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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 12

          THE PEOPLE: FAILURE! After receiving the law from God on Sinai, this week we learn about how the Israelites experience ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 11

The Lord leads His people to the same mountain where he spoke with Moses from the burning bush--Mt. Horeb, also called Sinai.   Israel is in ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 10

THE PEOPLE: Deliverance This week we go deeper into Moses' story, and how God used him to bring His people out of slavery and on ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 9

    THE PEOPLE: Moses Today we look at how God grew Israel's family into a new "people", and how God worked deliverance for them ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 8

This week we look at that boy with the amazing technicolor dreamcoat!  But what's really important about Joseph is not his fancy coat.  God has ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 6

Last week as you recall, we made a switch from "Problem" mode to "Promise" mode--we made the problem, God will fix it.  Abraham was the ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 5

Thanks again to picture book illustrator, Kevin Luthardt, for creating our Story Bible art today!  To read more about him and his advice for your ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 4

Study Guides: .pdf Download: Ages 4-8, Week Four .pdf Download: Ages 9-13, Week Four Make Your Own Story Bible Resources: .pdf Download 1: Story Bible ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 3 (Jan. 22)

Wow, week 3!  This week we'll be studying Noah, so put on your rainboots! Study Guides: .pdf Download: Ages 4-8, Week Three .pdf Download: Ages ...
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Bible Reading Challenge, Week Two (Jan. 15)

Can't believe week two is already here! Study guides: .pdf Download: Ages 4-8, Week Two .pdf Download: Ages 9-12, Week Two FYI: The Make-Your-Own-Story-Bible directions ...
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Our 2012 Bible Reading Challenge: an Introduction

I was raised in a denomination that took the Bible very seriously: “We speak where the Bible speaks, and are silent where the Bible is ...
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2012 Reading Challenge and Bible Adventure

ONE STORY, ONE BIG ADVENTURE Judging by the success of Sally Lloyd Jones' The Jesus Storybook Bible and R. C. Sproul's new book, What's in ...
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Dangerous Journey, Part 8

Today's Theme: Finishing Well From the clutches of Giant Despair, Christian and Hopeful escape into pleasant places of the Delectable Mountains.  We see them refreshing ...
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The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part 4: Home At Last

If you're just joining us, here's the Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. For the Project Gutenberg online version, go here. The worst ...
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Dangerous Journey, Part 6

  Chapter 6: Vanity Fair Today's Theme: Faithful to the End As our narrator says, "Most fairs are merry places.  But not this one--not for ...
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The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part 3: Dangerous Detours

Introduction Part One Part Two (The online text we're using is located at Project Gutenberg, here.) Vanity Fair After leaving Talkative behind, Christian and Faithful ...
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Dangerous Journey, Part 5

  CHAPTER FIVE: The Valley of the Shadow Today's Theme: God With Us Today, following on the heels of his fight with Apollyon and his ...
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Dangerous Journey, Part 4

This post is part of our Pilgrim's Progress read along during our Reformation Month celebration.  You can find an introduction and sign up for an ...
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The Pilgrim’s Progress 2: Salvation Highway

Introduction Part One Slackers and Interlopers Right away, Christian learns that salvation is not for sissies!  The sleeping men have for various reasons failed to ...
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Dangerous Journey, Part 2

  Chapter Two: The Interpreter's House Today's Theme: A Burden Lost, Heaven Gained In this section, Christian comes into the Wicket Gate, is taught by ...
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Pilgrim’s Progress: From the City of Destruction to the Cross

This is Part One of our read along of The Prilgrim's Progress for high school age and up.  Here's the Introduction. The City of Destruction ...
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Dangerous Journey, Part 1

Welcome to our Pilgrim's Progress Read Along, part Redeemedreader.com's Reformation Month celebration!  We'll be pursuing two tracks over the month of October, 2011--this one for ...
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That Hideous Strength 4: Denouement

For earlier posts, start with the Introduction. Denouement is not a common word in everyday conversation, so for a long time I didn’t know how ...
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Christ in Literature: Symbolism (pt. 4)

In my last post of this series, I looked at two ways that the Lord wrote Christ in the Old Testament: historically and symbolically.  As ...
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That Hideous Strength 2: Development

Previous Posts: Introduction Part One: Setup Almost all the main characters have been introduced and the potential conflicts are in place.  Now development: that phase ...
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The Abolition of Man, Part One

(Beginning a three-part study intended to accompany our reading of  That Hideous Strength this month.) In February of 1943 Lewis delivered three evening lectures at ...
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That Hideous Strength: An Introduction

In the summer of 1945, George Orwell wrote a review for the Manchester Evening News, beginning, "On the whole, novels are better when there are ...
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Christ in Literature: History (pt. 3)

In my previous post, I tried to show that Sally Lloyd Jones uses two broad ways of finding Christ in the Old Testament: 1) historical ...
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Dystopia, Part Two

(Find Part One here) Besides being uniformly grim, there are other traits the current crop of dystopian novels share: A post-apocalyptic future--the story opens after ...
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Dystopia: Dead Ahead

Part One How's this for a scenario: In the future, the USA has been divided into thirteen districts, and the most prosperous oppresses all the ...
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