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Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now (New Edition with Study Guide)

by Walter Brueggemann

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Building below the Waterline: Shoring Up the Foundations of Leadership

by Gordon MacDonald

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“Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

tags: christianity, god, worship

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“God gives us these raw, little people, and we have to form them and mold them and teach them how to operate in society. And if we get a glimpse of all the ugliness that lies right beneath our own polished surface? Well, then, there's a humbling lesson too. It's those moments when I realize I have to extend grace to Caroline as she figures these things out by trial and error in the same way God lavishes me with mercy, even as I make the same mistakes over and over again.”
― Melanie Shankle, Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn

tags: grace, motherhood

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“R. C. Sproul writes, "Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

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“Real motherhood is different. It's better and it's messier and it's more complicated. It will break your heart and make you laugh harder than you ever imagined. You find yourself alternating between feeling like your friends talked you into some sort of pyramid scheme so you could share in their misery and thinking this is the most fulfilling thing you've ever done in your life.”
― Melanie Shankle, Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn

tags: humor, motherhood

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“I watched her with the crab as she ignored all my admonitions that the poor crab just needed to be set free if he was to have any chance of surviving. And God showed up there on that beach to teach me a lesson. Nothing survives when it's being smothered. Life, real life, requires being free to move about in the great big ocean, not being cradled in little hot hands that will stifle independence and creativity. We can't keep our crabs (or our kids) in a bucket and expect them to go far in life.”
― Melanie Shankle, Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn

tags: kids, letting-go, motherhood

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