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Weekend A La Carte (February 20)

Cancer Cons, Phoney Accidents and Fake Deaths

“After Taryn Wright exposed an elaborate fake tragedy on Facebook, she found herself leading a squad of online detectives – but on the internet, it doesn’t take long for a crowd to become a mob.”

Clearance Sale

Westminster Books is having a clearance sale, discounting books they have too many of.

Yosemite Natural Firefall 2016

Yosemite puts on quite the display for a couple of weeks a year.

The Un-Resume

I like this: “In an exercise in humility, I would like to pull back part of the curtain by writing a resume not of my accomplishments and successes, but of my failures—for this too is a significant part of who I am (and who I am not), giving perhaps a more balanced perspective on the life of an academic.”

Keep Your Home Porn-Free

Here’s a recent interview and conversation I had with Jonathon Von Maren on keeping your home (and life) porn-free.

Monty Williams

Be sure to watch this video of Monty Williams speaking at his wife’s funeral. It is very, very powerful.

The Number One Reason We Struggle Overcoming Sin

Thanks to P&R for sponsoring the blog this week with “The Number One Reason We Struggle Overcoming Sin.”

Spurgeon

Some men pray to be made holy, but they wish to keep some little pet sin in the backyard.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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