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Weekend A La Carte (March 21)

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Mental Floss explains How a Brilliant Intelligence Officer Used ‘Monopoly’ to Free WWII POWs. It’s an interesting story.

BBC has great footage of the recent total solar eclipse.

An unlikely friendship joins Christian efforts to battle high-interest loans: How a Twitter Feud over Same-Sex Marriage May Doom Payday Lending.

Here’s the Christian’s call: Come and Die. “Have you ever seen a military recruitment poster or TV ad that showed wounded soldiers? Ever seen one that showed soldiers taking bullets, medics administering morphine to blood-gushing comrades, or an array of battle-hardened quadriplegics?”

A Good Mentor Slows You Down. And, I suppose, at times he might speed you up as well! But the point is well-taken.

Thanks to RPTS for sponsoring the blog today with their article Technology and the Christian Life.

Tim Keller nails it, in this excerpt from The Meaning of Marriage: You Never Marry the Right Person.

Spurgeon

In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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