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Melissa is Currently Reading

Melissa is currently reading

The Glorious Christ: Meditations on His Person, Work, and Love

by Kris Lundgaard (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025, non-fiction

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Jan 20, 2025 08:32PM

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Melissa

by Taylor Caldwell

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2024, classic, 2025

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Jan 01, 2025 06:23AM

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Navigating Early

by Clare Vanderpool

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2024, audio-books, middle-grade, 2025

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Melissa’s Quotes

“I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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“Often the cynic is wise toward reality but a simpleton toward redemption. The cynic offers thick and nuanced description of the swamps and the Challenger Deep but has little more than trite or formulaic expressions for beauty. Preachers must learn to describe something more than sin if they hope to preach redemption for the bogs of a post-everything world. To say rightly but solely that sin and misery saturate reality is to flirt with simplism.”
― Zack Eswine, Preaching to a Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect with Our Culture

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“But what if differences are made by remembering where we’d be without God and then ministering to others out of that knowledge? What if preaching requires something prior to homiletics?”
― Zack Eswine, Preaching to a Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect with Our Culture

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“Biblical preaching must address three important questions: (1) What kinds of people in our community do we exclude from sitting with us and hearing our sermons (Mark 2:16)? (2) What life situations must people overcome before we allow them to hear our sermons (John 4:17)? (3) What geographical environments do we exclude from our preaching (John 8:48)?”
― Zack Eswine, Preaching to a Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect with Our Culture

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“grace leads us to reflect Christ’s holiness, but grace also motivates and enables us to reflect his mercy for the poor, his care for his creation, his zeal for justice, his delight in beauty, his love of the unlovely, his dignifying all kinds of work that apply his gifts, his treasuring of chastity outside marriage, his blessing of fidelity in marriage, his tenderness toward “the least of these,” and his love for the lost who have not yet found their home in him.”
― Zack Eswine, Preaching to a Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect with Our Culture

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