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First of all, GOTW stands for Giveaway Of The Week. Call me lazy because I don’t feel like typing it all, or call me ambitious because the acronym suggests that I will, indeed, persevere in offering a giveaway every week. I recommend the latter, because I never said the giveaways would be random. You do [...]
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Today I was reading the book of James to Rachael, who is almost 4. I don’t remember what prompted the question, but she stopped me to ask if we could see God. I thought of the Catechism for Young Children: God is a spirit and has not a body as we do. I told her [...]
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This drawing is closed. The winner, chosen by the Random Integer Generator at Random.org, is Mrs. Klause. Thanks to everyone who entered!
The delightful Serven family of the Genevan Foundation has released 2 new CDs! We have used and enjoyed their first 2 albums on learning to sing the Psalms in 4 part [...]
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I finished reading Malachi just a few minutes ago and added a small note at the end:
5/19/08 Finished OT!
Based on my old note just above the new one, I noticed that it has been exactly a year (to the day!) since I finished the OT last time. This tickles me for some incomprehensible reason. [...]
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This was from our responsive reading in church this morning. The minister read the bold, and the congregation responded by reading the regular print. Maybe you know this already - the statements in bold type are the 10 commandments as quoted from the Old Testament, while the responses are Christ’s words from the [...]
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I don’t know history. At least, not as well as I should. As I read through Psalms, I have to conclude that we let ourselves off the hook far too easily. If we know the names and some of the major accomplishments of the founding fathers of our nations; if we know [...]
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Sometimes pregnancy hormones can be embarrassing. I’m sure you know what I mean. As I was reading my Bible this morning, I heard the movie Elf playing in the other room. Let’s not get sidetracked. That’s not a normal thing for me to be hearing on a weekday morning, but there was a good reason [...]
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This is the perfect time to say this…..
Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New year!!
Christmas is not about presents. It’s celebrating Jesus being born. It’s celebrating the gift GOD has given to us. Matthew 2…
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to [...]
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I’m hoping you already knew this, but we run a little business on the side. We sell original, authentic 400 year old pages from old Geneva Bibles (if you’re horrified, read this). We offer them framed, matted, or sleeved. Damaged pages are available as inexpensive bookmarks. Incidentally, we provide the framed Bible pages that are [...]
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We just spent the last 30 minutes playing a little game with the “search inside this book” Amazon feature of The Bible in Verse by Alvy Ford.
This book has a simple 4 line poem for each and every chapter of the Bible. I first heard about it from Arnold Pent, author of Ten P’s [...]
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From Wikipedia:
Patriarchy describes the structuring of society on the basis of family units, in which fathers have primary responsibility for the welfare of these units. In some cultures slaves were included as part of such households. The concept of patriarchy is often used, by extension, to refer to the expectation that men take primary responsibility [...]
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Today I read Ruth. It was just 4 chapters, so I read the whole book. It was a familiar story, but one thing struck me as never before: The Lord (YWHW) receives credit for everything. He brought food to His people after the famine (1:6), He afflicted Naomi (1:13), He gave conception [...]
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Marci shared a link to a video on her blog that is destined to be quoted in our house for decades to come. My kids are cute and I’m pretty fond of them, but I could almost trade in all 8 of them for the little munchkin in the video. She’s that cute.Sorry, [...]
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