I spent a chunk of yesterday’s Family Day holiday catching up with some of the longform articles I had bookmarked but not yet gotten around to reading. You’ll see a few of them appear in A La Carte over the next few days. There’s a variety of books listed in today’s Kindle deals. (Yesterday on the blog: Lessons Learned Through Grief) Head Down And Into the Wind “Hope in Christ changes our goal from deliverance of circumstances to simply being faithful in …
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This week the blog is sponsored by Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle, which is in theatres tomorrow- Tuesday 2/18/20! Why is the historicity of the Exodus so important? It is nothing less than how God chose to reveal himself and his word to the world. Undermine its occurrence in time and space and you undermine the Bible as God’s revealed word. Patterns of Evidence: The Red Sea Miracle, is the first in a new two-part film series by …
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I have, in many ways, lived a very easy life. Sure, I’ve had my share of difficulties—I’ve lived, after all, in this broken world and not some perfect paradise. And while I know there isn’t a lot of value in comparing my little suffering to other people’s greater suffering, still I understand I have had it easy relative to so many people I’ve known and loved. Yet, this world being what it is, I knew it was only a matter …
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It is Family Day here in Canada—a holiday invented recently (as a campaign promise, I think) just to give us a day off in February. I gladly accept it. There are just a few Kindle deals today—two of them designed to help you with joy or happiness. Five Ways You’re Probably Not A Calvinist Wes Bredenhof outlines five ways in which you’re probably not following in the footsteps of John Calvin (which, in these cases, is probably actually a good …
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One key element of our worship at Grace Fellowship Church is a pastoral prayer, in which one of the elders prays for the church and on behalf of the church. Every now and again I like to share one of those prayers. This was my prayer last Sunday. Father, at various times each one of us is faced with the reality of our weakness. There may be times when we feel strong and capable and self-reliant. But then we get …
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