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Does the Neglect and Abuse of Your Childhood Sometimes Still Jump Up and Surprise You (Even as an Adult, Christian Woman)?
Recently, a dear friend of mine wept silent streams of tears as she learned a little bit more about my childhood and some of the suffering I experienced in my family of origin. This is not a topic I talk about often, but when I do, it does not currently hurt me. It did at first. The ache; the ripping open of my chest as though I would die; the hot feeling of acid on every inch of my skin and the acute, instinctual reaction to pull back from every single person? I felt it all as a young adult when I first started to look back, acknowledge what had happened to…
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How to Write a Eulogy for a Bad Mother / a Mother Who Didn’t Love You
(A re-post from 2013 …) Tomorrow it will be four months to the day since my mother died. I cry less, but I still cry. My dreams are not as disturbed as they were at first—but I do still have those particularly troubling ones wherein I am leading my mother out of her nursing home and tucking her into the car to get her the heck away from there. And as I am doing so, I’m thinking to myself, “This is so great! They said she would never leave this place, but here we are. Leaving! But uh-oh. How are we going to care for her? She can’t even move three steps…
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Live Blogs (Near-Transcriptions) of the 2014 Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference
I hope that the following LiveBlogs for The 2014 Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference are a blessing to you. It truly was our family’s joy to have me serve in this way. Friday, June 27 4:00PM (Eastern) Plenary 1 – Kathy Keller: Taking Action in Light of God’s Word (Nehemiah 1-2) 7:30PM Plenary 2 – Tim Keller: Laboring for a God Who Fights For Us (Nehemiah 3-4) Saturday, June 28 8:30AM Plenary 3 – Paige Benton Brown: Fearing God in a Fallen World (Nehemiah 5-6) 10:30AM Plenary 4 – Nancy Guthrie: Coming Together Around God’s Word (Nehemiah 7-8) 7:30PM Plenary 5 – John Piper: Responding to God According to His Word (Nehemiah 9-10)…
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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #7: Don Carson – Leaning Forward in the Dark: A Failed Reformation (Nehemiah 13)
Welcome to the Don Carson Plenary Session LiveBlog! If you have any questions about LiveBlogging, please feel free to visit this page of my website and/or to contact me directly and I will try my very best to assist you. If you would like to read the other Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference LiveBlogs (on air today or in replay mode at any time), this page of my website will bring you to both the 2014 and 2012 Conference LiveBlogs. I hope the LiveBlogs are a blessing to you! Many thanks to Collin Hansen and Josh Matthew for allowing me the great privilege of serving in this way. Your sister in Christ,…
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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #5: John Piper – Responding to God According to His Word (Nehemiah 9-10)
Welcome to the John Piper Plenary Session LiveBlog! If you have any questions about LiveBlogging, please feel free to visit this page of my website and/or to contact me directly and I will try my very best to assist you. If you would like to read the other Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference LiveBlogs (on air today or in replay mode at any time), this page of my website will bring you to both the 2014 and 2012 Conference LiveBlogs. I hope the LiveBlogs are a blessing to you! Many thanks to Collin Hansen and Josh Matthew for allowing me the great privilege of serving in this way. Your sister in Christ, Tara Barthel
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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #4: Nancy Guthrie – Coming Together Around God’s Word (Nehemiah 7-8)
Welcome to the Nancy Guthrie Plenary Session LiveBlog! If you have any questions about LiveBlogging, please feel free to visit this page of my website and/or to contact me directly and I will try my very best to assist you. If you would like to read the other Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference LiveBlogs (on air today or in replay mode at any time), this page of my website will bring you to both the 2014 and 2012 Conference LiveBlogs. I hope the LiveBlogs are a blessing to you! Many thanks to Collin Hansen and Josh Matthew for allowing me the great privilege of serving in this way. Your sister in Christ, Tara Barthel
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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #3: Paige Benton Brown – Fearing God in a Fallen World (Nehemiah 5-6)
Welcome to the “Replay” mode of Paige Benton Brown’s TGCW14 LiveBlog. In it, you can read not only her teaching content, but also her introductory interview comments (ball pit!), the Gettys’ corporate worship lyrics, and easily access links to all of the resources she mentioned throughout the session. I hope that it is a blessing to you and to your loved ones at home who could not be with us here in Orlando! The LiveBlogs are particularly helpful if you need to fill in a citation that she mentioned quickly or you were wishing you could have captured a certain teaching illustration for your notes, say, for example, “The Lighthouse vs.…
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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #2: Tim Keller – Laboring for a God Who Fights For Us (Nehemiah 3-4)
Welcome to the Tim Keller Plenary Session LiveBlog! If you have any questions about LiveBlogging, please feel free to visit this page of my website and/or to contact me directly and I will try my very best to assist you. If you would like to read the other Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference LiveBlogs (on air today or in replay mode at any time), this page of my website will bring you to both the 2014 and 2012 Conference LiveBlogs. I hope the LiveBlogs are a blessing to you! Many thanks to Collin Hansen and Josh Matthew for allowing me the great privilege of serving in this way. Your sister in Christ, Tara Barthel
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Gospel Coalition LiveBlog #1: Kathy Keller – Taking Action in Light of God’s Word (Nehemiah 1-2)
Welcome to the Kathy Keller Plenary Session LiveBlog! If you have any questions about LiveBlogging, please feel free to visit this page of my website and/or to contact me directly and I will try my very best to assist you. If you would like to read the other Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference LiveBlogs (on air today or in replay mode at any time), this page of my website will bring you to both the 2014 and 2012 Conference LiveBlogs. I hope the LiveBlogs are a blessing to you! Many thanks to Collin Hansen and Josh Matthew for allowing me the great privilege of serving in this way. Your sister in Christ, Tara Barthel
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Pre-Conference LiveBlogs for The 2014 Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference
I decided to go ahead and try out some new features in my LiveBlogging software (Coveritlive) by creating a super quick pre-conference LiveBlog for today’s Gospel Coalition Women’s Conference. We’ll see if I can work the kinks out before my real LiveBlogging starts at 4:00PM (Eastern) when we will launch the first general session: Kathy Keller: “Taking Action in Light of God’s Word” (Nehemiah 1-2). Please feel free to stop by and say hi on the LiveBlog! (Your “hello” can stay just private to me if you prefer. Just let me know. 🙂 ! ) Blessings and joy, Tara B. PS If you have no idea what a LiveBlog even is, you…
