Is there anything better than a book in the mail? The A to Z Guide to Bible Signs and Symbols landed in my mailbox last Saturday, and I was immediately drawn by its glossy weight. Everything about the book, particularly its colorful images, said "quality." Opening to the introduction, I learned that a symbol's job is… Continue reading A Week of Signs and Symbols
Author: Michele Morin
Michele Morin is a Bible teacher, writer, reader, and gardener committed to the truth that women can become confident Christ-followers and students of God's Word. She has been married to an unreasonably patient husband for thirty-plus years, and together they have four married sons and a growing fleet of adorable grandchildren.
Michele loves hot tea and well-crafted sentences, poems that stop her in her tracks, and days at the ocean with the whole family. She laments biblical illiteracy and advocates for the prudent use of “little minutes.”
She blogs at Living Our Days, and you can connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
An Invitation to Die
Glory Hunger by JR Vassar: A Book Review A favorite scene from one of my favorite movies is the moment when Anne Shirley learns that she has won the Avery Scholarship. Her fellow students pick her up, carrying her on their shoulders, and they laud her accomplishment with cheers! There's something supremely satisfying about that kind… Continue reading An Invitation to Die
Just One Thing: Onlookers
One of the drawbacks of starting a family in your thirties is that your children will likely have a distinct shortage of grandparents. However, not because we deserve it, but because God is gracious, our children are blessed to have a team of onlookers who have been, well . . . looking on for their whole lives, cheering… Continue reading Just One Thing: Onlookers
Because You Can’t Underline on the Internet
The Beauty of Grace by Dawn Camp, ed. -- A Book Review Lovely, fragrant, fresh, inviting: the adjectives that bubble into my mind for The Beauty of Grace are the same descriptive terms that I would use for the bouquet of flowers pictured on the cover. Dawn Camp has found a way to slow down the internet… Continue reading Because You Can’t Underline on the Internet
T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G.
You Have a Brain by Ben Carson, M.D. -- A Book Review Even if Ben Carson's mother had foreknown her son's future as a neurosurgeon, she could hardly have come up with a more fitting rhetorical question to challenge him throughout his childhood: "Do you have a brain?" Mrs. Carson never doubted the affirmative response… Continue reading T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G.
Everyone’s History
30 Events that Shaped the Church by Alton Gansky: A Book Review I do not envy Alton Gansky the job of narrowing two thousand years of history down to the thirty most significant events. In doing so, however, what he has created is an aerial view of history, a tool for harnessing the parade of names and dates,… Continue reading Everyone’s History
Just One Thing: Rubble
Going through an old journal -- from the days of four kids under the age of nine, I found an entry based on my reading of Nehemiah 4:10. "The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot build the wall." "Wow," I thought, scanning the entry. "That must have… Continue reading Just One Thing: Rubble
Five Thoughts from the Doorway
"Deep in our hearts, we know that the best things said come last," said Alan Alda in his memoir entitled Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. He's right, of course. We chat for hours of an evening, asking for and receiving updates on mutual friends, alternately bragging on and complaining about our kids; and then "linger… Continue reading Five Thoughts from the Doorway
Brighter, Better, and More Potent
The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts by Joe Rigney -- A Book Review By nature, I have a war-time mentality. I wish I could attribute it to a white-hot gospel fire in my bones, but it probably has more to do with seeing President Gerald Ford wearing a sweater and urging… Continue reading Brighter, Better, and More Potent
Just One Thing: Scorn
Sometimes fictional theologians utter such delightful truths that I have to remind myself as I am reading, "He's not a real person. He doesn't exist outside this book." Jayber Crow is just such a man, stalwart resident and barber in Wendell Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky. I love his thoughtful, meandering reflections on… Continue reading Just One Thing: Scorn
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