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Weekend A La Carte (October 11)

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I get my wife back today! Aileen has spent the last few days in Indianapolis to take in the 2014 True Woman conference. It sounds like she is having a great time, but I’ll be glad to have her back just in time for Thanksgiving (which, in Canada, we celebrate this weekend).

Here’s an interesting and quantified take on America’s Most Well-Spoken President – “We crunched the data on more than 600 presidential speeches and addresses to see how they changed over time, and had Bill Clinton’s speechwriter check the results. Our findings may surprise you.”

A Lens to the Front is a photo gallery from Iraq.

Thanks to Books at a Glance for sponsoring the blog this week. Sponsors help keep this site afloat by covering the costs associated with hosting and maintenance.

I always love to read Sinclair Ferguson on the Bible – “If Scripture is our final authority, exactly how reliable is it as the authority on which we should base the whole of our lives?”

The title of this one just about says it all: Let Your Dim, Sin-Stained Light Shine Before The World.

This article outlines one of the ways same-sex marriage will affect friendships. Esolen asks us to imagine a world in which the incest taboo is erased. In such a place, “You see a father hugging his teenage daughter as she leaves the car to go to school. The possibility flashes before your mind. The language has changed, and the individual can do nothing about it.”

Rogers

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

—Adrian Rogers

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