Author: Tim Challies

What I Use (and Don’t Use) To Make this Site

A friend recently said something that disquieted me. He said that he assumes I make use of AI in creating the articles I post to this site or in selecting the articles I link to on other sites. I suppose it’s a fair assumption since so many people across so many fields are now relying on AI to do tasks they once performed themselves. But I think it’s important you know that I do not use AI in any way. It’s important because so much information is now being created and provided by artificial intelligence. Websites are full of AI slop, and it is often difficult to trust the information they provide. The top results on Google are now usually AI-generated and, in my experience, often wrong. (Just yesterday, it assured me I had written a study guide for one of my books that most certainly does not exist.) While AI may increase the quantity of information that is being created and amplify our access to it, it is at the same time eroding our confidence in it. And what use is information if it is not trustworthy? So I want you to know that every article on this site is written by me and is created without any use of artificial intelligence. Every item that appears in A La Carte has been found, read, chosen, and inserted by me, also without the use of any artificial intelligence. This is an old-school blog where a person does it all and does it all manually. There…See AlsoAI Makes Me Doubt EverythingAuthentic AI To Help Your Business Be More EfficientSite Updates

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A La Carte (August 11)

A La Carte: Audacious prayer / Your soccer coach has a plan for your life / Contending without being contentious / Why Reformed doctrine matters / The dark side of God’s sovereignty / Kindle deals / and more.See AlsoA La Carte (April 24)A La Carte (March 28)A La Carte (August 29)

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The Custom-Crafted Church

Though every child at times wishes it were otherwise, we do not get to choose our brothers and sisters. Rather, through the miracle of conception, God chooses who will join our families.See AlsoA La Carte (August 19)A La Carte (June 11)Involuntary Community

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Weekend A La Carte (August 9)

A La Carte: CCM, the Gaines, and Christian subculture / Inner experience as the ultimate sexual authority / A father in challenging times / The case for pew Bibles / Love never fails / The gospel and our kids / and more.See AlsoA La Carte (February 21)A La Carte (8/3)A La Carte (8/24)

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Are You a Good Investor?

Sometimes you read a book and realize quickly that it probably won’t make a tremendous difference to your life. It could be that the book simply isn’t very good—we have all encountered those books. Or it could be that its information is so irrelevant that there is nothing to gain from it, or already so familiar that you’ve already applied all of its lessons. The Good Investor Robin John (Affiliate links) But then sometimes you read a book and realize in the opening pages that it might make a huge difference to your life—that it has already begun to shift your thinking in an integral way. It did not take me long after beginning The Good Investor to realize it was going to fall squarely into the second category. The Good Investor is written by Robin John, who co-founded an asset management firm and now serves as its CEO. The book’s subtitle explains what it means to be a good investor: “How Your Work Can Confront Injustice, Love Your Neighbor, and Bring Healing to the World.” John’s concern is that many Christians do not understand how their investments may be fostering injustice and causing harm. Not only that, but many Christians do not understand how their investments could be fostering justice, expressing love to their neighbor, and bringing healing to the world. The way we invest our money is not neutral, and we are responsible before the Lord for the allocation of each dollar. “This is a book,” he begins, “about joy, specifically the joy…See AlsoHelp Your Family Make a Tech ExitCould I Be One of the Bad Guys?My New Book: Run to Win

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