Uncomfortable Christmases and witnessing to family during the holidays / Kindle deals and free book / and more.

December 15 A La Carte: Tasting heaven now / Called to ministry? / Bridging your real-life and virtual identity / Still talking about it / The second advent / Six reasons for the virgin birth / and more.

Thursday A La Carte: My grandfather died with dignity / There is no inconvenience too great for godliness / Christmas should humble us / Why was a man killed for touching the Ark of the Covenant? / Nobody can know the trouble you’ve seen / a year in the Greek NT / Commentaries on sale…

Today’s A La Carte: Top 10 theology stories of 2023 / Just a stay-at-home mom / Think you know the Christmas story? / Pastoral oversight and the music ministry of the church / The greatest joy is Jesus / The weary world rejoices / Kindle deals and book sale / and more.

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In today’s A La Carte: When grief like sea billows roll through your holidays / looking upwards amidst chronic illness / 8 practical ways to flee from temptation in the moment / strong, weak, and godly / loving your adult children and grandchildren / it’s more awkward to reject the virgin birth / Kindle deals…

In today’s A La Carte: The antipsalms we sing / God’s writing a story of redemption in your life / seeing what you have as something that doesn’t belong to you / 7 tips for loving “those” people in your church / a lavish love / light overcomes darkness / and more.

A La Carte: Behind a tragic, Instagram-perfect life / Ayaan Hirsi Ali and our Constantian moment / don’t think about pink elephants / advice for someone about to enter seminary / a brief history of the Huguenots / blessed be the name of the Lord / Kindle deals / and more.