Our small groups this fall are doing an inductive Bible study that involves a lot of note-taking and marking things (think colors, symbols, notes) in your Bible. There are things I love to mark in my Bibles, but I didn’t really have a Bible with enough margin for what I wanted to do with this study, so I shopped around…
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Full disclosure here: I don’t read comic books. Or graphic novels. Don’t yell at me. If I’m looking through a newspaper, I enjoy the funnies as much as the next person. But I’m not really much of a visual consumer, and if I’m going to take in a story, I want as many words on the page as possible, unless…
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If I had one Bible… Okay, so I’m a Bible nerd and I have lots of Bibles. Study Bibles, regular Bibles, devotional Bibles, tiny Bibles, big giant Bibles, one-year Bibles, Bibles in all sorts of translations. But if I had to just have one Bible, it would be a good study Bible in a good translation. A good study Bible…
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Confession Time: Sometimes, my quiet time stinks. Yep. Pastor Joy struggles with quiet time sometimes. I forget, or I get drowsy, or I plan to do quiet time in the morning and then wake up late. Sometimes, I’m distracted. It’s a good thing God likes me anyways ;). But we all need to reset sometimes, no matter how much we…
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Hey friends! Have you noticed that when you listen to podcasts, you start to pick up the phrases of your favorite podcasters? A few months I found myself opening yet another blog post with echoes of Christy Wright, and when I typed “hey friends!” just now, I was hearing the voice of Kathi Lipp from The Communicator Academy in my…
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