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A La Carte (February 27)

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Warming Up Your Car – The current cold snap seems like a good context to share this article about the myth of warming up your car on a cold day.

Three Relationship Rules – You may appreciate these three relationship rules from Ed Welch.

A Three-Parent Baby – How do you make a baby from three parents? Here’s how…

Counter Culture – If you’d like a second opinion on David Platt’s new book (which I reviewed on Tuesday), Al Mohler has written a really helpful review.

Euthanasia Comes to Canada – While we are on the subject of new cultural issues, Canada has recently full-out embraced euthanasia. Obviously this opens up some serious dangers and implications.

Who Turned the Lights Out? – Bob Kauflin writes about the relatively new phenomenon of turning down the lights during a worship service.

Mysteries of Sleep Lie Unsolved – I’m really bad at sleeping and have found the same thing as this author: sleep-tracking devices provide information, but not answers.

Spurgeon

Because He’s the living God, He can hear. Because He’s a loving God, He will hear.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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    When Christians Disagree

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    Maybe We Make Meditation Too Difficult

    Of all the Christian disciplines, it is my guess that meditation may be the least practiced—though I suppose fasting might have something to say about that. Most people diligently make time to read the Bible and pray. And yet, while most people have good intentions when it comes to meditation, it so often seems to…

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