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A La Carte (November 21)

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Immigration Reform Will Tear Us Apart – Here is Russell Moore’s response to President Obama’s immigration executive action.

Things – Things is a fantastic piece of productivity software for Apple users, and the iOS versions are free for a week (down from $9.99 and $19.99): iPhone, iPad. I rate it second only to OmniFocus for what it does.

Choose Hospitality Over Entertaining – Jen Wilkin asks forgiveness and provides some sound counsel.

A Marked Ministry – WORLD magazine features an interview with Mark Dever, who always has good things to say.

Why Do Rivers Curve? – How did we ever learn such things before YouTube?

Why the Church Needs Struggling Members – “The opposite of our instinct is what we really need most, and when it comes down to it, our trials are not always about us. Sometimes we go through them for the sake of others.”

Swinnock

Every breath in your life is a gift of mercy.

—George Swinnock

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