A La Carte (September 25)
A La Carte: Slow and costly in a world of fast and cheap / Train up a child / How healthy is your marriage? / Getting spiritually back on track / Don’t only punch right / and more.
Explore Romans 3:23
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A La Carte (May 17)
Today’s Kindle deals include rather slim pickings, but there are still a couple of new ones. Six Things to Know About God’s Wrath “This theme of the wrath (or anger) of God toward sin and sinners is clearly and widely taught in the Bible. This truth is so interwoven with the hope of our peace…
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If Only I Had Been Saved By Merit!
One of the hardest tasks for every Christian is to deeply believe and forever remember that we’ve been saved by grace. This is a lifelong challenge because our natural tendency is always to veer back to merit, to assume that we’ve been saved by something we are, something we’ve got, or something we’ve accomplished. Grace—unmerited…
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God Hates Wicked People
Over the past few weeks I have been exploring what God hates. I have done this by looking to the Bible to search for those things God flat-out says he hates or things that he describes as “despicable” or “abominable.” We have seen that God hates idolatry, sexual immorality, injustice, hypocrisy, deceit, pride, and evil…
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Unjust, Unkind, Unfair, Un-humble?
It is a bold claim we Christians make, a claim that puts us at odds with the great majority of people on this earth. Our claim is that, by the grace of God, we’ve got it right and they’ve got it wrong, that we know the way to be made right with God and they…
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Mercy for the Impetuous
Today’s guest blog comes courtesy of Chris Larson. Chris is responsible for the outreach and operations of Ligonier Ministries. And, as it happens, he is also a friend. Chris was kind enough to provide an article dealing with mercy. Peter didn’t just blow it, he blew it badly. “Though they all fall away…I will never…
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An Interview with Lukas VanDyke
This marks the third interview I’ve completed with artists involved in various disciplines. I first interviewed Max McLean about performance art and then Makoto Fujimura on his abstract art. Today I turn to photography and interview Lukas VanDyke, a photographer I have met at several conferences. Lukas is an exceptional photographer and I enjoyed his…