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Brad J. Gray   / 6.17.21
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Cult Brands, Finding Confidence, Waffle House Grace, the God Who Loves Creation, and More

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The Puritans Are On The Run

The Whirlwind of Uncertainty Made for an Abundance of Judgments

Duo Dickinson   / 6.16.21
Learning From Dad

Everything I Needed to Learn about Law and Gospel I Learned From my Dad. 

Will Ryan   / 6.16.21
Being a Christian, in Spite of Yourself 

Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: Notes from the Mockingbird Book Club.

Ben Self   / 6.16.21
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The Gospel and the Enneagram

Cali Yee   / 6.15.21
My June Movie Picks, Part Two

I’ve annotated a list of movies playing on Turner Class Movies in June 2021 (with the […]

Paul Zahl   / 6.14.21
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The Gory, Ghoulish and Grotesque Groove of the Gospel

Mockingbird   / 6.14.21
Unforced Love

The Harder We Try, the Less it Happens

Amanda McMillen   / 6.11.21
The Loser Got the Trophy

The 2021 Memorial Tournament and Substitutionary Atonement

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