“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Great Cloud of Witnesses: Father of the English Bible
For more on my Lenten Focus, see my Ash Wednesday post. A quick summary is that I am spending Lent fasting and praying for the Persecuted Church, and I invite you to join me. For Sundays during Lent, I thought I’d look at some of the examples of the faith from Church history. As the […]
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Terrible Tuesday: At least the weather’s nice
It’s been beautiful here lately: sixties and seventies, clear skies. But it’s still February. Eighteen more days links! 10 Bible scenes that should be made into LEGO Sets. For the Protestants, just substitute Elijah and the Prophets of Baal for Judith. C.S. Lewis titles on-line. 19 fairly useful baking hacks. (The headline at the link […]
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Signs of resolutions
My 21-Day Sugar Detox Pinterest board is getting an increase in traffic and followers, and even my freezer and slowcooker boards are getting attention. People everywhere are vowing to be better versions of them! I’m still eating the treats from the Christmas stockings and wondering how much my family really needs to eat anyway. I’m […]
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The First Sunday in Advent
Today is the first Sunday of Advent, the season in the Christian calendar when Christians have traditionally prepared for the coming (Advent) of the Messiah. We’re in a bit of a pressure-cooker season, so I’m not sure how much preparation will get done. But even if my halls go completely undecked, we’ll set up our […]
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Working on the day of rest
I keep trying to pare down what I have to do on Sundays so that I can have an actual day of rest. I have most of a day of rest, but thus far, I haven’t figured out how to move the grocery shopping to a different day. The problem is my Saturdays are overloaded; […]
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Preparation for a new day
From today Table Talk devotional: “[S]in often takes things that the law says are good in themselves and deceives us into making them ultimate goods, that is idols. If we rest all our hope in achieving something that the law says is good — obedient children, a good name, and so forth — we might […]
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Good works
One of my favorite descriptions in the Bible is of Tabitha in the book of Acts. She cared for the poor, sewing clothes for the widows. Acts says, “This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did.” (Acts 9:36, NKJV) I love that picture of there being a reservoir of good […]
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Terrible Tuesday: I need a nap
Anyone else need a nap? Doesn’t a nap sound lovely? Let’s cancel our plans for today and nap. We can do that, right? Wishful thinking links! Evil walks the streets of Staten Island. Don’t click on this if you have clown phobia. I apologize in advance for the nightmares. Speaking of apologizing in advance, I’m […]
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Treasure
We have approximately 10 billion Bibles in this house. Okay, that’s a slight exaggeration. But we have well over a dozen copies of various versions in addition to e-books on phones and Kindles. We also have half a dozen different story Bibles and Bible dictionaries, concordances, and commentaries. We are wealthy with the Word of […]
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Annoying reminders
I gotta situation I’m dealing with. It’s a messy situation because it deals with people. And conflict. And conflicted people. My first inclinations is to say, “To hell with them!” and go out guns blazing. (Metaphorical guns. Nobody panic!) But my parents had me memorize all these bible verses as a kid and there’s one […]
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