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Continue reading →: Advent 2024: Week 1 Luke 1:1-25
As we begin the Advent season, I think we need to take some time to really focus on the Christmas account piece by piece, and see how what scripture shares is meant to build on each other. Over the next month we are going to be looking at Luke’s account…
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Continue reading →: Ancestral Eating: Affordable for Singles?
Before moving to the St. Louis area, I happend upon a podcast that was all about ancestral eating. Needless to say, I was fascinated by the idea of going to the market or straight to the farmer for food, raw milk, fermentation, and scatch cooking. As I have spent the…
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Continue reading →: Homemaking and Singleness
Let’s talk about homemaking. What comes to mind when you hear the word? Is it… If you were to search the term “Homemaking” Google defines it as “the creation and management of a home, especially as a pleasant place in which to live.” In other words, anyone who creates a…
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Continue reading →: Loaves, Fish, and a Storm
As we have been going through the Gospel of John, we keep seeing how John is intentionally trying to show how Jesus is fulfilling is role of God in the flesh. As we begin to look at John 6, John focuses on a story that most people are familiar with…
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Continue reading →: The Woman at the Well
As we have been working our way through the Gospel of John, we are continuoulsy finding Jesus to deliberately place himself in situaions that for the time and place he lived, to be…awkward. On example of this we see in John 4. Jesus “had” to go through Samaria. “How can…
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Continue reading →: Health Challenge: 100 Squats and Crunches
Don’t let the title fool you: I am active; however, I am not someone who has an exercise regime. That is about to change. I set out before Christmas to challenge myself to do 100 squats and 100 crunches everyday for four weeks. I thought this would be a great…
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Continue reading →: John 2: Being Sassy, Making Wine, & Flipping Tables
I think that for those who have read through any of the Gospels, we can say that Jesus is known for doing things that were both out of the norm and caused people to talk. Never because it was bad, but because Jesus challenged preconceived notions that were common during…
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Continue reading →: Getting My First Tattoo
Tattoos aren’t for everyone. And it seems that everyone has an opinion about them. There are those who are completely covered, those who have sleeves, those who have a few and you wouldn’t know it, those who don’t care but don’t have any, and there are those who are adamantly…
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Continue reading →: The Gospel of John: Intro & Setting the Stage
What is the Gospel? Depending on who you talk to, you may get a different answer. The technical answer is: the Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament in the Bible, comprised of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Matthew, Mark, and Luke are the synoptic Gospels. The…
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Continue reading →: On the Eleventh Day of Christmas
We are almost there! We’ve been working our way through the Twelve Days of Christmas taking a deeper dive into what each if the Days are a symbol of. The song was originally meant to be a tool for teaching people the truths of the faith. As we’ve done each…
