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Black Tide

It’s The End of the World as We Know It Author: KC Jones Beth is a car wreck of a person: all broken parts, sputtering starts, and failed journeys. Her mother is the one who came up with the analogy, and Beth knows that it fits; she is haunted by her failures, the broken friendships, the failed jobs, the lost opportunities, the hopelessness of it all. While house sitting for a rich family at a fancy beach town, she does it again. She reaches out to connect when she shouldn’t and finds herself drunk on champagne, in bed with the solitary [...]

2024-01-13T13:36:06-07:00January 13th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

How to Understand and Adopt Spiritual Disciplines  Author: Donald S. Whitney I discovered Donald S. Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life through a C.S. Lewis Fellowship assignment; the assignment was to read only two chapters, focusing on the importance of reading and meditating on scripture, yet I stayed for the entire book. And I am very glad that I did. Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life is a fantastic, if not comprehensive, look at several key spiritual disciplines that help to focus and improve the Christian’s devotional life. These disciplines include scripture reading, prayer, worship, scripture meditation, evangelism, serving, stewardship [...]

2024-01-06T16:11:27-07:00January 6th, 2024|Tags: , , , |

Monet at Giverny

A Pictorial Tour of Monet's Living Artwork Author: Adrien Goetz Photographer: Eric Sander When I went to Giverny to view Monet’s historic home and lovingly recreated gardens, I knew very little about him. Yes, I knew that he was an Impressionist painter, most known for his series of water lilies. He’s not my favorite painter (Van Gogh gets that place of honor), but I always appreciated the surrealistic play of Impressionism, the way that it marries colors and images with feeling and atmosphere, capturing something beyond sight. Plus, the travel agency recommended a stop in Giverny based on our love of nature. [...]

2023-12-29T14:54:01-07:00December 29th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |
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