Review: A Heart Like His by Beth Moore

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Title: A Heart Like His: Intimate Reflections on the Life of David Author: Beth Moore Category: Christian Non-Fiction Published: May 1, 2012 by B & H (first published 1996) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository We all go through times when we feel insignificant or times when we feel certain that we have experienced a degree of failure from which there is no return. This is not a reality we experience alone, but is one that a man after God’s heart experienced as well. From shepherd, to refugee, to king of Israel, David exhibited the purest virtues and the most heinous sinfulness, but through it all his relationship with the Lord continued to grow. A Heart Like His looks at this bond of mutual love and admiration between a man who was not unlike any of us and the one true God who is all good and all powerful. Beth Moore walks us through an exploration of David’s incredible life, drawing spiritual...
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Friday Five

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It's Friday again! Hallelujah! Today's questions for Friday 5 are about sounds. 1.What is a most pleasant sound to wake up hearing? I hate getting out of bed. There is not pleasant sound to wake up to. 2.What is a most pleasant sound to fall asleep hearing? I like some soft classical music on the radio, but that rarely happens. Usually, I fall asleep to the sound of the fan - my husband's preference. Least pleasant sound to fall asleep to - my husband snoring, but don't worry, I'm sure he would say the same thing about my snoring. It's almost a race to see who can fall asleep first. 3.What’s a more annoying sound: car alarms or leaf-blowers? Car alarms, especially when they just keep going and going. Leaf-blowers don't really bother me. 4.What’s a sound most people seem to like but you hate? A solo violin. Granted, it depends on the music, but some very good violinists have made...
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Thursday’s Tale: The Little Moose Who Couldn’t Go to Sleep by Willy Claflin

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Last week we looked at a tale about a moose. This week, we're going to look at a tale told by a moose. The Little Moose Who Couldn't Go to Sleep was told by the great moose storyteller, Maynard Moose, to Willy Claflin who wrote it all down and had it illustrated by James Stimson. Yes, it's not my traditional Thursday post, but it's a fun book and it is posing as a traditional Moose story. The story is about Little Moose who can't get a good night's sleep. Her mind just keeps working all night long, thinking about just random things, like I can picture a kid thinking about. She's a cutie, but the next day at school, she's so tired that can't pay attention and isn't learning well. Her parents try to help, but the moose recipe for sleeping well is to eat a big bowl of legumes and go to bed an hour early, neither of which little...
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Audiobook Review: Keep Me Ghosted by Karen Cantwell

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Title: Keep Me Ghosted Author: Karen Cantwell Read by: Nan McNamara Category: Romance Audio published: November 8, 2013 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Ghosts. Do you Believe?Sophie Rhodes doesn't have a choice. She's surrounded by them.Desperate to pay the bills, 29-year-old Sophie ignores the advice of her stuffy spirit-friend, Marmaduke Dodsworth, and takes a job with the handsome Dr. Callahan, an optometrist with a desperate situation of his own. The good doctor's problem? He has a spirit-friend as well: one with a fiery crush and a vicious jealous streak. When chemistry starts to brew between Sophie and Dr. Callahan, his green-eyed ghost wreaks some bad-tempered havoc, scaring away his patients and putting Sophie on edge. Will Sophie give up the ghost and quit the new job, or buck up and find a way to rid Dr. Callahan of his pesky specter, freeing their romance to find a life of its own? Keep Me Ghosted is a cute, fun romance,...
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