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Wednesday April 23, 2008

Pulpit Reviews “Expelled”
Pulpit blog reviewed Ben Stein’s “Expelled” and says, “I strongly recommend college students go and see this movie, and strongly recommend that their shepherds take the time to talk to them afterwards.”


Temperature Sensors and Global Warming
An interesting article uses a infrared camera to show why global temperatures may at times appear to be creeping upwards.


Shepherd Press Asks Why
Jay Younts expands on an article I wrote and says, “Let’s consider one basic question regarding the issue of protecting our children from the entrapment of the world: Why? As in Why do they want to sin?”


Rare Books
This Dallas Theological Seminary project offers scans of complete and very rare books.


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