Hey Anita! You beat the (incredibly low 🙂 ) odds and won the prize in our giveaway. Drop me an email (or fb if that’s easier for you) and let me know what book/resource you’d like, confirm your mailing address, and I’ll do everything I can to get it right off to you.   Love to you and your entire wonderful family— Tara B.  

(I love digging through sermon notes and re-reading books to prep for new teachings! Well, not really new. Nothing new to be said unless it’s heresy, I’m sure. But it’s fun to prep. Here’s an oldy but a goody from the brilliant Paige Benton Brown …) “The problem is not that we need more. The problem is that we don’t know what we already have.” Amen and preach it, sister.

“Are you too bad to receive grace? Grace woos and comforts us when we think we are too far  gone to be rescued. How could you be too bad to receive what is for the bad?” — David Powlison  

How fun! The world’s cutest webmaster-turned-communications-director, Fred Barthel, was interviewed on Challies.com: Meet the Ministries – Peacemaker Ministries    

Worth the (quick) read (and very doable!): Ten Prayers for the Sake of Orphans And if you have just a few more minutes, you’ll enjoy:   The Manliness of Adoption  

No. This isn’t some deep theological post on complementarianism. It’s actually just some thoughts I had this morning that made me laugh to myself and I thought you might enjoy too … HOW A GUY (let’s call him Ted) MAKES A BABY BOTTLE – Go to the kitchen. – Wash hands. – Make bottle. – Give milkies to baby. HOW A GAL (let’s call her Lara) MAKES A BABY BOTTLE – Go to the kitchen.  – See that we don’t have multiple bottles of water in reserve. Go to basement to get more water. See that receipts need filing in basement office and there is laundry to throw in. File…

I would appreciate your prayers today and next week as I am working on content development—for three speaking events that require new content and for a writing project. I don’t know how it is for other people, but for me? I pray before I accept a project and then I pray a lot during the development stage and (of course) when rolling it out. I research. I read, seek counsel, take notes. I think. I really do! (Even though those of you who know me in real life may question my ability to think any more. My brain is SO slow and SO sluggish these days.) When I’m working on…

Wow. I want to be like this young man and raise my girls to be like him too. (We’re talking a lot these days about being a gracious winner and a gracious loser re: board games because OH MY STARS! I was such a spoiled little poor loser BRAT as a kid.  Soph never tires of hearing stories about what a wretched little lying, mean kid I used to be. 😉 )  

Oh, I cringed a bit when I saw this post from pastor Thabiti Anyabwile: The New IX Marks eJournal: Liberalism I remember so clearly back in my undergrad years, the first conversations I had, the first books I read, the first sermons I ever heard that claimed to be “Christian,” but defined Christian in such a radically different way than I had ever heard before that I literally gasped. And grieved. Then I learned more and more about systematic theology and and church history and, well, I gasped. And grieved. Read and learn. Read and pray! Yours, Tara B.   PS And just because I am, apparently, unable to have…

Hmmmmm … in looking back over the past few days, I realize that I am apparently just a Challies.com parrot. Not a bad thing to be, especially when you’re  crazy busy and haven’t made time to blog. But rather than reading my summaries of his (great) blog, why not check him out for yourself? 😉 Challies.com