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Weekend A La Carte (August 8)

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I think you will enjoy reading A Vintage Kindness by Bryan Loritts. I especially appreciate his distinction between niceness and kindness.

Jake Weidmann is one of just 12 master penmen in the world. His work is incredible.

Have you ever wondered what a MLB beat reporter does? The Blue Jays’ reporter gives the inside scoop. They keep those guys really busy!

Ray Ortlund writes briefly of the struggle of Performance in Music City USA. “Nashville is a city of truly amazing people. But under the surface are also stories of unspoken disappointment, insecurity, heartache, failure, loneliness, fear, regret, injury, loss, even as the show must go on.”

Amy explains why she is Pro-Life and not just anti-abortion.

I guess this is no surprise, given the cultural context: Men’s Fashion Is Headed for a Gender-Bending Moment Unseen Since the ’70s.

Thanks to smallgroup.com for sponsoring the blog this week with Three Things Jesus Never Told to Make Disciples.

Watson

The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

—Thomas Watson

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