Book Review: Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter

Over the last couple of years, I saw the book Come Thou Long Expected Jesus mentioned on several blogs. It was compiled by Nancy Guthrie and included excerpts from the writings and sermons of godly Christians through the ages. I read and enjoyed it very much last Christmastime, and then when I saw Nancy had [...]

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The Week In Words

Melissa at Breath of Life hosts a weekly carnival called The Week In Words,which involves sharing something from your reading that inspires you, causes you to laugh, cry, or dream, or just resonates with you in some way. Here are some of the words that stood out to me this week. I’m not going to [...]

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The Face of Jesus

The face of Jesus: marred more than any man– spit upon, slapped, thorn-pierced, bloodied, sweating, the beard plucked, twisted in pain– For my salvation. A glorious face, now. Let its light shine on me, O Light of Life. Let Your radiance fall on me, Sun and Savior, Lighten my darkness. Then grant me this by [...]

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Laudable Linkage

Here are some great things I’ve seen around the “Net and thought some of you might enjoy as well. If you’ve read here long, you know I have been greatly impacted by Elisabeth Elliot’s writing. Diane shared a link today to an interview with Elisabeth’s daughter, Valerie, with an update about Valerie’s family and how [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Susanne at Living to Tell the Story hosts a “Friday Fave Five” in which we share our five favorite things from the past week. Click on the button to read more of the details, and you can visit Susanne to see the list of others’ favorites or to join in. Here are a few of [...]

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Flashback Friday: Easter

Mocha With Linda has begun a new weekly meme called Flashback Friday. She’ll post a question every Thursday, and then Friday we can link our answers up on her site. The flashback question this week is: What was Easter like when you were little? For example, did you receive a basket with toys and candy? [...]

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Netiquette Meme

Edited to add: Please don’t take offense if you do one of the things I mentioned I don’t like. Maybe I should have ranked these from worst to not-that-bad. I think things like profanity or spam comments are pretty universally disliked, but some of these other things are just matters of personal preferences. If I [...]

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Wednesday’s Random Dozen

Linda at 2nd cup of coffee created and usually hosts the Random Dozen meme every Wednesday, but this week SouthLakesMom is hosting while Linda is helping a sick friend. You can answer the questions on your blog and link up here to find more participants. 1. What is your favorite sign of Spring? Color springing [...]

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What happened to spring?

I thought I just saw it around here somewhere a moment ago….

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What’s On Your Nightstand: March

The folks at 5 Minutes For Books host What’s On Your Nightstand? the fourth Tuesday of each month in which we can share about the books we have been reading and/or plan to read. You can learn more about it by clicking the link or the button. It seems strange to be doing a “nightstand” [...]

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