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Week 6: Lent: The Heart of Christ (Were Puritans Baptized in Vinegar?)

with 108 comments by Dee Brestin

I'm so thankful to our own Patricia who discovered another series of messages from Reeves on the Puritans. In this, Reeves clears up the misunderstanding people have about the Puritans. ...

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Lent 5: The Heart of Christ (We are part of His Body)

with 117 comments by Dee Brestin

After what I see now as a Divine interruption, we are back to the Reformers and the Puritans. A few weeks ago, I asked: Do you believe, with all your ...

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Special Lenten Post: Jesus’ Last Week with Paige Benton Brown

with 133 comments by Dee Brestin

I'm departing from our format for a week for several reasons, but the reason underneath the human reason is that I do believe the LORD wants you to watch this ...

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Lent #3 The Heart of Christ (William Tyndale)

with 256 comments by Dee Brestin

Nicky Gumbel, the founder of Alpha, went on holiday with his family to Russia and smuggled in Russian Bibles. He writes (on his Bible in one year app) While I ...

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Lent #2 The Heart of Christ (Thomas Goodwin)

with 213 comments by Dee Brestin

In my recent interview with Dr. Dobson, I shared the story of how all my daughters and my only daughter-in-law gave birth to little girls in the same summer and ...

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Lent 2021 #1: The Heart of Christ

with 424 comments by Dee Brestin

So often Valentine's Day and Lent fall in the same week, as they do this year. It almost seems like an oxymoron -- should I enjoy my Valentine chocolates or ...

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Love in a Time of Covid #6 Made For Another World

with 184 comments by Dee Brestin

Perhaps you have heard the saying that those who are too heavenly minded are of no earthly good, but indeed, it is the heavenly-minded who have actually done the most ...

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Love in a Time of Covid # 5 The Rider on The White Horse

with 159 comments by Dee Brestin

After Steve died, I went out to dinner with Kathy Troccoli, with whom I'd traveled for five years with our book, Falling in Love with Jesus. Kathy has been single ...

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Love in A Time of Covid # 4 I’ll Fly Away

with 204 comments by Dee Brestin

In the many moves in our marriage, I always desired a house near the water, which God sometimes graciously granted. When Steve felt a call to the medically under-served area ...

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Love in a Time of Covid Week #3 The Bride Jesus Loves

with 262 comments by Dee Brestin

The Bible begins with a wedding, ends with a wedding, and is shot through with pictures of a faithful Bridegroom loving an unfaithful bride. This Bridegroom has the power to ...

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Love in a Time of Covid #2 (He Who Overcomes)

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This week is about overcoming, and I've been reading a book about two women who truly were overcomers when they were taken captive in Iran for their Christianity. What was ...

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Introduction: #1 “Love in a Time of Covid” (Overcoming thru Revelation)

with 264 comments by Dee Brestin

I remember when I was a young girl looking at the photographs in Life Magazine of the 5 martyred missionaries in the jungles of Ecuador. That was one of the early ...

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Reflecting on the Poetry of Christmas

with 225 comments by Dee Brestin

Before we leave 2020, I'd like you to reflect, with help of some beautiful poetry, on the beauty of God being made flesh. But first, I want to tell you ...

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An Advent of Holy Contemplation #4 He Made Himself Nothing

with 174 comments by Dee Brestin

This year may be the simplest Christmas we've known, but that may get us closer to the One who made Himself nothing for us. Perhaps you will be with some relatives ...

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An Advent of Holy Contemplation #3 God and Sinners Reconciled!

with 102 comments by Dee Brestin

I was reading an old article entitled "England Before And After Wesley," and how dramatically the doctrine of grace banished the darkness with light. For example, slavery was rampant in ...