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I listened to this driving up to DC a few weeks ago. I found it quite helpful (it is pretty reformed – I am less so, but it is valuable indeed). It is, in my opinion, a very thoughtful and balanced presentation on personal prayer from the lives of great leaders of the past…. get situated, fresh cup of coffee, something on which to write, something with which to write… get in mind to take a couple of notes and CLICK HERE

Kevin and Alyssa Walker are CEO partners preparing to go to teach in Croatia. Over on their blog, they’ve posted a moving story… are you rich? READ IT

Joanna said I would love this… she was right…

time for your Hungarian culture lesson kids… CLICK here

This is a valuable resource…

…an especially good example of how NOT to pronounce Hungarian, DO NOT learn from this guy, but you can learn a ton about the Heartland!

A few weeks ago I posted a link from an Irish lady who spoke about the Christian wife… I mentioned that I was going to link to the husband talk too… here it is… its worth your time…

CLICK HERE

O living God – Father, Son and Spirit, I do pray for you to strengthen your saints, your children, who have been bought and paid for and rest secure in your great love.
O loving Lord, on this first day full of spring, all around us there is news of war, rebellion, earthquakes and great waves which bring death by the tens of thousands. Let us look to you with hope in your great love and know that you have promised us never to leave us or forsake us.
Awesome Provider, help us to face fear with thanksgiving.
O sweet Saviour, do not let us forget that you have paid the price for us. Help us never to forget that we are to build up our treasure in Heaven and not on this earth.
Almighty God, when the earth rocks and the sea opens up, the markets crash and our income shrinks, help us, we pray, to remember that you are with always with us and help us trust in you.
Maker of Heaven and Earth, please remind us that now is the moment we have and that we need to live for you today and leave tomorrow for then, for as you said, tomorrow has enough worries of its own. Teach us to face worry with faith.
God of kindness and justice who leads us to repentance, let us look to our neighbor who has yet to meet you and help us learn his name that we may be able to introduce him to you.
Oh God, help us not fear earthly calamities, but use us instead as bringers of hope so that they may ask us why we can have such hope in you when destruction is all around us.
LORD, on this first full day of spring, where you are showing new life in your creation, give us great faith to trust in you in all things at all times.
In the name of He who came and defeated death and has given us everlasting life.
Amen

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“What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.” Pearcey quotes Machen on p. 251 of her mammoth rethinking of How Shall We Then Live what she failed to predict that updates and Tweets would replace the philosophies of professors.

As Schaeffer took us through history until his time to consider where we had come from the Roman age, Pearcey takes us through a more systematic philosophical approach. It is rich with examples and analysis, sometimes too rich. It is like reading a textbook but goes a bit deeper, at times just as wearisome.

It is analytical, to a fault. Indeed, dare I use a system she borrows from Schaeffer?

MIND
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HEART

Yet, this is an important work that should be used widely, indeed it is evangelicalism at its best. But perhaps that is its biggest letdown. The second biggest let down is, in my thinking, a failure to discuss social networking other than as anecdote. No, Egypt had not yet happened, but this is, in such a work, by such an esteemed author, a discussion that needed to happen. Perhaps in a later edition, oh and an index.

I’m looking forward to a discussion this Tuesday with the Bible faculty of Covenant School to see what I missed that they caught.

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