Monthly Archives: December 2013

My Top Reads of 2013

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Joe Chambers

I thought I would share with you my top reads for 2013 and why I liked them so much.  You will see that they fall into three basic categories, History, Novels and Church related.  I read other genres but these … Continue reading →

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Listening with a Friend

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Joe Chambers

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil C.S. Lewis understood as well as many, that hearing God and living the With-God life requires community. He believed it so much that he wanted children to learn … Continue reading →

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An Older Place than Eden

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Joe Chambers

There is no place like home. ~~Frank Baum, “The Wizard of Oz”  You can’t go home again. ~~Thomas C. Wolfe Which is it? For most of us, the idea of home has a powerful gravitational pull in our emotional life … Continue reading →

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Ugly Trees*

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Joe Chambers

I grew up nine miles from town, three miles from our nearest neighbor, at an elevation of 9,000 feet in Colorado.  One year my dad, brother, sister, and I went to the woods half a mile away to find our … Continue reading →

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Christmas Love

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Joe Chambers

When I was a boy there was a girl; her name was Mary Patterson.  She was tall, which was important to me, with dark brown hair to the middle of her back.  Her bright smile dazzled me. When she laughed … Continue reading →

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Wilderness Wisdom

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Joe Chambers

“And this, our life exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”~~William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, scene i. This may come as a surprise to you, … Continue reading →

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Who Am I?

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Joe Chambers

…an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “…you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”  Matthew 1:20-21 Two vital questions: “Who names you?”  And “What is your highest … Continue reading →

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Do You Hear What I Hear?*

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Joe Chambers

After spending an afternoon shopping for my grandson’s Christmas gifts and running various errands for a wife who had earlier given me a long list of must-do items…I was startled into an important lesson about life.  It came as a … Continue reading →

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