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A La Carte (11/02)

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Wednesday October 2, 2005

Quote: Woody Allen discusses aging. “I’ve gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.”

Family: Last night my daughter (age 3) said to my wife, “Mommy, the shadows prove the sunshine, right?” Methinks I’ve been listening to too much Switchfoot.

Du Jour:Paul Lamey is blogging from Beeson Divinity School where John Piper is delivering the Reformation Heritage Lectures. Coverage begins here.

Debate: Tom Ascol breaks the news that Drs. Al Mohler and Paige Patterson will take a session at the 2006 Pastors’ Conference prior to the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Greensboro, NC to debate Calvinism.


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