This wonderful middle-grade biography spans Lilias’s entire life, revealing all the providential moments that lead her to the decision to leave home, security, and success behind and become a missionary in Africa.
Our kids aren’t strangers to our world’s fallenness. But Butler’s series helps them to know that this fallenness is not determinative or absolute.
The entire room made the turn with my reading, from the fanciful to the wonderful, from the truth of wonderland to the true world that God made.
And I knew in that moment that we had something special on our hands.
Scrooge’s lesson somehow became my own, and with him I set my heart to stop my covetous existence, grappling for the lost currency of my home culture, so that I might exchange it for a much more valuable life of living with and for my fellow man.
For those of us who also find ourselves in a land of Arguers, where can we find hope?
Combs is a pastor in a liturgical tradition, and he has included this tradition in each day’s story. Every story ends with a repeated liturgy pointing us towards “the one who is coming”. This addition of a daily liturgy creates a rhythm to each day’s reading that is unique to this Advent devotional.
Without further ado, here’s your first list of recommendations from The Mended Wood Literary Society!
To help embrace the month of Thanksgiving with that attitude, here’s a list of eight Thanksgiving-themed books that I have loved reading aloud with my family.
In our imaginations we explore other worlds, we put ourselves into situations we’ve never actually been in, and we inevitably wonder: What would we do there? What would we be like?
Even though she was not perfect, Katie Luther’s life shows us what living in freedom looks like: no longer striving to be flawless to please God, no longer slaves to sin, but letting God work in and through us as we extend his love and kindness to those in our lives.
The artist agreed to bring the stories the next morning. He left the fourteen drawings with Wenders. But he did not return the next day. Or the day after that. Harris Burdick was never heard from again.
The book covers the overall story of Scripture – creation, the fall, redemption, and the new creation – by carefully tracing the kingly theme through all seventy chapters
