Booking Through Thursday: Ground Floor

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme which poses a question or a thought for participants to discuss centering on the subject of books or reading. The question for this week is: There’s something wonderful about getting in on the ground floor of an author’s career–about being one of the first people to read and [...]

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Book Review: 50 People Every Christian Should Know

In the preface to 50 People Every Christian Should Know: Learning From Spiritual Giants of the Faith, author Warren Wiersbe states that he has been greatly helped by reading biographies. “The past is not an anchor to drag us back but a rudder to help guide us into the future.” I love to read biographies [...]

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Wednesday Hodgepodge

Joyce From This Side of the Pond hosts a weekly Wednesday Hodgepodge of questions for fun and for getting to know each other. 1. What is more important-doing what you love or loving what you do? Well, we don’t always get to do what we love, though it’s nice if we enjoy our main job. [...]

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Where is the grace?

My husband and I are not football fans, so we didn’t watch the Super Bowl. I only vaguely knew who was playing just from hearing it discussed by others. But a couple of events related to the Super Bowl have saddened and frustrated me this week. One had to do with this commercial. It was [...]

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Testimonies at Marriage Monday

  E-Mom at Chrysalis hosts a Marriage Monday every month and this month the topic is our testimonies.  I wrote mine previously here and invite you there to read further.

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The Week In Words

Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, [...]

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O Great God

This is a song from the Steve Pettit team‘s CD So High the Price that really speaks to me. Apparently it is based on a prayer from the Valley of Vision collection of Puritan Prayers. You can hear a bit of it by going here and clicking on “O Great God.” O Great God O [...]

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Laudable Linkage and Videos

It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but here are some things around the Web that I’ve found interesting — perhaps some will interest you as well. Mercy in a Dustpan about practical ways of ministering to others in a crisis. What If I’m Not a Gifted Evangelist? HT to Challies. Someday Is a [...]

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Friday’s Fave Five

Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share our favorite things from the last week. This has been a wonderful exercise in looking for and appreciating the good things God blesses us with. Click on the button to learn more, then go to Susanne’s [...]

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Flashback Friday: Commercials and ads

Mocha With Linda hosts a weekly meme called Flashback Friday. She’ll post a question every Thursday, and then Friday we can link our answers up on her site. You can visit her site for more Flashbacks. The prompt for today is: What commercials and advertisements–either TV/radio, magazine/newspaper, or even billboards (Burma Shave, anyone?!)–do you associate [...]

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