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A La Carte (06/02)

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Friday June 2, 2006

Family: Russell Moore has a moving post celebrating his son’s birthday. “Five years ago today my oldest son, Benjamin, was born. Five years ago on June 19th my middle son, Timothy, was born. I missed both days…”

Du Jour: Rebecca has an update on a tragic story and yet a story of faith. It’s a must-read.

Sexuality: Jollyblogger has done the research and has discovered from Scripture that sex is good. “I contend that…Christianity is pro-sex.”

Technology: From the “neat but useless” file comes NPA-NXX Geolocator, a “phone prefix location lookup tool” that uses Google Maps.


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