June 13, 2011

My Desire Is to Know God’s Purpose

I’ve been listening to Jeremy Camp in my car this past week, and one song in particular spoke to me. “My Desire” expresses how I feel about my life and my God. I want my life to be real. I want to set aside all...

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June 12, 2011

Psalm 25 – Of Mercy and Humility

Since I’ve been thinking a lot about mercy and humility lately, I decided to do a Biblegateway search for a Psalm about this topic to post today. Not surprisingly, my search for “humble” in the Psalms returned a number of verses. I settled on Psalm 25...

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June 11, 2011

“Every Day Deserves a Chance” – A Book Review

I had planned to do more book reviews this year, because I have so many great Christian books in my collection that I would love to share with all of you. Since it’s been a while since I wrote a book review, I decided it...

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June 10, 2011

My Weight Loss Efforts for Recipe Friday

For the past few weeks I have been changing my eating habits to try to lose some weight. So far it’s working pretty good. But as a result, I haven’t made a whole lot of new things that could be used for a Recipe Friday post....

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June 9, 2011

Mercy – A Poem

Thankfulness and gratitude are easy when things are going great. But what about when life seems overwhelming and nothing goes as planned? What about the difficult days when you can’t seem to do the right thing, or have the right attitude, or pray the right...

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June 7, 2011

C.S. Lewis and My Tuesday Three

I know it has only been a few weeks since I started the “My Tuesday Three” theme, but I’m already discovering that it is much more difficult than I imagined. It seems as though I must be more focused on seeing the “three” posts throughout...

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June 5, 2011

Psalm 123 – Humbly Relying on God

To determine what Psalm to post this week, I decided to actually open up my NIV Study Bible and read a few until one seemed right. I settled on Psalm 123 because it fit with the ideas of humility and reliance on God that I have been pondering...

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June 4, 2011

New Books, a New Word, and a Lesson on Humility from Jeremiah

For my birthday, my in-laws sent me $20, so I decided to get some new books. Not that I need any new books, mind you, because I have quite a few that I haven’t read yet. But I was at the Cedar Hills Mall with...

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