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Ligonier Ministries National Conference – Forgive me if I’ve linked this before. This year’s Ligonier Ministries National Conference looks to be a good one. It deals with Tough Questions Christians Face and will feature R.C. Sproul, Alistair Begg, Michael Horton, Steve Lawson, Al Mohler and more. Also, there will be a pre-conference called Bits, Bytes, Blogs and Bibles where I will be speaking along with Al Mohler Ed Stetzer and Burk Parsons.

Passion Plays – I enjoyed this article, an outside perspective on passion plays, written by a young Jewish man.

Off the Face of the Earth – Here is “the remarkable story of a group of Holocaust survivors who hid in one of the world’s largest caves.”


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  • What Grieves the Heart of God

    What Grieves the Heart of God?

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