My 10 favorite Instagram photos from 2021. Listed in chronological order.

7 Tips to Help Your Church Support Adoption / Technology Cannot Replace Presence: Why the Church Will Always Gather / The Deepest Part of You: How Feelings Relate to Choices / The Harvest of Homemaking

Every edition highlights what’s new in book reviews and what I’ve been enjoying reading. As always, I point you to all of the new free eBooks I’ve found around the web.

The Difficult Habit of Quiet / My Quiet Times Are Anything but Quiet / Does the Bible Direct Us to Have Quiet Times? / The Gift of a Quiet Heart

I Want to Know You / Greatly to be Praised

Evangelism as Exiles: Life on Mission as Strangers in Our Own Land. Elliott Clark / A Hunger for God by John Piper

The Nine Rings of Power for Men (Ringwraiths) / This Is How They Made the Lord of the Rings Title Sequence

The Preaching Class / Preaching to the Heart

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How can you teach your kids accurate truths about God? In The Apostles’ Creed: For All God’s Children, Lexham Press presents their first book of big theology for little kids.

How can you introduce your children to Jesus? In Who Is Jesus? Kate Hox presents 40 pictures to help you share Jesus with your family.

What does God think about video games? In A Student’s Guide to Gaming, Reagan Rose will help you think about what your relationship with gaming should look like.