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Christy is starting The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
Trying the series again, started two years ago and only made it to book 4.
Dec 29, 2025 06:41AM 1 comment
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1

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Christy is starting The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions about God
“A determination to resolve our emotional struggles inevitably subordinates God as a servant of our healing rather than a Person to be praised.”
Oct 27, 2025 11:26AM Add a comment
The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions about God

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Christy is starting Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
“A friend knows that they bear a responsibility to speak the word of Christ that is stronger in their mouth. It is a holy obligation..”
Jun 06, 2025 11:24AM Add a comment
Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship

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Christy is starting Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
“Anyone who knows relationships knows you cannot disrupt a mood with an argument, you must disrupt it with a presence.”
May 18, 2025 07:53AM Add a comment
Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship

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Christy is starting Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
“When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.”
May 02, 2025 11:57AM Add a comment
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

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Christy is starting Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
“… the way that honest words are the logical followup to vulnerability for those who are interested in becoming more like Jesus.”
Apr 14, 2025 06:37PM Add a comment
Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship

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Christy is starting Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear
“If love is giving all of yourself for the good of others, that doesn’t just mean your strength. It also means your weaknesses.”
Feb 09, 2025 06:37PM Add a comment
Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

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Christy is starting Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There
“Goodness is the simplest thing in the world, and the most complex, like opening a door. “
Jan 20, 2025 11:37AM Add a comment
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There

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Christy is starting The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
Can’t rate it.
Very well written for what it is, but also exactly what you would expect of a Viking story and more: much much violence, pagan lore & sexuality. Not sure I’ll finish the series, pretty raunchy, which is a bummer, because the story is so well told.
Sep 27, 2024 11:44AM Add a comment
The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)

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Christy is starting Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years
“”She had lived in a context where fellow Christians tended to see people in terms of US and THEM. Now she saw this as “a make-believe world in which people were merely sinners, in need of redemption, I.e, what I had…”
Jun 25, 2024 11:08AM 1 comment
Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years

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Christy is starting Fit to Burst: Abundance, Mayhem, and the Joys of Motherhood
“It is Christ’s faithfulness that enables ours. It is our job to cast off sins, to be faithful. It is Christ’s job renew us.”
May 10, 2024 11:17AM Add a comment
Fit to Burst: Abundance, Mayhem, and the Joys of Motherhood

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Christy is starting The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
“A church without hesed no longer shines the light of Jesus, no matter how much ministry it may be doing. It may have perfect doctrine, but as one commentator writes, ‘without love the congregation ceases to be a church.’”
May 04, 2024 08:32AM Add a comment
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation

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Christy is starting The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
… love, the primary mover of character, is absent. Without hesed, we little transformation.”
May 03, 2024 09:43AM Add a comment
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation

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Christy is starting The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
“Its easy to believe that if our Christian communities have solid biblical teaching and doctrine (truth) and we are encouraged to apple the teaching to our lives (good choices), the Holy Spirit will enable us to understand the truth and make good choices. We expect this will lead to transformation. The formula looks reasonable to modern eyes but it has a fatal flaw - it is missing the most important variable… >
May 03, 2024 09:42AM Add a comment
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation

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Christy is starting The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
“We do not directly choose to be more joyful any more than we can choose to have lower blood pressure. The joy and blood pressure systems in the brain are not subject to direct choice. Joy levels are regulated indirectly through relationships.”
Apr 15, 2024 12:09PM Add a comment
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation

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Christy is starting The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
“Gratitude is the first step to building joy into our lives and helps us experience a more consistent attachment with God.”
Apr 15, 2024 12:08PM Add a comment
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation

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Christy is starting The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation
“Ignoring right-brain relational development creates Christians whole believe in Gods love but have difficulty experiencing it in daily life, especially during distress.”
Apr 05, 2024 12:21PM Add a comment
The Other Half of Church: Christian Community, Brain Science, and Overcoming Spiritual Stagnation

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Christy is starting Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
“One of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in the modern church is to reimagine spiritual maturity as the need to confess less.”
Feb 28, 2024 11:49AM Add a comment
Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

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Christy is starting Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer
“Adoration is not always the overflow of our hearts. In fact, it rarely is. It is an act of rebellion against the empty promises of this world and defiance in the face of circumstances.”
Feb 23, 2024 07:12AM Add a comment
Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer

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Christy is starting Honey for a Child's Heart
“A good book is not problem-centered, it is people-centered. It reveals how to be a human being and what the possibilities of life are; it offers hope.”
Jan 29, 2024 07:18PM Add a comment
Honey for a Child's Heart

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Christy is starting The Hidden Art of Homemaking
“Sacrifice! Yes! Of course, we must be willing to have little, to live in frugal conditions, to have no ‘security’ financially and to depend utterly upon God to supply what would enable us to do His will. But SACRIFICE does not mean UGLINESS, nor does it mean CARELESSNESS.”
Jan 28, 2024 05:37PM 1 comment
The Hidden Art of Homemaking

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Christy is starting The Hidden Art of Homemaking
“We should be conscious of the fact that this environment which we produce by our very ‘being’ can affect the people who live or work with us. The effect on them is something they cannot avoid. We should have thoughtfulness concerning our responsibility in this area.”
Jan 28, 2024 05:28PM Add a comment
The Hidden Art of Homemaking

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Christy is starting The Hidden Art of Homemaking
“There is no need to lock up this capacity for expression because you have not been able to make a career of it. Develop it for YOUR OWN SAKE, for the ENRICHMENT of the lives of those you live with and as an unconscious spark to set fire to OTHER DRY WOOD, other creative creatures on a finite level [my kids].”
Jan 24, 2024 12:26PM 1 comment
The Hidden Art of Homemaking

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Christy is starting The Hidden Art of Homemaking
“But - and this needs emphasis - a Christian, above all people, should live ARTISTICALLY, AESTHETICALLY and CREATIVELY.”
Jan 23, 2024 11:45AM 1 comment
The Hidden Art of Homemaking

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