Oprah Winfrey and the Christian
Should Christians watch Oprah? Friends, I’m having a hard time with a definite answer with this, and you know me, I’m always ready with a Yes or No. I thought I had my answer, wrote up my post to publish yesterday, then I started thinking of the people, the Christians, who may take what they [...]
January 28, 2009
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Monica Brand · 
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Tags: Bible, Christianity, culture, Eat Pray Love, encouragement, Internet, Oprah Winfrey, sin · Posted in: Believing, Thinking
The importance of learning truth
My mom as a young woman, before I was born, worked at a large bank in Manhattan. As a bank employee, she was trained to recognize counterfeit bills. Down in the basement of the bank, my mother counted bill after bill, touching, feeling the money. She learned color, texture, weight of the paper. My mom, [...]
December 4, 2008
· Monica Brand · 6 Comments
Tags: Bible, Christianity, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert · Posted in: Believing, Reading, Thinking
More thoughts on church: I’ll not give up
Sunday wasn’t the happy Sabbath it could’ve been; you figured that out from Tuesday’s post. I didn’t write that snippet of life to stab my church. I love my church, that’s why it hurts much when it doesn’t feel reciprocal. I realize this is a public forum for personal church problems. I have no intention [...]
October 9, 2008
· Monica Brand · 9 Comments
Tags: Bible, Christianity, church, love · Posted in: Believing
A Bible on wheels might say, “ROOV”
Or zoom zoom. I have two interesting finds for you today, the first is: Bible Across America From the website: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, the best-selling translation with more than 300 million copies in print, Zondervan has launched Bible Across America, a cross-country RV tour. [...]
October 4, 2008
· Monica Brand · 5 Comments
Tags: Bible, community, friends, Twitter · Posted in: Believing, Internet culture
I’m not afraid of death
Doc isn’t in the hospital, I’m thankful to God for that, but the hubs isn’t out of the woods yet. Get it? Woods. Like when you go camping in the woods (which we will not be doing this weekend, not surprisingly). All this craziness with infection, back and forth to the doctor and hospital, really [...]
May 19, 2008
· Monica Brand · 3 Comments
Tags: Bible, death, Jesus Christ · Posted in: Believing, Living
Q and A
You ask the question Why? I answer Who. Hallelujah! Habakkuk 1:2-5 Habakkuk’s Complaint 2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and [...]
May 1, 2008
· Monica Brand · No Comments
Tags: Bible, justice · Posted in: Believing, Thinking
