• Relationships & Peacemaking

    Best enews yet!

    If you don’t already subscribe to the free e-publications from Peacemaker Ministries, I encourage you to sign up today! (And not just because my cutie-bear husband oversees them!) Today’s enews was the best issue to date–and if you didn’t already read it, I hope you’ll sign up today! Peacemaker Ministries NEVER gives your email address to ANYONE. Ever. (So you don’t have to afraid of SPAM. Blech.) And no, I don’t get any kind of referral fee or anything … I just really think you’ll be blessed.   🙂 Happy, Blessed Tuesday to you! Love, Tara B.  

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    Quote of the Day

    Taking a cue from our brilliant, godly, and fun friend, PalmTree Pundit, I would like to offer my first “quote of the day” … Taken from a Wendy Alsup essay on “The Ideal Christian Woman”: “First of all, “godliest” is a bad label. It implies we determine our godliness by comparing ourselves to others. “She’s godlier than that other lady, so that makes her the godliest.” Wrong! Christ is our standard of perfection, and we all fall short of His glory. The best analogy I’ve heard is that it is like someone standing on a sheet of paper and claiming to be closer to the sun. When we try to…

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    My Camera Broke! (And yet, here are more pics …)

    Can you believe that my camera broke this weekend! Right as I was in the most “boy it’d be great to have photos of THIS” times! Oh well. It was just the screen, so I continued to take pics by looking through that tiny little HOLE in the upper left corner. (I didn’t even know cameras had those any more!) I was hoping that maybe the camera brains were working still … AND THEY WERE! Anyway anyway … we had a really nice family Sabbath enjoying a gorgeous autumn day and I thought some of you might enjoy the pics. (I assume that all of these family photos really BUG…

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    Wow! The entire DesiringGod Conference is Available for Free!

    Wow! I just found out (HT: Randy Alcorn’s blog!) that the ENTIRE DesiringGod Conference is available FOR FREE online–videos, audios, the whole bit. I encourage you to check it out–I truly thank God for the ministry of John Piper and the entire DesiringGod team. Their website is absolutely AMAZING. Whenever I want to research a topic, I always stop there and mine through their sermons, articles, etc.   Happy Monday– Tara B.  

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    Revelation 21!

    I was reviewing my sermon notes from last Sunday when Pastor Andy Selle preached a powerful sermon from Revelation 21 and I just HAD to mention just one quote from the very end of his sermon … (He was reminding us of how the Heavenly Order has broken into and IS breaking into the TURMOIL of life and ONE DAY The Bride will be ready and we will see our fellow Believers in That Light … so we can be HONEST SINNERS NOW without any pretension or disillusionment …) “And on that Great Day–when the worlds BURN … our words of forgiveness, love, kindness, forbearing, dying to self … will…

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    What does it mean …

    So … What does it mean when your personality type is shared by only .5% (!!) of the female population?!? Yup. I’m (apparently), an “INTJ.” Hmmmmmmmmmm … what about you? Take This Test and Find Out!   (HT Christina Scheller!) (& HT Nikki too!)  

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    Made it home …

    Made it home yesterday (with only a few air-travel “challenges” … one of which routed me through Chicago for like 15 minutes — which was NOT on my original itinerary 🙂 ) … So much to share! But I must run now to get ready to teach our 3 & 4 year-olds at church (and then pick up a friend and then it’s ballet and then serving Fred as he leads our small group tonight) … Back into domestic diva Tara mode! My brain is going, “SCREEEEEEEEEEEECH! Change gears.” as I zoom around that mental corner back into my “real” life here at home. Oooh–reminds me of one of my…