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Wednesday January 4, 2006

Review: Derick Dickens reviews Dave Swavely’s Who Are You To Judge?. “This is truly a liberating book and one that needs to be read by more conservatives to help us balance our legalism with the true Bible.”

Blogging: Focus on the Family’s Citizen Magazine has a story about bloggers entitled Pajama Warriors. It mentions many of our favorite Christian bloggers.

Theology: Gary Gilley continues discussing “God’s Will, Lost or Found” in the third part of a series on biblical decision making.

Travel: Trinidad and Tobago Express compares the murder rates in Toronto and Trinidad. “With more than twice as many people as Trinidad and Tobago, Toronto has recorded a little more than one-fifth (78) the number of this country’s murders (384).”


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