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Young women love God Greatly

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 I was truly blessed with a great selection of Bibles to review for Thomas Nelson. Before my brother went overseas as a chef in the Middle East, he told me about the NET translation. As a nonnative English speaker it was a version he could understand and easily translate into the numerous languages he speaks. It is a great resource for communicating eternal truths. In 1995 the NET Bible translation project began at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature as an English version for distribution over the internet. Thus the “NET” Bible’s name. It was begun back when there was no free online Bible sites, like “pre-google” for those young  people who don’t remember the dark ages before internet, or what a BBS is. Bible translations have copyrights and limit the number of verses you can publish without paying royalties. This was a revolutionary idea to get the Bible online free to anyone. Another goal they had was to keep it continually updated and to make corrections as need
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Milwaukee Airport used books?

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 Yes, right there in the airport is a used bookstore.  You may be tempted to tell your airport pickup the flight is delayed so you can stay and browse the shelves. I picked up a first edition on the Jews of Milwaukee and an oragami fairy tale kit for playing with the kinderlach. Vacations are always better with books.
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Inklings Bookstore

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 I never expected to go to Sheboigan Wisconsin, but when your kids go to college in the Midwest sometimes they marry and stay in the Midwest. Our oldest is working on her masters in basically inklings and inkling adjacent writers through Urbana Theological Seminary. Which means we had to stop in at the most perfect little book shop, Inklings. Highly recommend.
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5 years

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  This photo was taken 5 years ago at 9:30 in the morning. The town was on fire. 90 % of what we knew to be Paradise was destroyed. I had a similar feeling August 24, 1992, when the news said “Homestead no longer exists” in the wake of Hurricane Andrew destroying our home and the town of Homestead.  We survived, we have made it through. G-d has been faithful to us. 
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The Bible Study Bible for those who Study the Bible

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 Growing up on the East Coast, mostly MidAtlantic region, my mother was a new believer and she also was unlicensed so we went places we could walk to or we hosted friends at our house.  Our home was rarely empty. There were single GIs who were far from home and became our family. There were the military families with wives from foreign lands who filled our plates with unpronounceable dishes made with spices. And while my dad was at work, the house would be filled with lots of little kids who came to play while our mothers STUDIED the Bible. And because we could walk to a base chapel, if they had something going on, we were there. VBS which lasted 2 weeks back then, Awana , choir, midweek worship and Bible study.  And mom had her Bible with her everywhere she went. I thought this was pretty normal. All my mom’s friends carried sacred tomes and notebooks and fountain pens and highlighters. These were the women who made studious escapades and retreats attainable and they didn’t just have
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Thompson Chain Reference- KJV

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Thompson Chain Reference Bible has long been the Bible for in-depth study.  According to Wikipedia “  Dr. Frank Charles Thompson, in the early 1900s, but the original work was started in 1890. Thompson was born in 1858, in   Elmira ,   New York , and was ordained in 1879. His wife was Laura Boughton Thompson. He began work on the system because of his dissatisfaction with the reference Bibles that were then available to preachers: Dr. Thompson believed the Bible should be presented in a simple, but scholarly way. He saw the need for a well-organized reference Bible that would be of practical use to the layman as well as a minister. In 1890, Dr. Thompson began the work he would continue for the rest of his life. He completed the "thought suggestions" opposite the verses throughout the Bible. These are what became the "chain-links" that are the heart of the Thompson system. Dr. Thompson created these chain link topics (4,000 of them) leadership by from verse to verse
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Everyday with Jesus Bible- CSB

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  My friend Rhonda Stoppe once said that as the wife of a pastor who has a church in California that we were “called to California”. Still not a phrase I am completely comfortable with, but she isn’t wrong.  California has held 7 generations of my father’s family, maybe 8. My husband’s pastorate will hold its 125th anniversary which is extra amazing given how many churches were destroyed in the fire of 2018 as it swept through our town. But I still don’t consider myself to be a Californian. Seven schools by age 7 can do that to you, let alone 2 continents and 3 countries. Which brings me first to the artwork of the Bible we will look at in this post. I totally saw California Golden poppies. They are absolutely not botanically correct for a poppy. They aren’t even passable as a poppy but that is still what my heart saw. Silly girl. Being the start of the Gregorian calendar year, this is often the season of new reading plans, new resolutions and goals. This seemed like a good time to sta
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