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Flashback: A parent longs for their child to be saved, yet no one has ever been nagged into the Christian faith. God never identifies nagging as a means of grace or cajoling as a strategy for evangelism. challies.com/articles/be-a-m…

"We waste time when we do not pray." (Iain Murray)

8 Ways to help your kids love the church / I hate your Halloween decorations / How mental illness became an identity / It can happen here, too / How the mainstream recruits for the manosphere / Why paper books endure / Kindle deals, and more. challies.com/a-la-carte/a-la…

Flashback: There are many activities families can and will do together. But by establishing family devotions as a shared habit and by calling us to gather for it every weekday morning, we meant to show that time together with the Lord is a priority. challies.com/articles/whats-…

"What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten—is as good as no God to us." (Stephen Charnock)

What happens when the people in porn are not real exist, but are merely generated by AI? Could AI allow us to create ethical pornography that solves one of the foremost concerns that come with real pornography? challies.com/articles/is-it-…

3 Reasons why Christians should lay “R.I.P.” to rest / Goodbye, ‘Sam’s Club’ megachurch. Hello, stained glass. / Beauty demands to be noticed / Aslan Sane: the Bowiefication of Narnia / Aslan and the Christians who can’t be enchanted / and more. challies.com/a-la-carte/a-la…

Flashback: “God, teach me how to serve you in sickness even better than I did in health. God, show me how to honor you in grief with even greater faithfulness than in joy. God, lead me to greater fruitfulness in lack than in abundance.” challies.com/articles/thy-wi…

"People are seeking this or that quality in their wives. I say, 'Give me a praying wife.'" (Thomas Charles)

This week brings a substantial new commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith from a whole team of Reformed scholars, an updated edition of a well-known apologetics book, a couple of books for kids, and a new edition of the ESV. challies.com/articles/this-w…

Why does everyone else’s life seem better than mine? / Adoption is not a treatment for infertility / Can a Christian be demon-possessed? / 7 Keys for thriving in lifelong ministry / Put the destination in the frame / and more. challies.com/a-la-carte/a-la…

Flashback: We have the sober and sobering responsibility to be careful—so very careful—about who we read, who we watch, who we listen to, who we allow to influence us. For bit by bit, day by day, sermon by sermon, podcast by podcast, we will come to resemble the people we follow. challies.com/articles/the-in…

"If sin's reign over us is ended, then we must not—indeed cannot—go on living as though we were still its subjects. It now becomes irrational to use the body as if it were still the body in which sin reigned." (Sinclair Ferguson)