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Renee Johnson Blog Tour: New Daily Devotional for Young Adults Now Available
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Joan Ball
New author Renee Johnson and I have communicated through social networks and by telephone. She is at once enthusiastic and complex in her pursuit of her passion for writing and speaking and her desire to understand the challenges of balancing the promises of the Christian faith with the challenges of day-to-day life. Her first book,…
Patience, Tolerance and Lent: Giving Up the Right to be Right
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Joan Ball
So last year was the first time I tried to practice lent. I wish I could say it was a wonderful and spiritually enlightening experience, but I have to admit that I failed not once, but twice to stick to a 40 day focus on lenten sacrifice. I don’t belong to a faith community that…
What if the Money Spent on This Year’s Superbowl Went to Helping People?
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Joan Ball
As people across the nation prepare to spend this evening eating, drinking and consuming millions of dollars in television advertisements before, during and after the Super Bowl, this story of a family in Atlanta offers a contrasting view of how American affluence might be used more productively… Watch CBS News Videos Online
True Confessions: (Finally) Coming Clean on My Dirty Little Secret…
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Joan Ball
Got home from the hospital last night following an unexpected three day stay that included lots of tests and a few odd physical episodes of unknown origin that quacked like seizures but didn’t quite walk like them. I will spare you the details of prodding, poking and monitoring. Suffice it to say that I feel…
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