Donkey In the Living Room Giveaway Winners
The Donkey In the Living Room Giveaway Winners: Special thanks to everyone who entered our Donkey In the Living Room giveaway via Facebook, Twitter, and this blog. We're thrilled to give away 3 complete Donkey in the Living Room sets (book+toy), as well as 10 hardcover books to the winners below whose names were chosen through an online randomizer.
Family Christmas Giveaway: The Donkey In the Living Room
This children's Christmas book, which I first self-published in 2012, helps families begin a tradition that celebrate the true meaning of Christmas by engaging the stories of each manger scene figure on the days leading up to Christ's birth. To celebrate the remake and launch of this book, my publisher has graciously agreed to give away 3 Nativity Toy Sets and 10 books to blog readers and online supporters like you. To enter, just leave a comment on this blog post and tell me which little loved ones--in your family, in your circle of friends, in your church etc.--who you are entering in the giveaway.
An Important Observation From Sodom and Gomorrah: Welcome People, Care For Them
We don't know, in this instance, how many survivors were left behind in the cities or in the surrounding areas. And we also don't know whether those survivors were unified enough or resourced enough to go and retrieve Lot and the others. It's perhaps likely the remaining people in this region weren't connected enough to their individual neighbors to even know who Lot was, let alone to notice if he was missing. After all, Ezekiel 16 paints Sodom as lacking much sense of community.
“This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.” - Ezekiel 16:49-50
Why Fostering and Maintaining Relationships Should Be Among Christians’ Core Doctrines
...The thing I am drawn to, in either case (or even if some other idea I’m unaware of ended up being true) is the US. No matter what explanation you favor, scholarship suggests there was an us.
That all of life began with a God in relationship, inviting other beings to move with him.
How Has Technology (or Other Things) Changed Society: Your Invitation to Vent, Soapbox, and Brag
What social norms or behaviors from the past do you miss? You can comment on this post with a specific social behavior or trait you miss...or you can just give me some general observations. It doesn't matter if you can clearly put your finger on what EXACTLY is missing. Grab your soapbox and say anything you want. It'll all help with this exploration, I promise.
Also, feel free to insert your two cents on this as well: Which new widely accepted social behaviors do you suspect aren't good for society?