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CELEBRATE This Week: LXV

I’m glad you are here to celebrate! Share a link to your blog post below and/or use #celebratelu to share celebrations on Twitter. Check out the details here. Celebrate This Week goes live on Friday night around 10(ish). Consider it as a weekend celebration. Whenever it fits in your life, add your link. Please leave a little comment love for the person who links before you.  ******** There’s this story that’s clinging to my heart. These men are fishing — all night long they are fishing. It’s been a rough… Read more CELEBRATE This Week: LXV

A Test of Obedience

Rembrandt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons I have a hard time reading Genesis 22. The part Rembrandt depicts here, I can handle that part of the story. It’s the comforting part, the relief part, the it’s-all-okay part. It’s the whole story before the happy ending that’s hard for me. Genesis 22 is the story of God testing Abraham’s obedience. God says, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the… Read more A Test of Obedience