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A La Carte (10/9)

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Do I Have to Know the Date? – “Pastor John, I was greatly troubled in a service recently when the preacher said that unless each person could identify the specific day that they prayed ‘the sinner’s prayer’ they were not converted. … I feel sure I am converted but this preacher has unsettled me enormously. What are your thoughts on this?”

Fighting the Good Fight – Rosaria Butterfield is fighting the good fight. Denny Burk brings you up to date.

This Is My Son – Greg Lucas shares a moving poem.

From the DMZ – David Platt and Francis Chan were standing at the DMZ between North and South Korea and “recorded this short, candid video reflecting on the realities of a closed country with little or no access to the gospel.”

Broken Lives of Fukushima – The Big Picture has a gallery of haunting images from the area around the Fukushima reactor.

If It Be Your Will – No one says it quite like R.C. Sproul.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

—Sinclair Ferguson

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