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November 14, 2011

More Hope for the Hopeless

Last week I devoted my Music Monday post to a playlist of “music that is particularly helpful to people who are in less than hopeful situations.” I ran out of time to create a complete list of my favorite encouraging songs, so today I’m posting...

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November 8, 2011

Fewer versus Less – Thoughts of a Grammar Geek

I know today is Tuesday, and normally I would have posted My Tuesday Three, but I had a thought yesterday that I wanted to share. I love words, love to write, and love to read. I also love words in music. I can tend to...

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November 2, 2011

The Power of Music

Anyone who has read much of my blog knows that I love music. I’ve devoted my Monday posts to music topics and many other days end up including a music component, too. Music can lift my spirits, give me encouragement, and get me moving when...

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November 1, 2011

Forgiven – My Tuesday Three

My Tuesday Three today is sort of a bonus Music Monday because I want to share three songs that all have the same title – Forgiven – by three very different bands. I love the knowledge that I am forgiven because of Christ and so...

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October 31, 2011

Way Down in the Hole

Last Saturday I went out with a friend for her birthday. The band (actually it was just two guys with guitars) was really good and played an interesting variety of songs. My friend knew the band and mentioned that one of the guys plays in...

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October 30, 2011

Psalm 28 – A Mighty Fortress

Going in order of Psalms I’ve not posted before, we come to Psalm 27. I have posted a few verses of this Psalm as parts of other posts, but never the whole Psalm for Psalm Sunday. I think it is an appropriate Psalm for today,...

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October 17, 2011

A Life of Redemption and Grace

My favorite musical artist of all time is Johnny Cash. There are only a handful of his songs that I don’t like. Of course, I love all the gospel music he recorded. But I also love everything from Cry, Cry, Cry to Cocaine to T...

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October 9, 2011

Psalm 63 – Shadow of Your Wings

The other day one of my fellow bloggers posted part of Psalm 63 on Facebook, and it reminded me of the song by Casting Crowns called “Shadow of Your Wings,” which is based on that Psalm. So I decided for Psalm Sunday this week I...

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September 17, 2011

Trains, by Johnny – A Poem

The poetry prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today was to write a poem involving trai_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_s. I immediately thought of the song “Down there by the Train” by Johnny Cash, and then I remembered several other songs by Johnny that involved trains. Some are well-known songs,...

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