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Spoiler alert!
Read another Hamish Macbeth mystery – a mindless diversion.
The build up in these books are always good, but the resolution is disappointing. The murderer killed 3 people leaving no trail and for months the police had no leads. Then all of a sudden, she stabs someone in the lobby of a hotel and gives herself away. I think the author just wanted to end it.
Read this on Family Life that I think is insightful:
As Easter approaches, don’t you often wonder why Christmas gets all the good press, while Easter is treated more like a very distant second cousin? After all, it’s a commemoration of the greatest news ever proclaimed in history: Christ is alive and we are forgiven! Easter arrives with so little fanfare, we almost forget it’s coming.
For the past couple of years, I’ve observed something like Lent during the Lent season – 40 days before the passion week of Christ. The idea is to prepare your heart to truly celebrate what Jesus did for us at Easter. By committing yourself to abstain from something or to do something positive, something that requires some effort that you wouldn’t normally make, it reminds you of how Jesus suffered.
Thanks for the guest post by Jo Levy
What would we do without the internet? It just amazes me the way you can get information these days. By the click of a button you can look at anything in the world. You can find out the answer to any question that you could possibly think…
I saw this book at the library with one of Thomas Kindade’s pictures on the cover with Thomas Kinkade as the author. Kinkade writes too?
I found out he can’t. I’m sorry, but I quit a third of the way into the book because it was so boring. I know it’s suppose to be a…
Read more of “Christmas Treasures by Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer”
Lately I’ve been hearing of hospitalizations and health problems of elderly parents. Just today a friend’s mother passed away. Another friend’s mother is in a coma.
When I hear such news, I get tired. Tired of the burdens of life, tired of the difficulties. And I have not even experienced even half of what some…
I read an interesting article in the California Southern Baptists periodical – Can Sunday School be saved?
With declining attendance in Sunday School based on a LifeWay survey, the article discusses what can be done.
Ken Meyers, minister of Christian formation and education at Knollwood Baptist Church in Winston – Salem, NC, said the question…
I was in the ladies bathroom at church today and politely asked the elderly woman there the perfunctory, “How are you?”
She replied, “I’m good, praise the Lord.”
I like that. Praise God indeed. Even if we are not well, we know God is sovereign. Praise the Lord.
Warning: Spoiler Alert
With a stack of church ministry books to read, I decided to take a break and read my favorite genre. A whodunnit mystery is one of my favorite ways to relax.
In this Hamish Macbeth mystery, a lot of people die. Anyone who comes in contact with the murderer dies. And it…
We can function and live a decent life, even active in the church, “serving God”, and even do a good job in vocational ministry, yet have no real fellowship with God.
But I find that if I go weeks without focused prayer (merely surviving on quick prayers and public prayers that are usually impersonal), holes begin to show.