**Today’s post is by Erin Scott – John’s wife. She had the chance to write a review for Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira’s new book, Mama’s Got a Fake I.D.: How to Reveal the Real You Behind all That Mom
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A great mom’s day gift…to say, “I get that your role is tough and you’re doing great!”
So I’ve [...]
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I’d like to start a new series in the blog. One of the things the internet does well is grabbing what’s current, what’s new, and bringing it front and center for people to look at and evaluate. One of the most frequented areas is pop culture.
I like reading about pop culture and given the nice [...]
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Summer Camp.
There’s nothing more frightening to an introverted 10 year old than hearing mother say, “Let’s go! Time to get in the van & go to summer camp!”
Thankfully, that wasn’t me. I loved to go to camp! My parents would ship me off to Camp LRCA for a week every summer & I [...]
For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives. He blogs at: evotional.com
Each of us have lions that we face everyday – things/ideas/temptations that threaten to track us down and gobble up [...]
I was recently reading an account of John Wesley and his conversion experience. Now I don’t know if you want to go through the whole thing, but what most caught my attention was the portion that begins at point 13. As you read through his story it’s interesting to think about how emotion [...]
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I’ve got a great list of links for you today, ranging from super silly to super serious. Well, not really. They’re mostly just super silly. I”ve had too much serious this week, how ’bout you?
Kind of silly:
Do you have thousands of emails in your inbox? the Jesus Creeders do…
Pretty silly:
When you speculate about the identity [...]
I could take a number of angles on an article like this, but since we’re doing a series on environmental news and stewardship that’s the piece I’ll highlight. If you read to the end of the article you kind of get the sense that scientists are now convinced that global warming is indeed happening and [...]
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I love it when a little perfect storm arises. There’s been a lot of discussion about the environment in recent months due to the presidential election, recent natural disasters, rising gas prices, and so on. There has also been an increasing discussion amongst Christians concerning the environment. What kind of an environmentalist is a Christian? [...]
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As I was trying to make my pick for this week I was looking at some interesting videos and then a forward came into my box. While it came too late for me to post last Wednesday, I think you might enjoy some of these Father’s Day tribute videos posted on Godtube.
These first couple of [...]
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When I read something about this video, I checked it out right away and came away feeling a little disappointed. I had a hard time concentrating on his words while also watching the visuals. Some of it seemed kind of jerky. Some of it seemed kind of simplistic to me.
But then I watched it again. [...]
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