Monthly Archives: October, 2018

Unbroken: A World War Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Louis Zamperini is a remarkable man.  This is his story. Although the movie with the same title was released recently, I am referring to the written book.  From a very young age I have always preferred the book to the movie.  Movies leave so much out and tend to twist things around. The book, written …

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Lazy River

I wrote this about six weeks ago.  Much has happenedd since that confirms in my heart that the message of Jeremiah is more pertinent than ever.  A Lazy River may be fun at a water park, but it ends disastrously in real life.  The entire book of Jeremiah is a thorough identification of how Judah cam …

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The Roar of the Crowd

If you have been reading this weblog for very long, you already know that I love baseball.   The team I have followed since I was a ten-year old girl, the Atlanta Braves (then the Milwaukee Braves) happen to be in the season play-offs this year.  Now regular baseball is exciting to me, but post season …

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Truth

Jesus told Thomas, his disciple, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life:  no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.”   Further in that long and beautiful prayer that Jesus prayed for his disciples in John 17, Jesus declared, “. . .thy Word is truth.”  In fact, John uses the word truth more …

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