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Are you a Jonah?
Only 32 more days to go in our adventure! Did you do your homework? Are you still working on it today? If you are that’s totally fine. Don’t forget the other tasks that go with this unit: healthy choices, not judging others, pray for those that you have negative thoughts about, avoiding temptation, and…
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Be Real
Happy Monday students! I hope you are completing all of your assignments. Today you were supposed to listen to your heart and start fighting temptations. We’ve come a long way in 6 days. These forty days are going to be like mathematics. They will culminate or build on one another. Back row go ahead and…
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Temptation
Luke 4:1-13 Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert and was tempted Happy Sunday students! Sundays are always busy for me. I go to church early and teach the high school religion class and then attend church. After that we always share a meal together with family. By the time I get home…
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What a sinner?
Luke 5:27-32 I did not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners. Students we have made it four days! Today reading this verse I always chuckle. We are so like the Pharisees. We want to point out all the dusty old sinners. Or say things like, “Why are you hanging out with those…
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Fasting
True Fasting Isaiah 58:5-9 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you…
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40 days with Sal
SAL aka Petunia Pig Psalm 51 (50):12 Create a pure heart for me, O God; / renew a steadfast spirit within me. Yesterday we kicked off our Lenten season with Ash Wednesday. Remember students we are focusing on our hearts. Did you do your homework? As I read and studied this morning this verse popped…
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Forty Days with Sal: Rend Your Heart
Rend your hearts, not your garments. “Even now, says the Lord, / return to me with your whole heart, / with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; / Rend your hearts, not your garments, / and return to the Lord, your God.” Happy Ash Wednesday! I reflected all day today about our forty blog adventure. Ash Wednesday is a time that we give up or offer…
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Hypocrite
In my mind today, I’ve had so much going on since January. All of it hasn’t been pleasant. I know you have been thinking Ms. Alley must be on a sabbatical. I promise I’m going to try to write more using the new technology. I’ve been avoiding it because of my lack of strength…
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