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by Victoria Jenkins | May 2, 2011 | authentic christianity, bible literacy
[serialposts]Read James 3 (NASB, ESV, MSG) I open my Bible, the one with pages reading like a colorful map of my life these past five years. Its binding worn, its self-made tabs nearly unneeded after so much traveling to and fro through its precepts, His story. Ours....
by Victoria Jenkins | Jan 7, 2011 | bible literacy, spiritual practice
Throughout this chapter, and through the tears of grief and of celebration that often accompany the telling of events leading up to and following Christ’s death, I found myself asking God a most unexpected question. “Lord, do I really have to tell people I have toe...
by Victoria Jenkins | Dec 24, 2010 | bible literacy, spiritual practice
“God’s beautiful gift of rest and freedom from the slavery of activity to which people seem prone to give themselves.” Gladding’s description of the Sabbath shakes me—a not so gentle rousing from the daze of default living. This autopilot lifestyle is one set on a...
by Victoria Jenkins | Dec 10, 2010 | bible literacy, spiritual practice
Catastrophe. What a word. A momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin, a violent or sudden change in a feature of the earth, a violent and usually destructive natural event—utter failure. Praise God, our story may be filled with...
by Victoria Jenkins | Jul 9, 2010 | authentic christianity, spiritual practice
Present Perfect, you had me at opening each chapter with quotes and prayers that read like poetry, leaping from the page and taking up residence in the mind and heart. Then you reeled me in further with the recurrent post-its urging me to ask myself, “Are you awake?”...
