Learn to Read Your Bible and Enjoy It I have not always loved reading the Bible, but that was not entirely my fault. Growing up in the church, I learned a lot of things about my Bible, rules about how long I should read it, how often I should read it and that questioning it was WRONG, wrong …
Last year I read a book with my church that challenged me to think differently about my space and my time in relation to my neighbors. I talked about it in my year-end book review. The title of the book is The Gospel Comes With A House Key by Rosaria Butterfield. It is a book of …
In 2017 our book club was falling apart and we had to change the way we did things to make it easier to read and discuss. We started that year by picking all our books and scheduling our monthly meetings all at once at one glorious dinner and we have not looked back. It is …
As I finished each book on our book club list in 2018, I was inspired to write a prayer of gratitude and response to each one. I shared it with my book club as a benediction to our year of reading and now I share it with you. Each verse corresponds to a book …
As I started to think about my 2018 reader’s review, I saw a post on Facebook that a book blogger and podcaster read something like 200 books last year and I thought, “I’ll never catch up to that.” 200 books is like three or four years of reading for me. I asked my Facebook friends …
I took C.S. Lewis’ Reflection on the Psalms on our trip to Key West, Florida. We had been consumed with the tumult and tragedy of foster care for the months preceding and I was struggling with the reality that people who claim to follow Christ did not actually seem to know the first thing about Christ. …
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