Now’s the time to shop at Canon Press at their Fall Sale. I’ve never seen prices this low on some of my own stuff….I think I’ll stock up! Some of the audio sets are priced at $1.50! Loving the Little Years audio is, I kid you not, $1.87. My book for unmarried women and Doug’s dad’s book on Bitterness are each going for three bucks! You can also pre-order the CD set from the Femina Conference. And lots of other cool stuff. Go shop around!
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Four years ago (or so?) I led a study for women I called Women, Marriage, and the Fruit of the Spirit. We spent a week on each fruit and looked for applications in marriage. (That gave us plenty of material to work with!) I am going through this study again with a new group of ladies, and after receiving a request for the notes, I realized that I posted each study up here on Femina back in 2007. You can find them all here, or if you would prefer, you can go over to the category bar yourself and click on Fruit of the Spirit. Just bear in mind that you’ll have to go to the oldest posts to start at the beginning….and for some reason (and this is a real puzzle!) one of them has a name I do not know listed as the author of the post. (There’s no accounting for it that I know of. And I don’t know how to fix it either!)
Just in case you haven’t noticed Bekah’s blog lately, she has some adorable Christmas labels for you to print out. Not to mention a silly story about her new stylin’ garbage can and a commentary on British road cones.
I have sat in the front row of church now for many years, in all the different locations our church has met in, including a body shop back in the early years. (In those days the men had to move the cars, hose down the floors, and set up the folding chairs!) Lately I have been reflecting on the front row, with some practical and some symbolic thoughts about it.
First of all, in secular events, front row seats are prized. Think about concerts and sporting events: the front row seats are the most coveted seats. But at church, many people shy away from the front row. Now I’m not talking about a conference with a big-name speaker up in front. At that kind of event, the front rows are taken. I’m talking about church. (And I suppose, if a worship service is conducted like a concert or spectator sport, the front rows might be crowded.) But how often do most folks shy away from sitting in the front row Sunday morning? And why do they do that? What’s the difference between a rock concert and a worship service? A whole lot, that’s what. Continue reading ‘Thoughts on the Front Row’
For any of you ministers’ wives out there who have recently joined us, I send out an email newsletter from time to time called “The Minister’s Wife.” If you would like me to add you to the mailing list, just leave a comment here. (You don’t have to leave your email address, as it is included with your comment.) My mailing list is around 300 wives from a many denominations and a few continents. So if your husband is a minister, feel invited!
Things happen. Unexpected things happen. Hard things happen. Life is funny that way. So, how do we react when tough things happen? We should view it the way the Bible tells us to view it. This is a test. God sends His children pop quizzes and tests from time to time to see if we are learning our lessons, if we are paying attention, if we are reading our assignments.
If we view unexpected events as tests from a loving Father, we know how to proceed because we all know how to take tests. We have done our homework. We can roll up our sleeves and try to ace the test. Unless we’ve been dozing in class, not doing our homework, and spacing out during the lectures. In that case, we need to repent, and then we need to get back on task.
Life is full of trials and tests. We are told to count them all joy. If we’ve been learning our lessons, and the pop quiz comes unexpectedly (like all pop quizzes do), we are prepared. And it’s a whole lot easier to count it all joy when we meet various trials (and tests) when we are prepared.
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