We’ve had Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling: A 365 Day Journaling Devotional for some time and it has been great. My wife would even read it to the kids much of the time. When we saw the devotional coming out for children, we had to jump on that. Jesus Calling: 365 Devotions For Kids is not going to disappoint. The Scripture readings and references between the original (older folks) version and [...]
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Excellent, profound quote from Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited.
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The Least Among You was inspired by the story of Richard Kelly shortly after the Watts riots in the 60′s. Kelly, as part of his probation, entered an all white seminary and was quickly thrust into the activity of change and integration. While there is a great story underneath, the movie never brought it out. We were treated to a fairly poor Hallmark-esque depiction of the trials and struggles and [...]
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I saw someone else throw out their future reading list and thought I would put on (virtual) paper the books that plan and hope to read between now and the Summer. Some of these are contingent on my actually obtaining a copy of the text mentioned, but a boy can hope. Currently Reading: Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus by Ched Myers. The Politics [...]
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Ephesians 6:10-12 (NLT) “A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil. For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil spirits in the heavenly places.” I have been going through a study of Ephesians with a wonderful group of women in our [...]
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Muhsin Khan And when it is said to them: “Prostrate to the Most Beneficent (Allah)! They say: “And what is the Most Beneficent? Shall we fall down in prostration to that which you (O Muhammad SAW) command us?” And it increases in them only aversion. Blessed be He Who has placed in the heaven big stars, and has placed therein a great lamp (sun), and a moon giving light. And [...]
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When my husband told me we would be receiving this book to review I was very excited and this book did not let me down. It had me from the very first page. In fact, I started it in the evening, read until 1:30 in the morning, got up at 6:30am to read some more and finished it by about 10am. It was that good. Let me give you a [...]
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