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Hey! It’s a whole new world this morning. Sweat isn’t snaking down my back! The air conditioner is taking a well-earned break. Hallelujah it’s not 100 degrees outside anymore!Awhile ago I mentioned an online "reflections" or "devotions" site for women. I want to mention it again. at first I politely listened (well, acted like I was listening) and nodded when my very-liturgical, Lutheran friend told me about this website created for women by women at her former church in Minneapolis. A bunch of suburban, Lutheran, midwestern women didn’t seem like my idea of on-fire God-chasers. I didn’t think this online…

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. — Romans 8:18In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. — 1 Peter 1:6There are two kinds of grace for the Christian: present and future grace. Future grace allows us to acknowledge the pain of the present without getting lost in it. Yes, the boss may yell, the spouse may be difficult to live with, injury may be present, suffering may occur, but, for the believer,…

WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to "acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people," and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans. Read more. Read the whole speech.Obama Critiqued – by Peter Wood