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Endorsements for “Redeeming Church Conflicts”
Dave Edling and I are humbled and grateful for the endorsements that are beginning to trickle in for our book, “Redeeming Church Conflicts.” It takes a lot of time to read a manuscript carefully (I actually have to do that this weekend for someone who has asked for my endorsement) … and it’s rarely an easy decision whether to endorse or not. So thank You, Lord, and thank you, friends, for these endorsements: ‘In Redeeming Church Conflicts Tara Barthel and David Edling draw on their extensive experience helping brothers and sisters resolve serious divisions in ways that bring glory to Jesus, the prince of peace. Perhaps even more important than…
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Six Things You Can Do to Protect the Spiritual Growth of Your Children (Ed Welch)
This brief, but substantive, article from Ed Welch is absolutely worth your time: Spiritual Protection for Your Growing Child (Or Anyone Else) Oh, and a really funny pic here: Oh! The Irony …
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Happy Birthday to the World’s Best Sister!
In honor of my sister’s birthday today, I went to old photo albums and took pictures of (yellowed) pictures and posted an entire album on FaceBook. I won’t recreate the entire album here, but just to show you what a cutie-pie Kali was, here are a few of the pics: (I’m the bald baby next to her. She used to call this my “Kojak photo.” 🙂 ) (*** WARNING *** Scary 1970’s perms ahead …) (Gotta love the 80’s …) I absolutely adore my sister! Happy birthday, Kali!
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See You Soon, New Life Presbyterian (La Mesa)!
Just a quick shout-out to the women of New Life Presbyterian Church (La Mesa) in San Diego … can’t wait to be with you all next weekend! (And not just because we’ve already had SNOW here in Montana. 😉 ) Praying often for you! With much love, Tara B.
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Join us in Delaware this December!
So it’s official and you’re invited! My silly mileage run has turned into a (not silly!) actual event: Fear Not “Mini-Retreat” featuring Tara Barthel Saturday, December 10, 2011 from 9AM – 12 noon Location: Glasgow Church in Bear, DE Please RSVP to HeritagePresWIC@live.com by December 5th (And visit Tara’s Speaking Page to learn more about her “Fear Not” retreat.)
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Would you like a FREE retreat for your women?
So … I’ve never done this before, but I’m thinkin’ I’m going to jump in this year and do my first official mileage run. (In a nutshell—and nutty might be a great descriptor! 😉 —this means that I am going to book myself an airline ticket for the express purpose of earning frequent flyer miles.) I need to actually fly ** UPDATED 3,300 2,821 ** air miles on Delta by December 31 and I was thinkin’ that maybe one of you blog readers / Twitter-ers / or FaceBook friends would like to schedule a little one-night women’s event/discussion for absolutely NO COST to you (other than a ride to/from the…
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All 256 Pages Done! Thanks be to God!
Cap’n Dave and I worked from 7AM – 12noon and finished ALL of the edits for the galleys of our book. Yup. All 256 pages of ol’ Redeeming Church Conflicts have now wrapped. And we’re even available on Amazon.com for pre-order. Yowza! It looks like this project really is going to come to fruition. Thanks be to God! And to the world’s most patient, gracious, brilliant co-author (!). I was blessed to even be along for the ride re: pulling out Dave’s wisdom and experience conciliating in every size, type, denomination, non-denomination, urban, rural, tiny, huge conflicted church you could ever imagine. Man! That guy has some great stories. How…
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Permission to Feel Badly
RZIM’s e-devotional, Slice of Infinity, continues to be the only one I receive weekly and I am always glad that I do. What a team they have! What profound insights they share! I truly urge you to sign up for this resource. I have never received SPAM or even donation requests from them—they even have my REAL email address (not my SPAM/junk email address) and all it’s ever been used for is this devotional. Anyway … I didn’t mean for this post to be an advertisement for RZIM. I really just wanted to encourage you all to read Margaret Manning’s lovely (deep, comforting, real) essay over in the archives from…
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2011 CCEF Conference General Session 6: Tim Lane—The Local Church: A Safe Place to Struggle?
2011 CCEF Conference General Session 6: Tim Lane—The Local Church: A Safe Place?
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Quotes of Note and Links from Bob Kellemen’s Seminar on Anxiety
Thank you, Dr. Kellemen, for posting your “quotes of notes” and links from your session! What a blessing: The Anatomy of Anxiety (And thanks for the kind words on Twitter (#ccefcon) too. I actually wanted to send you a note on Twitter last night to say thank you … but I am still such a novice re: Twitter that I don’t know how! Like calculus in my MBA program wherein my husband coached me on “HOW to take a derivative” without understanding “WHAT a derivative IS” (not having had math since my sophomore year of HIGH SCHOOL, I still have no idea what a derivative is) … I tweet. I…
