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A La Carte (12/11)

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Monday December 11, 2006

Christmas: GirlTalk blog posts a list of suggested gift ideas courtesy of C.J. Mahaney. I especially recommended his top suggestion.

Conference: The reFocus Conference, which features a great list of speakers (Piper, Ware, Driscoll, Packer, etc), has begun a blog.

Du Jour: GospelDrivenLife has an interesting article dealing with Censorious Thoughts/

Music: Paul introduces a hymn we sang for the first time at church yesterday. Written by Wesley, it is titled “God Contracted to a Span.”


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