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Monday January 14, 2008

Evangelists Lament Calvinism
An interesting article at Baptist Press–“[Calvinism] gives them an excuse not to do evangelism.”


There is Hope
What can you say about this?


Russian Couple Reunited After 60 Years
An interesting story out of Russia about a couple who were married but were forced apart only to rediscover each other by change sixty years later.


Reasons to Read
Colin gives you lots of reasons to read good books.


I’ve Fallen and Can’t Get Up
Phil Johnson begins a promising series dealing with human depravity. “Again and again we see that those who have embraced these truths of original sin and human depravity have been used by God in tremendous ways, while those who have resisted or rejected these truths have made shipwreck of the faith.”


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