Thanks Linda for your passionate and honest message. I will pick a winner for the Frank Schaeffer book tonite. Tweet
I was introduced to the writing of Frank Schaeffer via his book Crazy For God several years ago. I loved the book and wrote about it here. On that post, a reader left a comment asking me if I had read any of Schaeffer’s fiction books. I had not and I tucked that comment away in my brain in hopes that someday it would resurface at just the exactly right moment when I was in need of a new book [...]
We hosted Thanksgiving this year. Twenty-seven of my husband’s closest relatives stayed at our house for four days. We went hiking and played board games and watched ballgames and went to the movies and The Oracle Known as Steve staged a coup and tried to take over my kitchen, but I bravely fended him off with a carving knife, a rusty old egg beater and a very pokey meat thermometer. And yet, even as he bled out from oozing puncture [...]
Because the Christmas tree photo was getting a wee bit tiresome.
With mincing alacrity, Dear Charles takes on Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ” and startling questions arise!!!
I stepped out into the black winter morning.
No stars, no moon, just black.
My boots made the only noise
Crossing the icy patch to the barn.
I love the dark.
The cold dark
The cold still dark.
My chest would rise in a prayer every time.
Thank you god for this beautiful dark.
But then one morning I opened my eyes.
Or perhaps the scales fell off?
god disappeared
And behold
The cold still dark was still beautiful.
Even more so.
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