Grace and peace to you today. Today’s Kindle deals include a nice little list of titles from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: We Always Glean Among the Sheaves) When Mom Forgot Me “‘Where do you live?’ she asked. Wind whipped her white curls into a crown around her head against a blur of golden wheat fields as we sailed along the dirt road. I glanced her way. She sat slightly hunched in the passenger seat. We’d been catching up while …
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Ruth needed help. Ruth needed help, and in his mercy God provided for her need. He provided it first through the laws of his land which instructed landowners that when they harvested grain, they were not to reap all the way to the edges of their fields and were not to pick up any bits their harvesters had dropped along the way. Instead, all of this was to be left for the poor and the foreigners who were to experience …
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The God of peace be with you today. This week Westminster Books has a deal on Michael Kruger’s book Surviving Religion 101. When Adoption Comes Full Circle Don’t miss this neat account of an adoption come full circle. “She found me a few years back through Facebook, approaching with respect and grace. We reached out tentatively at first, then forged a sisterhood nurtured by a gradual opening of hearts around the shared love of a precious baby, now grown.” Where …
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Good morning! The Lord be with you today. I only dug up a couple of Kindle deals, but will look again in the morning. (Yesterday on the blog: A Family Update, Six Months Later) I Could Never Do That This is a good insight from Amy Medina, and one that probably applies to each of us in different ways. “The truth is, sometimes we say, I can’t when really what we mean is I won’t. It just feels so much better–to …
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This week the blog is sponsored by The Good Book Company, which publishes biblical, relevant, and accessible resources like those recommended below. The Christian life is sometimes pictured as running a race. Hebrews 12:1, for example, exhorts us: “Let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” Following Jesus requires discipline, endurance, and perseverance. But so often we’re weighed down by our own …
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