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12 years ago @ Lisa notes... - The practice of wearin... · 1 reply · +1 points

Look at you! You're really rocking this Vlog experience.

Love the quote about the difference between the questions we ask in Sunday School and the ones we ask in the hospital. Gonna be sharing that with some friends in the coming days.
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13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - Without your story of ... · 0 replies · +1 points

And now you've got me singing, "I love to tell the story, of unseen things above . . . " But then again, I've been known to break out into random hymn-singing from time to time.

This post just reminds me of what a privilege we have in getting to participate in God's work of revealing himself to others. How cool is that?
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13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - I thought I understood · 1 reply · +1 points

Oh, yes, Lisa. You could have written this post about me. I've long known what I know, and could argue someone into a corner theologically and make them cry (and I'm not saying I haven't) I've always thought it was important to be right about God as he revealed himself to be.

I have an elderly aunt whose theology is pretty black and white, so I was surprised one day when she said, "Who knows, when we get to heaven, how much we'll find out we were wrong about?" It was so very humbling.

Yes, I've met good and faithful people whose theology doesn't line up with mine. I'm getting better at living with paradox, and trusting that God is perfectly capable of bringing even clanging gongs and noisy cymbals like me into a deeper understanding of him.

The only thing that matters, Paul wrote, is faith expressing itself in love.
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13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - Are you quiet enough t... · 1 reply · +1 points

What a powerful post, Lisa. I feel like you took me to church right there with you. You honor these men and women by telling their stories, and I'm humbled to realize that, one day, we will all be praising God together under the canopy of eternity.
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13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - Are you dead to sin? · 0 replies · +1 points

I've left my upper 40's behind and am moving into the early 50's, but I still love me some beach.

That dominion thing--that really is where the evidence of God's grace is, isn't it? Every time I choose obedience instead of sin, it is evidence that God has been and is continuing to work in me. It really, truly always does come back to grace.

It's been awhile since I've read some Jerry Bridges. Maybe it's time for me to re-visit him.

13 years ago @ http://www.rageagainst... - how to keep your sanit... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks so much for this. I'm taking the train in just for the day on Friday, and I'm feeling a little like a hillbilly about to hit the big city. I got a heads-up on this post from another adoptive mom who stalks,I mean, reads your blog. How did I never come across your blog before? Hoping to meet you at the conference.

13 years ago @ http://upthesunbeam.bl... - Deep Unto Deep · 1 reply · +2 points

I've seen some spectacular waterfalls, while hiking with the Swede and my kids out west. I could almost feel their cool mist on my face as I read this.

And now I'm going to be thinking about this verse.

13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - You’re not good ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes. I'm beginning to realize that one of the biggest impediments to my faith is my own ability. I'm good at certain things, and when I'm not doing good enough my reaction is to try harder.

Which isn't the gospel at all.

Lately, it seems, God has been taking me places where I am completely out of my element. I have not a clue what I should do. It's been a painful process, learning that He really doesn't want (or even need) me to do anything. He just wants me.
My recent post This Thing Called Love

13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - When you can’t d... · 0 replies · +1 points

The simplest of kind words, the smallest gesture, has power to communicate so much about the love of God. It's not really about us, is it? It's all about what he can do working through us.
My recent post She Didn’t Give Much

13 years ago @ Lisa notes... - Need approval? · 1 reply · +1 points

I love that book by Tim Keller. Affirmation and security are such huge counterfeit gods and, such empty ones when I remember that I already possess those things in Christ.

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