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Bound Together: How We Are Tied to Others in Good and Bad Choices
I am very much looking forward to reading Chris Brauns latest book: Bound Together: How We Are Tied to Others in Good and Bad Choices And I just saw that the e-version of The Jesus Storybook Bible is available today for only $1.99 (!). This is a great price and I can say from personal experience that it is super fun for children to be able to read “their” Bible when we’re out and about and needing books—especially without warning/time to pack a book bag.
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What Do I Owe The Person Who Differs From Me?
My all-time favorite article on the Peacemaker website: Polemic Theology: What Do I Owe The Person Who Differs From Me?
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How to Fire Your Pastor
Our most read series over at RedeemingChurchConflicts.com: How to Fire Your Pastor
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Helping “Difficult People” in Your Church
It’s been a few months. Time to re-read this CCEF classic. If only I could staple it to my forehead until I have internalized all of its important (and helpful) truths: Helping “Difficult People” in Your Church
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Treasures from the PCA Bookstore
The wonderful Jane Patete just sent our family a very encouraging note (about my service at last month’s women’s leadership conference) and a number of treasures from the PCA Bookstore. We are so grateful and we can’t wait to read them. If you’d ever like to see what books are being added to our family’s library, I try to keep my LibraryThing catalog up-to-date: Tara Barthel’s LibraryThing.Com
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The Church as a Peacemaking Forum
This is a meaty read, but worth digesting if you are interested in the topic: Can the Church be a Peacemaking Forum?
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Discover Afresh the Manifold Wisdom of God in His Plan of Redemption
Today, Sophie and I had a fascinating conversation about architects, engineers, and builders. It sprang from a conversation about people who are more strongly gifted verbally versus those who are more quantitative and then the (super fun!) combination of people who excel at both. We then discussed people who are artistic and really good at math and how they often work in a field of creating things … like being architects, designers, or even certain aspects of civil engineering. This discussion led us to miss our dear friend P.Mark (who lives too far away from us!) and who could do anything he’d like in civil engineering, but who excels at designing the roads that lead up to…
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Why I LOVE Montana Drivers (This made me cry …)
I stand by my FaceBook like last week of Georgeanne’s comment about drivers in her hometown not understanding how to use a turn-lane. (The concept is obviously also foreign to a LOT of Montana drivers.) And until I lived in Montana, I never knew that drivers in the USA considered stop signs to be optional. (Turns out there aren’t many stop signs in Montana so again, the concept is a little foreign to native Montanans.) But today? I was SO proud of my Montana-neighbor-drivers that I cried … I was sitting at a “busy” (for us) intersection at a “busy” (I use air quotes because we really do have a…
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The Sexy Wife I Can’t Be (& Confessions of a 25 Year-Old Virgin)
Cap’n Dave just sent me an email to tell me that our RedeemingChurchConflicts blog made the top ten list for The Aquila Report last week. How fun! To quote Dave, “Some pastors must be concerned about exactly what is their greatest spiritual danger.” I’m so glad Dave’s posts are there to help out. I was also intrigued by a number of the other “top ten” entries for the week and I clicked through to one that was particularly poignant for me, having just LiveBlogged Ellen Dykas’ excellent teaching on the topic of “Courageous Compassion for Relationally and Sexually Broken Women”: The Sexy Wife I Can’t Be It is definitely worth the…
