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Late summer I read Hala Jaber’s gripping memoir of life in Iraq called: The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: A Woman’s Fight to Save Two Orphans . If you can read this without tearing up, well, you can’t. Hala weaves together her own story, her fight with her own infertility, the devastation in Iraq, her…

Amazon’s idea — let Black Friday morph into a shopping day on Monday called CyberMonday.

Two new books on the historical Jesus might be worth your careful consideration. The first one provides the spectrum of views, the second one is a historical Jesus book by one scholar.  James Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy have produced a book for students, or for pastors who simply don’t have the time to read…

I want to open the comments on this post to those who are unemployed, or who were unemployed and who have recently found employment, to speak into the lives of others who are unemployed.  We’d like to hear your advice, your comfort, your encouragement, your hope, and your wisdom. We want this blog to be…

Advent is a word that means “coming” or “visit”.  In the Christian season of Advent we prepare for the “advent” of Christ at Christmas.  Our preparation includes many things: ? We remember Israel’s hope for the coming of God’s Messiah to save, to forgive, and to restore them. ? We remember our hope for the…

Advent is a season of waiting, expecting, and hoping.  Beginning four Sundays prior to Christmas and ending on Christmas Eve, Advent helps us to prepare for the coming, or “advent” of the Christ child at Christmas.  (The word “advent” comes from the Latin word that means “coming.”)  For hundreds of years Christians have used an…

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to…

One Sunday morning, a mother went in to wake her son and tell him it was time to get ready for church, to which he replied, “I’m not going.”  “Why not?” she asked.”I’ll give you two good reasons,” he said. “One, they don’t like me, and two, I don’t like them.”  His mother replied, “I’ll…

Tomorrow Da (once mighty) Bears play Minnesota’s (uberconfident) Vikings, and I’ve made a friendly wager with Tony Jones. If the Vikings win, I send him a Chicago style deep dish uberpizza and if Da Bears win, he sends me a pound of peace coffee. Tony’s been full of grace on this one: he’s given me…

Last week I mentioned that we want to begin doing book reviews on this blog on Saturday afternoons. Our vision for this is for “you” to write these. We hope enough folks write reviews that we can post one weekly.  So, what to do? Write me, tell me you want to write a Review and…
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