My Desktop Photo 62: Wild Strawberry

Photo by Andrew Stark
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More about the wild strawberry, which is blooming right now: Waving the White Flag.

Round the Sphere Again

Brainflexing

• For the kids: Making the most of the summer holidays. (Al Mohler)

• For you: A summer reading list with a twist. (CT)

  …if you want to shake up your summer selections, consider picking up one or more of these newly released, theologically informed books.

  Two of these books are in the queue to be reviewed here over the summer months.

Borderline
I thought the map of the United States I had in my head was perfect, yet I scored only 6 out of 10 on this U.S. geography quiz.(mental_floss Blog) All I needed to do was determine whether two states share a common border. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? I’m betting you’ll find it trickier than you anticipated unless you cheat and look at a map.

Did you do better than I did?

Bloggish
Top search query of the week at Rebecca Writes: Leftover mashed potatoes. Second prize goes to a longstanding popular search term: Fried halibut.

Top content, if I exclude recent posts, is—you guessed it—the post on using up leftover mashed potatoes.

You’d think this was a cooking blog.

Unto whom is Baptism to be administered?

Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him,[1] but infants descending from parents, either both, or but one of them, professing faith in Christ, and obedience to him, are in that respect within the covenant, and to be baptized.[2]

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