“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Free Advent resources
As my kids are getting older, I’m noticing that most family devotions are aimed for younger kids. It’s hard to find something that spans later elementary and teen ages. Recently, I’ve stumbled across two resources that are currently free. FREE! Snoopy Dance! The first free resources is Joy to the World! An Advent Journey Through the Songs of […]
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Tiptoeing into Christmas
Now that Thanksgiving is over, we are officially and fully in the Christmas season. Traditionally, this is the weekend that we pull everything down from the attic, spend the whole day decorating, and “prepare” for Christmas in one fell swoop. But that didn’t happen this year. The turkey is eaten; the pie is gone; the scarecrows […]
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Great Cloud of Witnesses: The Apostle Thomas
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 […]
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Lenten Focus: Saeed Abedini
For more on my Lenten Focus, see yesterday’s post. A quick summary is that I am spending Lent fasting and praying for the Persecuted Church, and I invite you to join me. Today, I’ll be praying for Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-born U.S. citizen who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than two years. He […]
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Seeds of the church
“Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man […]
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Recapturing solemnity
Today, our church had an ordination service for a new pastor. I have seen a few ordinations before, which generally amounted to the pastor laying hands on and praying over the new guy then giving a quick, “Heeeeeere’s Pastor!” And then the offering, the announcements, yada yada yada. Gotta keep the show moving. Or they […]
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Lewis on Letting Go
This post may contain affiliated links. This is a variation of a very popular C.S. Lewis quote. Lewis is, of course, highly quotable, but the context of the quotes is where the real meat lies. Lewis had an enormous correspondence, and one of his pen-pals was an American woman Mary Willis Shelburne. His letters to […]
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Magnifiers
The late Larry Burkett, noted Christian financial teacher, said that money is a magnifier. Whatever you are, gets bigger. If you are generous, abundance will result in more abundance. If you’re greedy, abundance will result in greater greed. That’s true of money, but it’s also true of a lot of other things, both good and […]
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Reciting prayers
I am Protestant through and through. Moreover, I’m an American Evangelical. That means my prayers are spontaneous, unscripted, and required to have two to three “Father Gods” and at least three uses of “just” per prayer. While we may recite the Apostle’s creed once or twice a year and the Nicene Creed once a decade, […]
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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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