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Theology Thursday: Prayer Wrap Up
Hey, Hey, It's Theology Thursday! I have plans for the fall as to what topic I'll be digging into, but today is wrap up day: This summer I explored the topic of prayer. Here are my top takeaways: -The two books I enjoyed the most on the topic were one I discussed in full here: When God is Silent and another one that kind of surprised me, to be honest. It's a book called Praying With Paul by D.A. Carson. I found this book to be so encouraging, so well-written (at times, he mad

Kelli
Aug 17, 20234 min read
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{Book Review} When God is Silent: Let the Bible Teach You to Pray by John Koessler
This summer I've been studying prayer, so I've been writing about it, looking at prayers in the Bible, doing word studies and reading...

Kelli
Jul 26, 202310 min read
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Prayer: Praise, Thanks, Bless
...yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the...

Kelli
Jul 5, 20235 min read
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Prayer: Until We're Face to Face
Hey, Hey! It's Theology Thursday! This summer I'm focusing on prayer. Here's this week's thoughts: Last Thursday when I didn't do my planned post on prayer, I felt bad for not being consistent as consistency is what I'm working at being better at! But then I calmed my inconsistent self down because my reason was SO GOOD! It was because I spent the day hanging out WITH my daughter, who had just gotten home from a five week trip overseas, which came right off her semester at c

Kelli
Jun 22, 20235 min read
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Scribbled Prayers
Hey, hey! It's Theology Thursday - what could possibly be more fun? This summer, I'll be looking at the topic of prayer. Read the first post in the series here: the fastest pray-er in the [mid]west and read on for this week's thoughts: I love a good pen, great notebook and a list. I do, however, have this little tickle in my brain that says if I mess up the page with a spelling error, weirdly written "e", or wrong pen, I have to start over. Then I get stuck because if I tear

Kelli
Jun 8, 20235 min read
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The Fastest Pray-er In the [mid]West
My Grandpa Craig Massey was a pastor, conference speaker, counselor, and had a show on the radio where I always loved it when he said my...

Kelli
Jun 1, 20233 min read
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