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A La Carte (01/17)

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Tuesday January 17, 2006

Theology: John the baptist wants to know whether early church deacons were waiters or bankers (or both).

Worship: Phil Johnson discusses worship and whether or not karaoke qualifies as public worship. He says that “Karaoke is a populist form of burlesque.”

Church: The Church Report lists the 50 most influential Christians in America. What happened to John MacArthur? And since when is Dr. Phil a Christian leader?

Site: Is anyone else noticing how much faster my site is running since the forums went kaput? They were definitely putting quite a strain on the server. However, I have brought them back to life so you can go back to commenting if you like. I am going to try to re-integrate the old comments with the old threads.


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