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Notes on The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages by Shaunti Feldhahn

A few weeks ago we celebrated our 25th anniversary.  Through health and sickness, riches and poverty, joy and heartbreak, God has been with us, and we have learned much about marriage. But even for us there are still helpful and encouraging ideas in Shaunti Feldhahn’s book The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages:  The Little […]

Review: A Godward Heart by John Piper

Sometimes short meditations are easier to absorb than whole books.  This may be because it is easier to evaluate and determine a life response to a few paragraphs than to a whole book. A Godward Heart by John Piper is a book of 50 of such meditations covering a wide range of topics from “This […]

Review: Truth Matters: Confident Faith in a Confusing World

Truth matters.  What you believe about the ultimate questions of life, death, God, and our purpose makes all the difference in the world… and not only for today. But what is truth, and how can we know it?  Long ago Satan confused Eve with his half-truth, and he has been confusing people ever since.  Nowadays, […]

Ascension Day

Today is Ascension Day and we focus on our Lord Jesus’ ascent into heaven.  With that comes a focus on his return also.  When and how will that happen?  We do not know.  But this we do know: This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same […]

Review: The Miting by Dee Yoder

Leah’s friend Martha is wild and rebellious, interested only in boys, movies, and partying.  She is, understandably, in trouble in her Amish community, and Leah’s Daet and Maem worry about her bad influence on their daughter.  So they encourage Jacob Yoder, hoping Leah will settle down and become a good Amish wife. And, as her […]