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Sermon on the Mount …on the farm {a video} {link-up}
{Consider pausing the music by clicking the slider directly under the header? And if reading in a reader or via email – click here to go for a walk in the woods on the farm… } Martyn Lloyd-Jones on...
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This is Who You Are — Right Where You Are {Sermon on the Mount} {Video}...
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weekends are for your life {video} {Sermon on the Mount}
{Consider pausing music by clicking the slider directly under the header? If reading in a reader or via email, click here to view a less than word-perfect but heartfelt recitation before a candle here...
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What Happens if You Really Believe… {Come to the Farm on Friday: Sermon on...
Come to the farm on Friday? Mount the Mount with us? Consider the words of Jesus’s upending, uprighting Sermon … And come be the lamb that knows the Shepherd’s voice… the chick that tucks safe under...
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The 1 Habit God Really Wants for Your New Year {The Romans Project}
For all of 2012? I carry around the Mount and it moves mountains. And there isn’t a bone in me that wants to come down from where He transfigures. A year of memorizing Sermon on the Mount, the 111...
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Even in the Bleak Midwinter, the Hope of Spring
So.. (!) Liz Curtis Higgs took me under her gorgeous proverbial wing last year when this knee-knocking farm girl said yes to God & sharing what He’s done in my life at several Women of Faith...
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The Sister Promise: What We make to Our Sisters *Updated with Video
It was after the brownies, when I’m dabbing up the calorie crumbs, that she just spills this confession like the folds of some priestly robes. She says she’s damaged him. As if you can throw a kid a...
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The Big Reveal: What Faith is, from First to Last
So…(!) since one of the kids sprained an ankle while serving here at Mission of Hope Haiti, we’ll catch up here again tomorrow with a Haiti family missions trip post, and let Liz Curtis Higgs , my...
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How to Make This Month Amazing {Video}
What you know by heart — is what your heart really knows. And the crazy things is, right at the first of the month: what the heart knows by heart is all that can calm a heart. Direct a heart....
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The 1 Thing Radical Really Definitely Has to Look Like — Right Where We Are
No one just straight up tells you that the things you’ve seen — become what you see. That you’ll close your eyes a thousand nights from now and it will all be real again — where you were and what they...
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How to Get through Life’s Hard Parts (Video)
When the notes keep coming out all wrong, Hope looks up from the piano. “Is that what she said? Didn’t she say play only the left?” Yeah, that’s what she’d said, I had heard her — that willowy piano...
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Scripture Memorization for the Rest of Us: The Jesus Project...
When in Rome… yeah, that…. When in Rome, do as the Romans. 2013 was this slippery year of that — living in Romans, doing as Romans. The Farmer and I would crawl into bed, bone tired and hurting, lay...
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The #1 Organizing Secret that No One Tells You — That Can Change Everyone’s Life
Just after midnight, I’m standing there in the kitchen swigging back a bit of a bottle. The house that looks like a stampede of wild horses had rode through mad sometime after dinner. I have no idea...
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Only the Good Stuff: Sharing the Joy this Weekend
Golden hour across the world – stunning photos “Ask God to help you let your light shine.” Just nothing less than amazing in this post “We hope one day our expectations of her, as a society, are more...
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How to Get Through Snowmaggedon & Everything Else that’s Burying You
‘Look, the only guys that watch the radar like this are the guys who fly.” “And the guys who farm.” Yeah, okay, I’ll give you that — I nudge him — farmers and the flying guys always watching the sky....
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The 5 Words Guaranteed to Change Your Life: #DWHTY [#JesusProject 5]
Somebody sure got old Marjorie Knight’s name plain wrong. I’m the geeky toothpick-kid from one farm over. Standing there in Miss Marjorie’s aged kitchen smelling of wood stove and rising bread, and you...
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The One Big Question Today is Really Asking You [And Your Answer Changes Your...
So the plumber guy says he won’t have time to get the mudroom sink in today. The pipes, yeah, he can do that — but not the sink. Says he’s got church, got to be there at 10:30 or thereabouts. The...
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Why You Need the Unlikely Principle of Ruby Worship [#TheJesusProject]
as our ongoing Wednesday unpacking of #TheJesusProject…. today: John 4:23-24 of #TheJesusProject Yeah, my Daddy might say otherwise, but we all got altars. His own daddy gave him this ring, a busted...
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Why You Really Have to Keep Falling in Love
Stay in love. I tell the girl that in a hardly voice, the kind of voice that comes from a primal place. Though, truth be told, she tells me she doesn’t know if she had ever found that love place in the...
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Dear Weary & Overwhelmed Church, Parent, Kid [#JesusProject: Set #2 of 24...
So they all will tell you that they’ve got all the answers, their loud headlines and swaggering words and studies done by men in ties. But what matters is unwrapping the hushed answer, the Word to all...
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