Category: The Bookshelf
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What Message Are We Declaring?
Continuing on thoughts from yesterday’s post… I read this today on Of First Importance. “Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our…
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The Impact Of The Word Stunning
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life In America released a survey of Americans last summer. This is what they wrote: “There is a stunning lack of alignment between people’s practices and their professed faith.” Thoughts?
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The Rose & The Rock
“You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.” [Robert Murray M’Cheyne, Letter: 9 March 1843] (Making it’s way to my inbox from our friend, John. Check out his…
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Of Doctors And Idiots And House Calls
The ministry of doctors and nurses appeared to me more than ever before as a divine thing then, and I felt that our Lord Jesus, beholding them, must love them, and greatly desire to work together with them, laying His hand upon theirs as they work, in guidance and benediction. (~Amy Carmichael) So. if you’ve…
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Sickness Comes On Horseback…
…but leaves on foot. (Ancient Proverb) My hubby is on day 6 of the flu and finally feeling better although very tired. My buddy is on day three. Bear and Bella are on day one. I find it ironic that I am the only healthy one in the house. Brian said it best, “If you…
A Spring of Joy 