Category: The Guest House
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“Making Peace With Halloween”
Jason Gray at The Rabbit Room wrote a thought-provoking post about Making Peace With Halloween. Here’s a taste: …these days my guiding conviction is that my job as a co-sanctifier with Christ is to take what is broken and do my part in reclaiming it, perhaps even making it beautiful, by God’s grace. My earlier…
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A Vote For Bella is a Vote for Zuzu (or something like that)
Are any of y’all in need of a soothing night of solo piano music? How about your kids? A little piano music to help them fall asleep? I know just the place to go! My friend, John, is a gifted composer and pianist. He will soon be releasing his newest CD, Zuzu’s Petals, and I…
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Sunday Selections: Radically Different Dreams
And so we’ve bought an unbiblical definition of the good life of success. Our kids have to be skilled at three sports and play four musical instruments, and our house has to be lavish by whatever standard. And all of that stuff is eating time, eating energy, eating money. And it doesn’t promote community… …You…
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Sunday Selections: Sources of Spiritual Power
I think that much exposure to sensuality, banality, and God-absent entertainment does more to deaden our capacities for joy in Jesus than it does to make us spiritually powerful in the lives of the living dead. Sources of spiritual power—which are what we desperately need—are not in the cinema. You will not want your biographer…
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Enriching Amusement (BABE style)
In the Rocktown Weekly, a local newspaper, Andrew Jenner writes: The dudes of Team British Rust will end up in Newport, Tenn., tomorrow night, and reach New Orleans by Friday evening, if The Mighty Boosh makes it. The air in the parking deck is electric now, bursting with the infectious energy of a few guys…
A Spring of Joy 