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A La Carte (October 13)

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I’m at the Reformation Worship Conference this weekend and would love prayer as I speak three times today. I look forward to meeting some of you here!

CCEF 2017 National Conference

The CCEF National Conference begins today and continues through the weekend. It is available via livestream.

The Transgender Matrix: It’s Time to Choose the Red Pill

“But a funny thing happened. After about eight years, I gradually awoke. I realized the simple biological truth: I was still a man, had always been a man, and always would be a man. In terms of The Matrix, I took the red pill. With newfound clarity of vision, I could see that everything I had believed about the trans-life was a lie. God’s original design of two innate biological sexes, male and female, cannot be overthrown by taking hormones, having surgery, and living a masquerade.”

When You’re Lonely for a Friend

“Who will I call to come help me? I did not have an answer, because I did not have a friend. “

Why Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night are Illegal (Video)

Did you know it is illegal to take photos of the Eiffel Tower at night?

Something Better Than the Land

“Esau got his land right then, Jacob never got it in his lifetime. At first glance, it can seem like Esau is the favored one, the blessed one. It looks like he wins. He isn’t sent into slavery. He doesn’t wander in the desert. He doesn’t face enemies on every side (as far as we know). He gets the land immediately. He gets his best life now.”

Why I Don’t Want People to Know I’m a Cancer Specialist : Cancer on Nautilus

I found this an interesting perspective from a doctor.

You Were Created for More than Motherhood

“What we call motherhood–training and raising and caring for children–is fleeting, just like everything else. It doesn’t last forever, this phase of life. Children grow and they change and you grow and you change, and then they begin a new life out in this great big world. If, as I once believed, motherhood is the reason God made me, then what use am I when this phase of life is over?”

Flashback: 7 Things Your Church Needs From You

Here are 7 things your church needs from you.

Truth without love is brutality. Love without truth is hypocrisy.

—H.B. Charles Jr.

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