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“don’t know where she’s gone,” I said, and to my own surprise—for I had not wept until that moment—I burst into tears. • • • Further mention of Mum, then, was put off until we sat in the hired brougham, with my bicycle strapped on behind, swaying along towards Kineford. “We are a pair of thoughtless brutes,” Sherlock had observed to Mycroft at one point, while providing me with a large, very starchy handkerchief hardly comforting to the nose. I am sure they thought”
― The Case of the Missing Marquess
― The Case of the Missing Marquess
“Many people think a Christian is someone who believes in God and tries to be good, or someone who lives by the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount (as if anyone could!). But what we and our children must understand is that a Christian is a person who recognizes that he or she is a sinner deserving nothing less than the terrifying judgment of God and who takes refuge only in the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.”
― The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids
― The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids
“Lord, how I wish I could do something tangible and physical to ensure the safety of my children from judgment. Instead I must trust you and thank you for providing the Lamb of God who takes away sin. I ask you to give ________ a deep sense of need for her life to be marked by his blood.”
― The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids
― The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids
“Sometimes we give our children the idea that the Christian life is all about what they must do for God. But at the heart of what it means to be a Christian is the willingness to accept the cleansing touch of Jesus so he can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).”
― The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids
― The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids
“of nature, which I most definitely was not. “So, Enola,” asked Mycroft gruffly after a while, “are you feeling well enough to tell us what has happened?” I did so, but there was little to add to what they already knew. Mum had left home early on Tuesday morning and had not returned since. No, she had left me no message or explanation of any sort. No, there was no reason to think she might have taken ill; her health was excellent. No, there had been no word of her from anyone. No, in answer to Sherlock’s questions, there had been no bloodstains, no footprints, no signs of forced entry, and I did not know”
― The Case of the Missing Marquess
― The Case of the Missing Marquess
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