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 Dear Andrea, Since leaving a church some months ago, I have stopped praying and reading the bible. I feel slightly guilty about this, but the feeling of freedom is much greater! For years I forced myself to do these things, because that’s just what Christians do. In fact I’m pretty sure I have read the whole bible about 15 times through in my life. Recently though, I can’t handle pressure of any kind. I have not abandoned faith – on the inside it’s as real as ever and I have this sense of sharing my life with God as it moves along – but theseRead More →

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Hi, I was just wondering if you were a born again, spirit filled believer. –brittjer Dear Brittjer, Absolutely, though my sister’s not too happy about it. At times, she’s complained quite vocally about the born again part, “You’ve changed!” I’d answer, “I wish you would be changed, too,” except that would get me disowned again for another two weeks or so. She’s a faithful adherent of the Sin-all-you-please-and-go-to-Heaven-anyway gospel. The main problem with that understanding is, were it true, either Heaven would cease to be Heaven, or else such believers would be most unhappy there, as sin and Heaven mix like oil and water (thatRead More →

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In preparing my review of a book from my personal reading list, I checked what negative comments were circling about the author. What I concluded from this is that Joyce Meyer is indeed an imperfect human being with imperfect understanding. In the Graham household, we have a saying, “Take the meat and throw away the bones.” And despite Mrs. Meyer’s failings, there is still plenty of meat to be found in the pages of her latest book, “The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear.” If you struggle with feelings of self-hatred, self-doubt; if you’re stressed out and unfulfilled; if fear is a strongholdRead More →

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Andrea– A friend’s twenty-year-old daughter has made a series of terrible choices. Always headstrong, she began sneaking out of their Christian home in her early teens. First pregnant at fifteen, she’s now carrying her third child. All three children share the same father, but she divorced from, was jailed because of, and now lives with this absentee father. While in jail she swore she’d change her ways, but now it’s back to business as usual, depending on extended family to support her ex-husband, herself, and their children. Should the family temporarily cut her off and force real-world consequences for her actions, or allow her toRead More →

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Gentle reader, In case you missed the last post, I’ve joined the CFBA blog tours, but unfortunately didn’t get to read the current book, which Mrs. Frugal here will definitely have to look for at the library, along with Dandelion Dust. So here’s what a fellow founding member of the Lost Genre Guild, Dan Weaver, had to say about it. The Election by Jerome Teel – Review Who doesn’t love a good, fast-paced thriller? Oh, come on, you know you do. Well, Jerome Teel’s debut novel, The Election, shouldn’t disappoint. After hearing author John Grisham speak in one of his law classes at the UniversityRead More →