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  [the story of God, the story of us] chapter 10: Cross

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  Throughout this chapter, and through the tears of grief and of celebration that often accompany the telling of events leading up to and following Christ’s death, I found myself asking God a most unexpected question. “Lord, do I really have to tell people I have toe fungus?” I must have [...]
   
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  [the story of God, the story of us] chapter 8: conceit

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  “God’s beautiful gift of rest and freedom from the slavery of activity to which people seem prone to give themselves.” Gladding’s description of the Sabbath shakes me—a not so gentle rousing from the daze of default living. This autopilot lifestyle is one set on a collision course with death waiting [...]
   
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  [the story of God, the story of us] chapter 2: catastrophe

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  Catastrophe. What a word. A momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin, a violent or sudden change in a feature of the earth, a violent and usually destructive natural event—utter failure. Praise God, our story may be filled with catastrophe, but His story doesn’t end [...]
   
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  [present perfect] chapter 2: finding home

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  Present Perfect, you had me at opening each chapter with quotes and prayers that read like poetry, leaping from the page and taking up residence in the mind and heart.  Then you reeled me in further with the recurrent post-its urging me to ask myself, “Are you awake?” Oh, how [...]
   
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  [servolution chapter 7] the fabric of a servolution: a towel and a basin

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  by Victoria Jenkins There are so many ways we are to model ourselves after Christ, but chapter seven of Dino Rizzo’s Servolution touches on one amazing aspect of our awesome Redeemer that I cannot wait to explore and develop within my own life His life through me. We need to [...]