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1. I cannot help but again recommend the Mat Kearney song \u201cCloser to Love\u201d<\/a> to you.\u00a0 So you know, it is not me who is doing the recommending, it is the musical beast inside of me.<\/p>\n

2. What makes good writing good?\u00a0 Can one teach others to write?\u00a0 This New Yorker piece by Louis Menand asks such questions<\/a>.\u00a0 Highly interesting.\u00a0 And one learns in it that Joyce Carol Oates used to write 40 pages a day.<\/p>\n

3. Baptist 21 writer Jed Coppenger reflects on how the financial crisis is affecting the sending of Southern Baptist missionaries<\/a>.\u00a0 Tough times are tough times, but surely, Christians will not allow them to stop the absolutely essential work of sending missionaries.<\/p>\n

4. Mike McKinley, a writer to read and church planter, discusses some of the basics of planting<\/a>.\u00a0 Look for his book on the subject in days to come.<\/p>\n

5. I have no link here, but really, how badly did the Magic play last night?\u00a0 Jameer Nelson played way too much.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a Magic fan, but I desperately do not want the Lakers to win the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

\u2013Have a great weekend, all.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"