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Just for Giggles

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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Pay It Forward

Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Since I’m having kind of a dry spell of blogging here anyway…
My friend Kathryn Trent Brown offered the following challenge in Facebook note, which I’m passing on here to you.
If you want to join in the fun and get a little something in return … be one of the first THREE people to leave a [...]

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Collection

Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m a hopeless collector of words.  So I’ve started a new “commonplace book” called locus communis as a place to keep and categorize them all.
Contributions will be happily considered, especially if they have source references cited, which most of my collection so far doesn’t

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Ruskin on “teaching taste”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on January 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »

“What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character.”   John Ruskin

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You gotta love those blogger book give-aways!

Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »

And I’m not above taking the bait for THIS pile of good ones.
(Plus, the blog would have made it to the “Folks Who Caught My Eye” category anyway…)
Check it out! (Or maybe not, since I’ll have a better chance of winning that way!)
(H.T. Finding Grace)

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The Collect for Friday, Morning Prayer

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.  [...]

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Francis Schaeffer and Prayer

Posted in Belief, Christianity, Covenant Theological Seminary, Francis Schaeffer, Prayer, Uncategorized on March 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I’m taking a class right now, through Covenant Theological Seminary, on the life of Francis Schaeffer.  Prayer characterized the life of the Schaeffers and their work at L’Abri, and I’ve been thinking about how their model of submitting everything to God in prayer can challenge us, both as individuals and corporately as the body of [...]

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Patience To Live

Posted in Assurance, Christianity, Death, Doubt, John Flavel, Patience, Religion, Uncategorized on March 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »

“Most men need patience to die, but a saint who understands what death admits him to should rather need patience to live. I think he should often look out and listen on a deathbed for his Lord’s coming; and when he receives the news of his approaching change he should say, ‘The voice of my [...]

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