Anyone can point out that something is wrong. It takes no special gift to point out the obvious. Being able to identify positives, be an encourager, and nurture solutions requires a wisdom worth seeking out. The conclusion of a post by Stephen Altrogge: “Criticism is easy. Anyone can do it. It takes special grace to …

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Yesterday’s announcement that Google are discontinuing Google Reader from July 1 is a disappointment. People ask how I keep up with online content. Simple. Instead of going to hundreds of websites, an rss subscription for each website in Google reader means that everytime new content was posted on each blog, there it was, all on …

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Every month a short devotion by Graham Nicholson is posted on the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church website’s blog page. Here’s the latest: From the moment our alarm clocks jolt us awake in the morning to the last flicker of eyelids as we doze off to sleep, our lives are measured by time. Sometimes we may wish …

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Mark Buchanan generously provides us with an excerpt from his upcoming novel David. This section deals with Saul’s daughter, Michal, who would be given to David in a marriage that would end unhappily. The subject of this excerpt is not David though, but Samuel, the prophet who had a very complicated relationship with her father. …

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