“If today isn’t a thanksgiving day for me,
I need to adopt gratefulness
as a statement of faith.”
-Mark Roth
I need to adopt gratefulness
as a statement of faith.”
-Mark Roth
Another short post: Thank you, Lord.
And this on Twitter: Read it all
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A Heart Caressed
I stood at our dining table not that long ago this evening, droopy of eye and droopy of spirit.
Scanning the table for something different, I saw it: a little, dark blue, hardcover book. Daily Strength for Daily Needs, declares the gold print on the spine.
I opened it randomly. Oh, hey! A day-by-day devotional book. And what, pray tell, might I find for today? Read it all
Blinders: Politics and Ideology
I saw them on my Facebook Newsfeed this morning. Again. 🙄
My early morning mission there was to promote the Sunday School commentaries I had just posted elsewhere online:
And there was the blinding evidence of blinders again. Or something like that. Read it all
My First eBook Is Done
I have finished Panting, my very first ebook.
Presently, it is available only as a downloadable pdf. I anticipate having an Amazon Kindle version ready by the end of the week at the latest.
In the introduction to the book, I include these paragraphs: Read it all
Choose: Self-Pity or Thanksgiving
Self-pity is one of several self- things from which I ask God to deliver me.
Strangely enough, though, I don’t remember considering that a thankful spirit sweeps away a “negatively self-focused” spirit. Oh, sure, I’ve known (and even taught!) that gratefulness can lift us out of depression and discouragement. But, somehow, I must have missed what being thankful can do to kill being self-pitying.
Then I read Andrée’s piece Read it all
Help Me Title My New Book!
Six weeks ago, I alerted several thousand readers to A Vision for Fall Quarter 2012.
I am slowly converting that vision into a 52-page book, with two equal-length sections:
- A Living Faith
- The Beginnings of the Church
What do you suggest for a title for such a book? Read it all
With Good Will Doing Service
Whether I serve God or whether I serve others — how much difference is there, anyway?! — I’m to do it “heartily” and “from the heart.”
And “with good will”!
That impressed me in my pre-bedtime reading Tuesday evening. I was going to be sure Read it all