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I just read a great book.
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Wow… I can’t believe that I’ve never heard of that book. It is EASILY one of the top 10 favorite books I’ve ever read. I can’t think of any other book I’ve read where I’ve felt such a close bond with the characters. My [...]

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of Creation.

Victor Hugo
(1802-1885, French poet, dramatist, novelist)

I wonder what else I have in [...]

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Wow… it has been a long time since the last “Quote of the Period Only SQJ Knows”
In the last 24 hours I read a couple things that made me LOL because they described me…
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865, 16th American President)
I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views [...]

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After speaking of the possible explanations for the meaning of the “worthless branches” pruned away in John 15… Erwin Lutzer writes:
FROM: How to Have a Whole Heart In a Broken World by Erwin Lutzer
Regardless of how we understand the worthless branches, we cannot lose sight of Christ’s central point: as far as God is concerned, [...]

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Yeah… it’s back… In case you’ve just joined us this is a regular feature on the blog… “Quote of the Period Only SQJ Knows”. The last series of quotes were actually part of a contest… which was great fun for the 3 readers of this blog and Sean C. won a great book. We will [...]

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This is the last of the 5 quotes from Discipling Nations: The Power of Truth to Transform Cultures. Even though Sean C. already won the contest… I want to share the final quote with you…
From: An Adequate Philosophy of Religion, by Abraham Kuyper
Wherever a man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may [...]

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Even though Sean C. already won the contest… the main reason for posting the quotes from Discipling Nations: The Power of Truth to Transform Cultures is that I like them and think you might also. So… there are 2 left and I’ll go ahead and post them even though you can’t win anything any more.
Previous [...]

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Here’s quote number 3…. which might actually cause some discussion… (between the 3 of you who comment here)
Click HERE (or scroll below) to see about the contest part of these posts. Basically… if you can tell me (in a comment) which book I snagged these epigraphs from… you win the book. I know [...]

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Here’s quote number 2…. I just realized that these quotes only appear before each SECTION of the book… not each chapter… so… there will just be FIVE of these.
Click HERE (or scroll below) to see about the contest part of these posts.
HINT: Missions book
PRAISE TO THE LORD, THE ALMIGHTY - Joachim Neander) Translated by: Catherine [...]

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OK… here’s a new recurring feature of the blog. Quote of the Day POSK.
I wish I post a quote every day… but I don’t want to be forced to put up some lame quote just because it is called “Quote of the Day”. So… it is now officially called: Quote of the POSK.
These first few [...]

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