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2 samuel ✅

1 samuel ✅ ngl I feel like 1-2 samuel would make a sick tv drama. got some game of thrones ish going on

"What deal can we strike with God when he gives us everything we have?"

ruth✅ only one day dedicated to this bad boy lol

judges ✅

happy easter!

"All that needs to happen for power to become violent is that it be removed from the context of love in which it finds itself in God's character."

joshua ✅

"What our culture needs is not a model of Christ made in its own image (it has shelves full of those already) but the real Christ, who comes in grace and truth to confront, complete, and console every culture for its good and his glory. Christ should not fit comfortably into any culture, and if he nestles snugly into our own, then we have almost certainly lost sight of the biblical Christ."

deuteronomy ✅

happy spring!

"With all you are, listen for the hum and flutter of the waking world. The upland chorus frogs are singing. It is a song of full-throated promise. It's beginning again. It's all beginning again."

just going to start pointing out every time authors misrepresent the South. mistake #1: calling the Georgia ocean "turquoise" (this is the Atlantic, fellas). mistake #2: writing a 4am breakfast & not having them go to Waffle House.

"Be joyful / though you have considered all the facts."

numbers ✅

leviticus ✅

I am somewhat ambivalent to owning a home vs. renting, but being able to do whatever I want to the landscape is a big draw for ownership. that and being able to paint the walls any color

"We have boldly assigned ownership to this unique combination of water, organic molecules, and biologically favorable weather: Tom owns this part, Dick owns this part, Harry owns that part, and Mary owns this parcel down the street. So be it; but along with this ownership comes the responsibility of stewarding the only known life in the universe, which is perhaps the most awesome responsibility of all."

gettin close kids!

happy ash wednesday! or sad ash wednesday? congrats, you made it to ash wednesday?

exodus ✅

"Kathy sends the smart girls, and the smart boys too if they'll listen, up north to college." I canNOT with the amount of anti-Southern prejudice in this book lol. wild.

accidentally marked this as finished - for sure not finished, just finished with Genesis.

genesis✅

slowly but surely!

trying to make it through this whole book this (church) calendar year