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A La Carte (10/12)

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Thursday October 12, 2006

Interview: Oaktreeidea.com has an interview with…me? You can read it here.

Du Jour: Mark Dever has posted a powerful quote from Richard Sibbes. “We cannot live long in this world. We owe God a death. We owe nature a death. The sentence of death is passed upon us…”

Blogging: USA Today has an article about a blogging defamation suit. “A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a ‘crook,’ a ‘con artist’ and a ‘fraud.’”

Theology: Mike answers those who feel Charles Spurgeon was not a Calvinist. “After wading through all the misinformation and dissimulating rhetoric coming from the Caners, one more thing has surfaced regarding Ergun Caner’s treatment of Spurgeon.”


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