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A La Carte (July 4)

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Zamperini’s Greatest Victory – “Zamperini saw his conversion as the hinge for all that went before it, and all that followed in his long life. He wanted as many other people as possible to hear about salvation through Christ through his own story: ‘That’s the message of the book’.”

I Could Have Sued and Won – Tara Barthel writes about having to put her own teaching into action.

When We Best Learn the Bible – This is good stuff: “Sound Bible study is rooted in a celebration of delayed gratification. Gaining Bible literacy requires allowing our study to have a cumulative effect — across weeks, months, years — so that the interrelation of one part of Scripture to another reveals itself slowly and gracefully, like a dust cloth slipping inch by inch from the face of a masterpiece.”

Burial or Cremation – Here’s an interesting look at the burial vs cremation debate.

The Landlord – Lore Ferguson: “I was called the The Responsible One yesterday. But I haven’t felt responsible in a year or more. I’m backtracking and highlighting and caveating and trying to figure out where I misplaced responsibility.”

Spurgeon

He counts the stars and calls them by name, yet he heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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