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The “Valley of Vision” Bandwagon
I have jumped on it. Halim had told me about this book a while back and recently I’ve heard others mention it and my friend, Becca, has been blogging about it. Valley of Vision is a collection of Puritan prayers. I thought it would be good to pick it up as an encouragement during this [...]
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Prayer Cards
I blogged recently about the book, “A Praying Life” that has made a big impact on me. One of the strategies that the author, Paul Miller, recommended was to create prayer cards. Paul is totally speaking my language: give me notecards, categories, a mechanical pencil and an index card box and I am a happy [...]
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A Praying Life
I read this book for two reasons: 1) I want to have a praying life and 2) Halim was reading it and I seem to enjoy taking books he is reading and finishing them before he can and then telling him all about them. I doubt he enjoys this as much as I do.
I highly [...]
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Absurdities
Today I was reading about Samson and how he slew 1000 Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey. I thought to myself -Wow. That sounds pretty absurd. And then I was struck by the thought that the Bible is full of lots of things that seem absurd:
A worldwide flood in which only 8 people and [...]
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The Smackdown
I was reading Judges 4 today and verse 3 says, “Then the people of the Lord of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for [Sisera] had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.” The first thoughts that jumped to my mind were “Really? 20 years? [...]
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