From the category archives:

Literary

The Hook: 2/01/11

February 1, 2011

I visited Challies this morning, and got a nice heads up. Adopted For Life by Russell Moore is free this month as an audio download from ChristianAudio. It’s such a great book, and if you’ve been waiting to read it, just go get it and start listening! Awhile back I wrote about the book on [...]

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The Hook: 1/25/11

January 25, 2011

My husband recently purchased what must be his fifth copy of The Pilgrim’s Progress by  John Bunyan. I have read the book many times, too; we read it every year in elementary  school. Clara is nearly five, so we should probably read it to her sometime soon. And I  think these coloring sheets will be a [...]

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Thanksgiving Thoughts in March

March 1, 2010

via www.pilgrimhall.org     I've been researching all things winter holidays for a (possible…no, probable) set of songs to be released later this year.     The site PilgrimHall.org has a great online version of the Pilgrim story. It's been so long since I learned about the Mayflower and Governor William Bradford and Squanto an et cetera. What an amazing [...]

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The Memoir: In Brief

February 3, 2010

 Can it get any more brief? Six word memoirs are on trend. We had headlines, then status updates. Then twitter: 140 characters or less. But this? Is it too brief? I guess not. People love it. So, tell me what you’d say. Six words: your life in summation. Share |

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As the Ruin Falls by C S Lewis

January 13, 2010

All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through: I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn. Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek, I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin: I talk [...]

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Examine Yourselves

June 27, 2009

  While reading Spurgeon’s Morning By Morning this morning, I was reminded of the awful fear of hell that nearly tormented me when I was a child. I read yesterday’s entry, and in it Spurgeon speaks to the apostate professor: “Mind that back way to hell, professors!” He’s talking to those who’ve preached the Gospel in [...]

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