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A La Carte (03/09)

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Thursday March 9, 2006

Du Jour: Mike writes about the joy of having a son become a brother. “I look forward to seeing what God does with this young life, the life of my son who is now my brother.”

Theology: Ingrid links to some statistics compiled by Kim Riddlebarger showing that many pastors at the National Pastors Convention could not answer fairly basic questions of theology.

Humor: Lisa has an oldie but a goodie on her site: ” Application for permission to court my daughter.”

Blogspotting: Jacob Hantla stands in the way of my goal of becoming a top-100 Amazon reviewer. I gave him notice yesterday in an email with the subject, “I’m Coming After You Hantla,” that he is going down.


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