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Book Review: Walk To Beautiful

Walk To Beautiful: The Power Of Love And A Homeless Kid Who Found The Way, by Jimmy Wayne with Ken Abraham [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishers in exchange for an honest review.] It … Continue reading

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Book Review: A Widow’s Might

A Widow’s Might: The Secret Of Finding Strength In God, by Judy A. Knox [Note: This book was provided free of charge by Aneko Press in exchange for an honest book review.  A free e-book for this volume is available … Continue reading

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Book Review: Messed Up Men Of The Bible

Messed Up Men of The Bible: Seeing The Men In Your Life Through God’s Eyes, by Tina & Dave Samples [Note: This book was provided free of charge by Kregel Book Tours in exchange for an honest review.] This book … Continue reading

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It’s No Sacrifice At All

Today the gentleman who gave the sermonette said something that caught my attention in one of the most effective ways ever, by talking how a blogger went to jail for criticizing a religious tradition, in this case the Muslim tradition … Continue reading

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Some Write To Remember, Some Write To Forget

When I was reading one of my many books piled up to read while I was on a trip this weekend [1], I came to the closing words of the book and was taken aback by how deeply they resonated … Continue reading

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Has Anybody Seen All My Wasted Love?

Yesterday I was sent by a friend of mine a lovely and deeply melancholy cover version of a relatively obscure song called “Wasted Love,” by one of the successful contestants from the 2014 season of The Voice, a fellow by … Continue reading

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Between How It Is And How It Should Be

While I was up north this weekend in Tacoma [1], our retired pastor gave a sermon that two different people independently made me aware of, which makes sense since his topic was the same as my topic of a post … Continue reading

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Book Review: My Name Is Mahtob

My Name Is Mahtob, by Mahtob Mahmoody [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishing in exchange for an honest review.] This was a hard book to read, as I can perhaps too painfully relate to … Continue reading

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The Fatal Lure Of The Caper

It is hard sometimes for people to remember that war is not a game. After all, most people in our contemporary society are most aware of a personal understanding of war from games. Whether one is an armchair general with … Continue reading

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The Broken Jar

Once upon a time there was a small village, and in that village there was a boy who went out with two jars every day to the town’s well to get water. One of the jars he used was flawless … Continue reading

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