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Book Review: The Biggest Story Bible Storybook
The Biggest Story Bible Storybook is a beautiful, hefty hardback with a gorgeous debossed cover and dust jacket. It is heirloom quality, perfect for daily use with your family.
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Book Review: Cloud of Witnesses
Cloud of Witnesses is perhaps the most beautiful prayer book I've encountered. It is a small curated collection of prayers from a wide variety of sources throughout church history. It's a lovely hardback book with gold foil accents and a ribbon marker, perfect for gift-giving.
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Vacation Bible School 2025
We had Vacation Bible School at our church this past week. Our theme this year was "Under Construction." I wanted to compile my resources here for future reference, but I also wanted to share the story of how it all came together.
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Heirloom Bible Story Books
In which I add to my vintage Bible storybook collection. I love how precious the stories are and how important it was to generations past to teach them to their children.
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MawMaw’s Bible
The fourth family Bible in my collection belonged to my paternal grandmother, Annie Matil Jarrell Ezell. She lived from 1919 to 2009. We called her MawMaw.
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Survivalist Fiction
With so many unprecedented things happening this past year I find my mind going down all kinds “what if” rabbit holes. Without a doubt recent months have brought many major changes to life as we know it. Oddly enough, the one that has affected me the most–or at least how I think–was the stupid panic-buying of toilet paper last spring.…
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Granny’s Bible
The third addition to my growing collection of family Bibles belonged to my great-grandmother, Kate Easley. We called her Granny.
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The Shumaker Bible
Heirloom Bibles: Part 2 The second family Bible I have inherited belonged to my great-grandparents, Ernest and Liffa Shumaker. It is even more tattered than the older Maberry Bible. The spine is split down the middle and the cover is literally disintegrating. Also, the first few pages are missing. However, much to my delight, this one does include Family Record…
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The Maberry Bible
Heirloom Bibles: Part 1 “You’ll be getting a package in the mail soon,” my mother told me last fall. “I will?” I asked. “What kind of package?” “Mama ‘Berry’s Bible,” she told me. “Seriously?!” I didn’t know Mama ‘Berry’s Bible was still in existence. Mama ‘Berry was my great-great-grandmother who lived from 1872-1949. I mentioned her last year when I…
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Coventry Carol
Several of the Christmas books I’ve read this month have been as hokey and predictable as a Hallmark movie, but that’s okay. I’ve also been inspired, encouraged… and educated, I guess you’d call it. For example, I learned about a very old carol that I don’t remember hearing of before: “Coventry Carol.” Do you know it? From The Christmas Quilt by…
