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Bad Dog! | Unbounded Domesticity
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Today I’m going to talk about those silly little critters called people. Surprised you, didn’t I? You thought I was going to talk about dogs. Sorry. Nope : ) Don’t even have a dog. But if you looked at this post hoping to read about dogs, keep reading. It’s a good post. Anyway, I’ve had a bit of a thought brewing in my mind which, like many of my thoughts, spawned from annoyance with a common human characteristic: what is it, I ask, with people and underdogs? To him. They were. Of his control. He did...
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Mighty Confusing | Unbounded Domesticity
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There is a Catholic church near our home. So near in fact, that I can hear the church bells ringing from my front yard. As sad and confusing as Catholicism often is to me, the sound of the bells is beautiful. There was one evening, however, in which I heard a song drifting from the church that. Confused me. That evening, the bells were playing A Mighty Fortress is our God. By the Catholic church. So why, I ask, was the church down the road, Catholic to be sure, playing that song from its own bells? We be...
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Home | Homefront Quiet
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Observations of family life. Religion can complicate simple faith. Think of all the ways zealous folks try to convince the world: “Repent of your sins and turn to Jesus,” “Say this prayer and you’ll be saved,” “You don’t want to go to hell, do you? 8221; There’s at least a grain of truth in each of these statements, but I fear for many they fail to make a lasting impact. The heart of the message in most of these approaches is not the heart of the Gospel. To bring us Home. He lived a human life, but one f...
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Homefront Quiet | Observations of family life | Page 2
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Observations of family life. Goodness, it’s been a while since I’ve posted (again). Thanksgiving turned out to be a great time with both sides of our family. I hoped to talk with family members more specifically about the Gospel, but I think it worked out best to just spend time and catch up. God made the promise of an ultimate sacrifice, one that would redeem all men from all ages. Yet decades bled into centuries, centuries melted into millennia. Silence from heaven. No word. Nothing. I hope wherever yo...
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People are Important | Homefront Quiet
https://abbylandis.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/people-are-important
Observations of family life. Some colors mean something. Red, white, and blue mean freedom. Red and green mean Christmas. Black and gold means Steelers football. Skin color, however, doesn’t mean a thing. Only anguish and division and hatred result from the “racial trouble” we supposedly have in America. Yet do we really? That’s why we teach kids about Jesus. You can know where you’re going. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Chr...
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December | 2014 | Homefront Quiet
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Observations of family life. Monthly Archives: December 2014. Some colors mean something. Red, white, and blue mean freedom. Red and green mean Christmas. Black and gold means Steelers football. Skin color, however, doesn’t mean a thing. Only anguish and division and hatred result from the “racial trouble” we supposedly have in America. Yet do we really? That’s why we teach kids about Jesus. You can know where you’re going. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian,...
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Bleh | Homefront Quiet
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Observations of family life. I hade being sick. It feels like an elephagnt is squishing my temples and an eel poured toxins down by throat. To make matters worse, I feel useless, which makes be not able to rest proberly. The world can’t possibly make it wibout me — there’s too buch to do! Oh, well. Bight as well rest up while I can, and thank the Lord people pull for be when I’m down. Dey are the best. By the way, all the typos are indentional — how else do you type wid a tuffy dose?
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February | 2015 | Homefront Quiet
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Observations of family life. Monthly Archives: February 2015. So I was thinking about the line in “Despicable Me” where Gru tells one of the begging girls, “The physical appearance of the ‘please’ makes no difference.” Pretty please, ugly please — no cigar, either way. My mind superimposed this subject into the line: “The physical size of the person makes no difference.” Where would this be useful? To make a point about abortion. What’s not to love? No one has the right to take innocent lives. I hade bei...
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No More Excuses | Homefront Quiet
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Observations of family life. No good excuse will cover the sin of neglecting a blog for this long. It’s one of the cardinal rules of blogging, I’ll wager: “Thou shalt not abandon readers without alerting them to your absence.” (I do have an three-pronged excuse for the merciful, though: pregnancy, winter, and ministry. Truce? So what he’s saying is this: because you have made a mistake in your life, you can never accuse anyone else of making a mistake. You are a hypocrite because you are just a...Unfortu...