Shouts of Joy

A friend of mine has been helping her six-year-old daughter (let’s call her Alicia) memorize the Ten Commandments. After a few minutes of Thou-shalt-nots, the little girl asked in frustration, “Mommy, is there anything we can do?” Of course, you know that God speaks directly to and through mothers, sometimes when they don’t even know it. “Well, baby,” she said,…

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Learning from History

Lately I’ve been reading lots of Old Testament history. If you don’t get bogged down in the genealogies, the books of Ezra and Nehemiah tell a fascinating story of how God worked through events and people to make things happen. I’m still a little foggy about some stuff. I have questions like:  Exactly who did what and where? Which prophets…

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