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From My Reading
“You need to be liberated. Don’t carry over experiences from the past. In fact, don’t carry over good experiences from the past either. Learn what it means to experience something fully, then drop it and move on to the next moment, uninfluenced … Continue reading
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Tagged liberation, separation, transformation, Weavings
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Being a Disrupter
Recently I heard a new business term used by Mark Cuban (one of the sharks on the TV show Shark Tank). After researching the word, I learned that it has been “current” for some time now. The term is: disruption. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Becoming like Jesus, disruption, Inward/Outward, Kayla McClurg, Mark Cuban
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My Once in a Lifetime Life – My Friendship with Bela
“My Once-in-a-Lifetime Life” is a series of occasional blogs written by Joy in reflecting on her time as a Christian missionary with three young children in the mid-2000’s. This post celebrates the friendship of two unlikely friends, a young American missionary and … Continue reading
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Tagged Communism, faberakas, friendship, Hungary, Jesse tree
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Going Deeper with God – “From Whom All Blessings Flow” (Psalm 103)
Eugene Peterson’s book “Eat this Book” teaches us to chew on a passage of scripture, digest it, and then put it to use in practical ways. Our Christian fathers and mothers called this process Lectio Divina. Psalm 103 encourages us to … Continue reading
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Tagged Praising God, Psalm 103, Working Preacher website
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Lab Girl
A journey can be an actual trip or it can be a pathway to spiritual or emotional growth. It can describe the change of a relationship, the sharing or ending of a marriage, the details of a career, the recognition of … Continue reading
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Tagged Creation Care, female scientists, geobiology. trees, Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
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People of the Lie
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to … Continue reading
“He Restores My Soul”
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul; he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake” Psalm 23: … Continue reading
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