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Blessed Veterans Day (& Please remember to pray for our troops and their families!)
Blessed Veterans Day to all of our veterans! Please take a minute or two to read AND PRAY THROUGH this excellent post. It’s a great guide to pray for our troops and their families. Gratefully, Tara B.
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If only I had known …
I could have avoided SO many conflicts and better communicated my (GENUINE!) love for people if ONLY I had known this in my 20’s: (Wow. That’s a LOT of wisdom, eh?) Oh–and did you know that John Piper is also an INTJ? “INTJs are usually difficult to get to know well, and difficult to get close to.” Yup. That’s me. Difficult. But I would’ve been a little LESS difficult if back THEN I knew 1/100th of what I know now and 1/1,000,000th of what John Piper has forgotten in his lifetime. Hope your Monday is going well– Yours, Tara B. (HT: TakeYourVitaminZ!)
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Hope we put this in our chapter on shame …
I can’t remember if we included it or not–but I sure hope that we have Isaiah 62 in our chapter on “shame” (in Peacemaking Women). I was re-reading it again this weekend, praying it for myself, for our church, for The Church, for a friend–and I was struck by just how much this passage of scripture emphasizes the aspects of the gospel that speak directly to our temptation to ungodly shame: – A new name that the Lord bestows. – A crown of beauty, glorious. – No longer Forsaken and Desolate because now? The Lord’s Delight is in Her. – Sought Out. A City No Longer Forsaken. I don’t know…
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Creating Communities of Grace (HT: Tim Chester)
Don’t miss this rich post by Tim Chester: Creating Communities of Grace Let me tempt you with just a snippet: “(1) Make the connections … (2) Welcome the mess: Welcome messy communities. Welcome messy people. Obviously you’ll want them to change, to become more like Jesus, to be set free from their slaveries. But don’t make your welcome dependent on change. Don’t suppress conflict. Don’t hide problems. (3) Stop pretending … (4) Stop performing … (5) Eat and drink with broken people … (6) Give people time to change: I think there are some tensions and questions here, but we need to give people time to change. How long…
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Mark Your Calendars and Check Back on Thursday! I’m going to try to LIVE BLOG the CCEF Conference
No promises because there are simply too many things that are beyond my control (will I have a live wi-fi connection? will my old laptop die a sad technological death between now and Thursday?) … But assuming that all goes well, I am going to do my very best to LIVE BLOG the CCEF Annual Conference (Thursday 11/13 – Sunday 11/16). Please be sure to check back and participate! (You can post questions to me AS I live blog and Fred is going to try to snap a few photos so that you can get a “feel” for the venue.) CCEF has graciously given me permission to do everything except…
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About to practice LIVE BLOGGING …
Hey everyone! (All, you know, FIVE of you who might click onto this blog on a Saturday afternoon …) Fred is trying to teach me how to LIVE BLOG and we’re going to try it out RIGHT NOW. So if things seem goofy, please bear with us. Oh, and if you want to join in the fun (or whatever options the software gives you), please do! OK. Here we go. About to try to live blog our lazy Saturday afternoon (with the hope of MAYBE live-blogging the CCEF Conference next week). Happy Saturday! – Tara B.
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FIVE MORE COPIES to be given away (!!)
How fun!! Our dear, wonderful RadicalWomanhood author Carolyn McCulley read about my little giveaway and wanted to join in the fun–so she has donated an additional five copies of her book to be given away. 6 free copies to be given away! All you have to do is leave a COMMENT. Thanks, Carolyn (& Moody press too)! Happily, Tara B.
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Hey ! Don’t you want a retreat speaker in 2009?
Hey! Don’t you think your church might want a women’s retreat on peacemaking or living the gospel in relationships or some other related topic? I hear there’s a nice lady in ol’ Montana who will fly to wherever you are (Australia? Europe? Topeka?) and serve for a weekend. You should check out the Speaking Page of her website and consider inviting her to be with you. 🙂 Seriously? Future bookings that are “far out” (after 2009) have begun to increase–I’m guessing in response to the release of the video series–but 2009 is so far a very quiet year. I sure would LOVE to get to meet some of you wonderful…
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Might want to check this out …
If you (or someone you love) is struggling with lust, you may want to check out this post over at TakeYourVitaminZ. Might be worth your time. Our church leaders have also been helped greatly by an accountability program called Covenant Eyes. Oh–and just to try to avoid the flaming/rude comments about how Christians “overreact to this ONE sin, blah blah blah”, please know that we ALL need help whenever we are tempted to ensnared by anything (ANYTHING–even someone good) that begins to enslave us as a ruling lust. Hope the links are helpful! Yours, Tara B.
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Communities of Performance vs Communities of Grace
Please take a minute to read a great post by Tim Chester: Communities of Performance vs Communities of Grace (HT: TakeYourVitaminZ)
