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Thursday May 10, 2007

Video: In case you have a morbid sense of curiosity, this is what one of the infamous clown communions looks like.

Du Jour: Don Elbourne weighs in on Virginia Tech and Hurricane Katrina.

Activism: Activists in Austria want to have a chimp legally declared a person. We continue to await the chimp’s response.

Theology: Joe Carter has some good food for thought in an article about “Ten Deadly Trappings of Evangelism.” I don’t agree with all of them, but he raises some interesting concerns.


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    Could I Be One of the Bad Guys?

    Here is something I have been considering over the past few days: Every one of us acknowledges there is a lamentable lack of unity among Christians today. Yet none of us seems to consider that we ourselves may be the cause of that disunity, or at least contribute to it. In our minds, it is…

  • A La Carte Friday 2

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  • Moving House and Moving Church

    Would It Be Better to Take a Pay Cut Than a Church Cut?

    There are times when circumstances dictate that we move—that we move from one town to another, one province or state to another, or even one country or continent to another. There are other times when it is desire more than circumstance that causes us to uproot ourselves from one location and re-root ourselves in another.

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    A La Carte (October 23)

    A La Carte: How to write a meaningful card / God brings us bad to give us best / New notebook, same mission / There but for the grace of God go I / The trouble with competitiveness / and more.

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    A La Carte (October 22)

    A La Carte: John Piper on future judgment / Is every sin the same in God’s eyes? / The long defeat of history / Common marketplace leadership sayings / Infertility and grief / Kindle deals / and more.