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A Tea Party
Last year, a tornado – “the” tornado – destroyed Alberta Baptist Church’s building. Open Door Baptist (my church) has been sharing a building with them ever since. While we have not combined our church families, we have been doing more and more together as time has gone on. Our children and youth groups do a…
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Thankful Thursday
(Click image for full screen download) Giving thanks today for ~ sweet, juicy cantaloupe ~ ~ trustworthy doctors and medicine ~ ~ an encouraging husband ~ ~ a messy house to clean ~ ~ a big family ~ ~ the comfort of God’s Spirit ~ ~ a verdant spring ~
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Finding Delight — Week 9
I read Isaiah 46 this week. A short chapter, but so good and God-exalting. In this chapter, Isaiah contrasts the idols of Babylon and the One True God. The idols of Babylon, weighed out by men, then fashioned by goldsmiths, are heavy burdens transported on the backs of oxen and cattle and carried about on the…
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Finding Delight — Week 8
Earlier this week, I read Luke’s account of Jesus’ celebrating the Passover with his disciples. Luke 22:15-16 reads, “And he said to them, ‘I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.’” Those…
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Good bloggers frown upon those who take an unannounced, month-long break without asking another blogger to host her carnival. Remember the good old days when blogging was new and there weren’t any rules about being a responsible blogger? Now we have blogs about blogging. I’m going to live on the blogging edge (and use a…
Leslie Wiggins 