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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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