Friday’s Fave Five

Welcome to Friday’s Fave Five, hosted by Susanne at Living to Tell the Story, in which we can share five of 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 [...]

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Giveaway #3

To continue celebrating 2,500 posts and 5 years of blogging, here is my third giveaway. (The giveaway for Day 1 is here and Day 2 is here.) Come to the Table is more than a cookbook: it does have recipes, but it also has beautiful photography, quotes, poems, meditations, and Scriptures about hospitality and food [...]

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Thoughts on Coffee Shop Conversations: Making the Most of Spiritual Small Talk

The first few years after I was saved as a teen-ager, whenever I heard anyone teach or preach about witnessing to others, we were instructed to somehow get to the point of asking, “If you were to die tonight, do you know that you’d go to heaven?” Then, if the person would allow us, we [...]

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Giveaway #2

I mentioned yesterday that in celebration of 2,500 posts and 5 years of blogging, I’m having a few days of giveaways. A funny thing happened last Christmas….while doing some online shopping, I clicked on the “Today’s Deals” at Amazon.com, which I had never done before. I’m not sure why I did that day. But that [...]

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Milestones, Celebrations, and Giveaways

According to my blog stats, this is my 2500th post. Wow. Who knew I had so much to say? Also, my fifth blogoversary was July 27, and somehow it just blew by me. Usually I anticipate it and often have a giveaway around then. This being a “milestone” year (somehow birthdays and anniversaries ending in [...]

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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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Speak O Lord

These words are perfect for any day, but especially on a Sunday getting ready to go to church. Speak, O Lord, as we come to You To receive the food of Your Holy Word. Take Your truth, plant it deep in us; Shape and fashion us in Your likeness, That the light of Christ might [...]

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Laudable Linkage

It’s a beautiful Saturday morning here in eastern TN! Hope it is where you are, too. Here are a few things that were interesting to me over the last couple of weeks: Nine Potential Pitfalls of Ministry. Very good, very convicting. The Lost Art of Meeting a Spouse, HT to Challies. Most single people I [...]

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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 five of 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 [...]

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Happy Housewife Day!

Who knew we had our own day? I didn’t until seeing that e-Mom was giving away an apron to celebrate. I’m not an apron person, but if you are go check it out — you might win! In looking around trying to find out more about it, it doesn’t seem to be a national holiday [...]

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