I just started reading Michael Card’s newest book, “John, the Gospel of Wisdom”. It’s his second book on John, the first being “Parable of Joy“, and fifth on the different gospels. Card has a unique way of looking at the gospels, taking you back to walk with the writer to help understand their perspective. In…
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Whatever Happened…
Sometimes a good book hits home. Here are a couple of quotes from one I’ve been working through lately. From the chapter “Grace Alone”, page 119: “(M)any people…use justification theology to excuse their failure to care for others practically. They use knowledge of predestination to excuse their failure to evangelize. They use perseverance as an…
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Busy day?
When you are oppressed with the weight of any duty or service in your calling, improve your trust in God’s power. Perhaps you find the duty of your calling too heavy for your weak shoulders: lay the heaviest end of your burden in God’s shoulder. When at any time you are sick of your work…
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A Book to Watch For – If Only
From this trailer, it looks like this could be a good book. “Greener Grass Conspiracy” Trailer – Stephen Altrogge from Crossway on Vimeo.
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Help My Unbelief
I got a new book in the mail today, “The Hymns of Philip Doddridge”, which contains over 300 hymns written in the early to mid-18th century (Doddridge was born in 1702 and died in 1751). As I paged through it this morning I found this hymn which ties in to my previous post. It turns…
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The Beauty of Prayer
One of the best things in starting a new year is the chance to start afresh with a new yearly devotional book. I must admit, I’m much better at starting these than finishing them, but they are there throughout the year, specifically dated so you can always pick up right where you’re supposed to be. …
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Praise the Lord!
I’m reading from the Psalms today, 146 – 148, part of the closing section of five Psalms dedicated to praise. Each one starts and ends with the exhortation to “Praise the LORD! Here’s how each opens: Psalm 146:1,2 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as…
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A Father’s Joy
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. From today’s reading in 3 John verse 4.
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Return on investment
In business, one of the ways to determine if spending money or time (which equates to money) is a good idea is to calculate a return on investment, or ROI if you like acronyms. As homeowners, we calculate a different kind of ROI – can we get our money back from the improvement when we…
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The joy of buying books
Book stores are a huge weakness in my life, especially used book stores. Online bookstores are great, and brick and mortar stores selling new books are a definite draw, but a good used book store is impossible to ignore. I found a new one today, in the back of an old haunt. We stopped at…
