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Freedom of Self Forgetfulness: The Path to True Christian Joy

An Honest Look at Humility and Pride Author: Timothy Keller Timothy Keller’s The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness is a short (fifty page) work that focuses on the freedom in true humility. It’s crafted in three sections: The Natural Condition of the Human Ego, The Transformed View of Self, and finally, How to Get That Transformed View Of Self. The base for this work is Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 3:21 – 4:7): So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the [...]

2024-03-23T20:49:18-07:00March 23rd, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

Christmas in Mitford and Second Chances Author: Jan Karon In the 12th Mitford novel, the at times beautiful, at times stressful, at times wonderous life of a small town and a tight knit community continues as Christmas approaches. Father Tim is faced with a lot of choices and a potential new calling, Dooley and Lace continue to work towards defining their relationship, old friends and neighbors pass on and new friends and neighbors come into town, some people learn about letting go and others about starting new things, and the beauty shop begins a town wide obsession with a spray tan [...]

2024-03-16T17:10:17-07:00March 16th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , |

Praying the Bible

An Effective Way to Reenergize Your Prayer Life Author: Donald S. Whitney Praying the Bible is a simple, straight-forward book about a complicated, multi-faceted topic. While the Bible tells Christians to pray without ceasing, and some of the bastions of our faith seemed to do this effortlessly (like the Apostal Paul), the rest of us are left in a rut. We know we should be better. We should want to pray, and our prayers should be more dynamic than, as Whitney notes, “saying the same old things about the same old things,” but honestly, they’re not. Prayer is the proverbial elephant [...]

2024-02-25T12:38:13-07:00February 25th, 2024|Tags: , , , , , , , |
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