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  • Fighting Snow-On-The-Mountain
    Posted on Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 | Tagged: sin, snow on the mountain, weeds

    Heb 12:15 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.   Crawling on hands and knees, I curse (quite Christianly) the ground cover I once thought innocuous. The former owner of my home had planted it in the garden, …[ read more ]

  • Wear Red: The Color of Pentecost
    Posted on Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | Tagged: Feast of the Harvest, Feast of Weeks, Feasts of Israel, Pentecost

    A typical Western image of the Pentecost. Duccio di Buoninsegna (1308) Tempera on wood (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Fifty days after Easter comes the feast of Pentecost . For the Hebrews, this is the Feast of Weeks or the Feast of the Harvest. Although Israelites planted both wheat and barley at the same time, barley matured more quickly, and the Israelites reaped …[ read more ]

  • Good Grief
    Posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | Tagged: Ecclesiastes 7, Grief, sorrow

    Good Grief (Photo credit: Camps ) It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart …[ read more ]

  • Beauty Like a Goose: Ps 139:14
    Posted on Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Tagged: geese, individuality, Ps 139: 14

    I thank you, High God — you’re breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration — what a creation! (Ps 139:14, THE MESSAGE) Geese. Flocks of them vee overhead and awe us with their magnitude. Here in Malone, they congregate at the local pond, sometimes making the water appear to be …[ read more ]

  • The Woes of Peter Pumpkin Eater’s Wife
    Posted on Sunday, March 18th, 2012 | Tagged: equality with greatness., humor, looks

    Image via Wikipedia      I married Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater. Unbeknownst to me, my husband stuck me in a pumpkin shell. Now all my summer clothes stretch around a rotund tummy (barely), and I’m not sure if I should walk or roll down the road.     As I waddle, my proboscis heralds my approach with the bright …[ read more ]

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        @carol_mcclain "Don't be drunk with wine, be filled with the Spirit!" 1 Cor.5:18 According to John Piper, how do we get drunk with wine? We drink it. Lots of it. So how do we get drunk with the Holy Spirit? Immerse yourself in God. Drink in lots of Him. Read your Scriptures. Pray. Sing Psalms and hymns and contemporary Christian music. Listen to edifying Christian stations. Avoid our entertainment that celebrates sinful behavior--alcohol, sex, foul language. Hang out with practicing, like-minded Christians. Go to church. Take notes on the sermon. Look around this world and see the glory God… ...[ full story ]

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