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March 2, 2011

Jumping from a Plane: I Can Do All Things Through Christ

In 1998 I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane. Well, at least the skydiving company told me it was a perfectly good airplane, but once we left the ground and headed for 10,000 ft elevation, I started to have my doubts. It was a...

Categories Music Comments: 12
March 1, 2011

Finding God in Grief and Trials

I’ve recently finished reading A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis. I was quite surprised by how quickly I was able to get through its 76 pages plus Foreword and Introduction. Usually Lewis requires one to re-read numerous paragraphs to fully grasp just exactly what it...

Categories Christian Living Comments: 5
February 28, 2011

Music Monday Extra – The Generous Mr. Lovewell

I thought I would share just one more song from MercyMe’s CD The Generous Mr. Lovewell. It’s the title song and is a great up-beat song that is bound to make you feel good. This song always reminds me of both my husband and my...

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February 28, 2011

The Veil Was Torn!

MercyMe is coming to Portland next Sunday, and I am hoping to go, so I’ve been listening to their most recent CD in the car this past week. It’s called The Generous Mr. Lovewell. I’ve written several posts about some of the songs on this...

Categories Christian Living Comments: 10
February 27, 2011

Psalm 150 – Praise the Lord

The title of this post really says it all; it completely sums up Psalm 150. I love how this final Psalm in this awesome book of the Bible sums up the entire book as well. Though there have been laments and complaints to God throughout...

Categories Music/Poetry/Psalms Comments: 10
February 24, 2011

Satisfied – A Poem

Mick Jagger sang “I can’t get no satisfaction.” What a sad way to live, but many people do live like that. Some people, no matter how much they have, are never satisfied and always strive for more. I much prefer Johnny Cash’s “A Satisfied Mind,”  knowing that...

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February 23, 2011

Mercy Is Not for the Deserving, It’s for Us

Johnny Cash recorded a song, originally written by Nick Cave, called “The Mercy Seat.” It is a powerful song about a man on death row. There is no indication of what his crime is or what evidence there was against him. Throughout the song he repeatedly...

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February 22, 2011

When Faith Is About Me

The other day I was perusing my prayer journal and came across an entry that I had previously marked with a post-it note as something that would make a good blog entry some day. I reread the entry, but decided it wasn’t quite ready for...

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February 20, 2011

Psalm 5 – A Prayer

Several years ago I bought a book called The Psalms for Prayer, compiled by T.M. Moore. It includes a great introduction about using the Psalms as part of your prayer life. The bulk of the book is the entire Psalms in the New King James Version....

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