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Weekend A La Carte (11/17)

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Sex Is Cheap – Collin Hansen writes that sex is cheap in Birmingham. “We knew Redeemer Community Church meets in a tough neighborhood. In fact, that’s why we’re here. So the sting itself didn’t catch our attention. But you could hear the gasps in the congregation when Joel told us the going rate for a prostitute in our neighborhood. Sex is cheap in Birmingham.”

Phone Restaurant Etiquette – Here’s a helpful guide to the etiquette of using your mobile phone while at a restaurant.

Questions for Expositors – Tim Chester answers ten questions for expositors. This is quite a helpful interview.

Yes, CIA and FBI Can Read Your Email – Here’s a realistic, take-off-the-tin-foil-hat look at what the government can do to access your email account.

Space Pictures This Week – National Geographic puts together some great, recent pictures of space.

Christianity and Celebrity Status – Barnabas Piper offers an insightful look at Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow and what Christians do when they lost interest in their celebrities.

Multitudes who come to church for comfort need to be severely discomfited and awakened out of their lethal slumbering.

—Richard Owen Roberts

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    Do You Practice?

    There is little we are called to in life that is purely intuitive. There is little that truly matters to our lives, yet comes to us innately. To the contrary, almost everything that is important and almost everything that matters requires practice. What matters most in life is love. We are called to love the…

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    As He Reaches Toward Us, We Reach Toward Him

    When it comes to our growth as Christians, there are two related truths we need to understand and keep constantly in mind: Advance in the Christian life, which is to say advance in our relationship with God and advance in being like God, comes by a combination of God’s work and our work.

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    Over the course of a lifetime, not to mention over the course of any given month or week, we have to make many decisions. Some of them are consequential and some insignificant, some change the course of our lives and some barely even register. Yet as Christians we know we are responsible before God to…