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Weekend A La Carte (November 8)

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I enjoyed this take on The Crucial Importance of Stay-at-Home Wives. It looks beyond the importance of moms raising their children and looks to other benefits.

David Murray looks at a new book and mines 12 Ways to Make (And Keep) Friends.

Thanks to Mere Agency for sponsoring the blog this week with their excellent article Why Most Web Sites Are Hard To Use (And What To Do About It).

Here’s a good article about Manhood and the Cross. “Regardless of your title or position, what must be understood, is that the way we perform in our title and position is defined by the cross.”

Risk Is Right – Desiring God interviews Ebola survivor and missionary Nancy Writebol. “Along with her husband of 40 years, David, she was serving as a missionary in Monrovia, Liberia, before the Ebola outbreak. They served in a hospital that would become a frontline defense against the disease.”

Disaster at the Speed of Sounds – Here’s an account of what happened on that ill-fated SpaceShipTwo flight.

Spurgeon

It is at once the most Christlike and the most happy course for a believer to cease from living to himself.

—C.H. Spurgeon

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