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What do the following books have in common?

Question: What do the following books have in common?
Too Late the Phalarope
Kisses from Katie
The Power of a Praying Parent

Answer: They are all being used to rock my world!
I don’t know what changed, but I suddenly …

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City of Tranquil Light – by Bo Caldwell

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City of Tranquil Light – by Bo Caldwell

I recently finished one of the only books I’ve read since Sophia was born.  It’s a story about young missionaries who go to China, fall in love, get married, and serve there …

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Masters of the future and guardians of the past (English language with Portuguese subtitles)

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Japan – a land that embraces the ancient and modern, makes bridges between traditional art and the fashion world, admires the discipline and culture of the geisha and participates in the fascinating world of technology and …

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Talmidim – by Ed René Kivitz

talmidimTalmidim – by Ed René Kivitz

In Galilee, in the time of Jesus, Jewish boys began their studies of the Torah when they were 6-years-old. At age 10 , when they completed the first stage of their education, Bei Sefer

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Ethics – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

ethicsEthics – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I finished Ethics by Dietrich Bonhoeffer a few weeks ago. It is not an easy book to be read, but I definitely recommend you to research about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and read some of his writings if

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The Ragamuffin Gospel / O Evangelho Maltrapilho (Portuguese version)

Rugmuffin GospelA few years ago when I was in Barcelona I heard about The O Evangelho MaltrapilhoRagamuffin Gospel for the first time.

In Miami last year a friend of mine told me about Richard Mullins and his band: The Ragamuffin Band. That same …

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God’s fingerprints in Japan

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I was only 10 years old when I met Elisa in my first local Presbyterian church.

A few years after that, Elisa, who has Japanese background, decided to move to Japan and be a missionary. She …

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Yancey and the Prodigal Son

Two things for today:

1) Just finished Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing? by Philip Yancey. (Don’t ask me how long it took me!) I’m grateful for Yancey because whenever I read him, I learn so …

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Rumors of a Another World, Beyond the Sling, Catching Fire

booksjohnnaI’ve been reading a few books lately and it’s so good to be back into reading again.

Rumors of a Another World – by Phillip Yancey
Yancey quotes so many different authors when he writes, I’m beginning to think he’s …

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Journey of Christianity II (Read Part I written on August 09, 2013)

subversionbonhoffer“What is at stake is by no means whether our German members of congregations can still tolerate church fellowship with the Jews. It is rather the task of Christian preaching to say: here is the church, where Jew and German …

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