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Stuck in Chicago due to SNOW
Almost made it home today!! But Chicago is supposed to get 11 inches of snow in the next twelve hours … so … NOPE. Flights are being canceled and I am prepping for another day serving (and enjoying!) my family here in the wonderful windy city. Hope you are all doing well! Sending you my love– Yours, t
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Carefulness in Treating Sin
HT: 9MarksBlog for directing me to this great post (and book recommendation): Carefulness in Treating Sin The author of the blog is a MBB who pastors a church in the Grand Cayman Islands. Definitely worth the read–and I’m thinking I’d like to pop on over to WTS and order the book too.
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To give you a little update …
Some of you long-time readers may have noticed that I’ve been posting more links and less “personal” blogs lately. I just wanted to give you all a little explanation as to why … After I finished serving at the women’s conference in Chicago this past weekend, I stayed on in Illinois to help a family member who is going through a bit of a medical emergency. It is an honor to serve and I’m so glad to be here helping. But we’re headed toward day seven of being away from Fred, Sophia, and Lilikoi … and of course, these situations are always stressful because people we care about are in…
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Series by (former SoloFemininity) “Radical Womanhood”
Wow! Carolyn McCulley has started a new series over at Radical Womanhood (“because being a biblical woman in a modern world is a radical act”): Practical Issues for Godly Women Today’s installment was on elder care (I was JUST talking about that very topic a few nights ago!) and yesterday’s was on “Is Homemaking the Only Priority” (a topic I’m asked about ALL the time of course). Don’t miss it this series! (And thanks, Carolyn, for pointing us all to Christ and helping us to remember (and live out!) the gospel in our daily lives!)
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Pain Does Its Work (HT: Ajith Fernando!)
I believe that I may have already posted this (in 2005?) … but it’s been awhile, so I hope this blesses you! Boy! This life is truly “nothing but a constant death.” Thank God for theologian and Youth for Christ missionary, Ajith Fernando! And his wisdom that points us to Christ. Blessed, blessed Sabbath to you all! It’s 1:20AM (Chicago-time) and I’m headed to bed. Well, soon, I hope to be headed to bed. Love and blessings! And enjoy– (HT, Ajith!) Yours, Tara B. PAIN DOES ITS WORK, AND GRACE TAKES OVER Written by Ajith Fernando while traveling abroad I left home on a trip abroad feeling very discouraged and…
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CCEF Article on “The Therapeutic Gospel”
Yesterday I promised to post a few notes from the AMAZING issue of CCEF’s Summer 2007 Journal of Biblical Counseling. I could write many words about every single article, but instead I’ll just start with the editor’s article, The Therapeutic Gospel (by Dr. David Powlison). Truly. You should read this article! It’s amazing. Dr. Powlison starts out be quoting the scene in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (yet another classic that I REALLY need to just SLOW DOWN and FINISH one of these days) when (fictionally!) Jesus returns to sixteenth century Spain and the “church authorities” decide to meet the “felt needs” of the people rather than “calling forth the high,…
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Hello Indiana! (& What’s the Scoop??)
Hi from Chicago! I’m happily ensconced in the FRIGID Illinois winter and looking very forward to serving at my Chicago event starting tomorrow night. But first I wanted to say a HELLO to any women from Indiana who might be reading this! Also … I’m wondering if any of you Hoosiers would like to clue me in as to why you’re visiting??? (I know there’s SOME sort of Indiana connection because I’ve had like FIVE orders from my website today–all from Indiana–and honestly? That’s WAY more orders than I usually have in a MONTH. So I’m curious. 😉 ) Also … re: the previous post on the J.I. Packer book…
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Stunted Ecclesiology (J.I. Packer)
At the last moment this morning, as I was leaving for the airport at around 4:45AM, I grabbed two items for potential “airplane reading” and boy! Am I glad I did. I was SO blessed on both of my flights as I read our denominational Christian Education & Publications magazine, Equip for Ministry, and as I re-read last summer’s Journal of Biblical Counseling from the The Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation. I only have a moment to write now, so I’ll save the CCEF nuggets for a later post … but I wanted to share a few excerpts from one of the CE&P articles on the doctrine of the Church.…
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Ballet Ballet!
(Mostly just testing to see if my blog will accept photos again. But enjoy little muffin ballet tater tot too!)
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Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”
Have you ever actually seen this?
