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To Those Who Stand and Wait: A Reflection on John Milton’s “Sonnet XIX”

Post author By The Valley
Post date July 3, 2024
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We live in a culture of full schedules and frenetic activity. An aspiring college applicant fills her time with co-curricular activities and volunteer hours to set herself apart from the thousands of other applicants to her dream school. The businessman stays late at the office yet again even though he’s already over 60 hours this […]

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Anchors for the Soul: The Cloud of Witnesses and the Crowd of Witnesses

Post author By The Valley
Post date March 13, 2024
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I (Melissa) have referenced The Thinklings Podcast often on this blog, and the hosts have been gracious to let me share material from various podcast episodes with you. Last year, one of the hosts, Andy Stearns (a professor at Faith Baptist Bible College in Ankeny, Iowa), experienced the deep, hard valley of the loss of […]

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