Category: Bible Reading
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How Not to Impress an Agent – Proverbs 22:1
Conspiring with my roommate, Jenni Brummett, we scampered down the long carpeted hallway, trying to keep our voices low. Though it was near midnight, we were energized by the friends we’d left back in the hotel room (and probably the cookies they fed us). They’d insisted we go and try to sign up for an appointment with…
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What’s in your Bucket?
In the early years of living on our ten acres our spring would go dry every summer, requiring us to haul water from a neighbor’s well in five-gallon buckets. How I learned to appreciate those buckets! Without them I’d have no water to cook the spaghetti or wash my children’s faces, or even flush the toilets. On hot days…
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Wisdom is a Noisy Lady – Proverbs 1
Originally posted on Kathy Sheldon Davis: I’m away at the Oregon Christian Writers coaching conference this week, so I’m sharing one of my favorite posts from my archives. In the first chapter of Proverbs there’s a list of warnings for those who ignore wise counsel. Wisdom is clearly a voice determined to be heard. “Wisdom cries…
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Up from the Rabbit Hole – Proverbs 4:20-23
“My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it”…
