Tina The Storyteller

  We love asking questions around the dinner table every night. It's a tradition that we've been enjoying for several years. I could not be more excited when this little box showed up on our doorstep. Here's how you know that it's something worth getting, our teenager often reaches for the box to be able to be the one to pick out the evening question and she often picks out more than one. There are five categories and they are separated by tabbed cards making it easy to choose which topic to discuss. The questions are open-ended and because there are so many of them, there's always another one if you don't like the one you pulled.  From the creator:  With one question on each beautifully designed card, this unique deck offers individuals and families a launching pad to topics in five categories--Family & Friends, Fun & Entertainment, Faith, Travel, and Then & Now:    •    What is something you own that is really old and why do you hang on t...

  The Story King is the third book in the Sunlit Lands series ( The Crescent Stone and The Heartwood Crown are books one and two).  If you've been reading my blog for a while, you know that Matt Mikalatos is one of my favorite theologians and I try my best to get my hands on and read and share all of his titles. No surprise then that I loved The Story King.  Mikalatos does a great job of wrapping up all the stories and filling in all the right holes while leaving enough mystery for the story to have a life of its own. In much the same way that The Final Battle from the Narnia series helps explain the beginning of the story, The Story King does so for the Sunlit Lands. Even though it's an ending, it's rooted very deeply in the beginning of the story and how we don't have to let broken things stay broken because that's the way it's always been. If pressed very hard to sum up the entire series, I would say that the story we believe about ourselves helps shape th...

  This is a review for the Growing Slow Bible study that is a companion bible study for the Growing Slow book by Jennifer Dukes Lee. I have not read the book, but I have taken a look at the bible study and wanted to share what I liked about it with you.  This is a six-week study, you can use the book by yourself or with a group. Here's what I like about it, it's straightforward enough that anyone can pick it up and find some encouragement but it's also got enough open-ended questions that those who  have been in studies for a long time can grow, too. Not having read the book doesn't detract from the study but it does increase the desire to read the book to explore the ideas presented a little more in-depth. I used the Kindle version of the book for review purposes, if you do the same, I'd recommend having a journal available to be able to write down and capture the ideas and scriptures that are in the study.  Overall, I'd recommend this study for anyone who fe...