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Sistine Chapel

The Return to Beauty

Evenings in our house are usually a little chaotic. With a four-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl, quiet moments are rare. I was downstairs cooking dinner one night when our son…

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Motherhood and Mary’s sword reflection on faith and sacrifice

Motherhood & Mary’s Sword

In my Bible-in-a-year plan, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Gospels and just recently hit the Gospel of Luke. As a mom, this gospel resonates with me more than the others, likely because much of it was written as…

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Book Review: Saving Your Marriage

We recommend about 20 books on Fourthstream. Not that there aren’t lots of other good books, but these seem relevant for understanding God’s family heart ways in a world where He has been mostly shut out (at least – theoretically). For about

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Book Review: Organic Church

Neil Cole wrote a book a few years ago which was really helpful in my King First – Then Kingdom – then Church process. He does the work of revisiting how Jesus built the Kingdom and consequently…

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Daniel and Isaiah and Jesus

“Finishing listening to Isaiah right now, and it’s so crazy to see how much of what’s in Isaiah Jesus said in the gospels. It would make sense that it is Jesus the Son speaking…

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Ann and Romans!

Ann – great insights (you are really digging into Romans!) Your question:How would you respond to an unbelieving friend who believes that good works get you saved?

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S9E14 Song of the Wind

The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8) There are reasons Jesus uses this descriptive analogy. If we are to find God we must do so through God’s wind – His Holy Spirit. This God Story thread begins in Genesis 1:1,2 and completes in Revelation 22:17. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

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