Stephanie Ciccarelli

Lover of tea, a good book and the cottage life. Co-Founder of Lake. Appreciator of goodness, beauty and truth.

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@LesleyNieuwoudt @MichelleDLesley Agreed!

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@megbasham @5pointNat So beautifully written, Megan. Praying for you!

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@TheNorfolkLion Praying for you! Daily Bible reading is life-changing. Bear in mind that there will be many things (or people) that distract or discourage you from it as you try to make Bible reading part of your daily life. It is the one book that changes everything.

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@mattvanswol He is precious!

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@mattvanswol That’s amazing! Thank you for sharing.

[Jake Lundahl @LundahlHorses]

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.

In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.

He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.

Absolute legend.

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@mattvanswol Praying for all affected in WNC. How are the families who live closest to this doing?

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@honeymoon250 All 20!

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

One thing you notice when you read pretty much anything written more than 100 years ago is just how impoverished and bland and limited our language has become. People spoke and wrote in a kind of effortlessly rich and descriptive way that almost no one does today. On this site a lot of people write almost exclusively in cliches and internet lingo. A lot of people speak like that too. The language contracts, our conversational vocabulary shrinks more and more over time. And the more limited we become in our language, the more limited we are in our thinking.

[Justin Peters @JustinPetersMin]

Beautifully said, young man. You are 100% correct.

This young man just displayed more biblical wisdom and spiritual maturity in less than two minutes than Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Greg Locke, Jesse Duplantis, Joel Osteen, Bill Johnson, Kris Vallotton, Patricia King, etc., and anyone who endorses any of the above has in their entire lives.

[Justin Peters @JustinPetersMin]

And this is the beauty of a world that is fallen. Imagine the new Earth.

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

John MacArthur brilliantly explaining why we don't need to agonize over trying to understand how God's sovereignty and human responsibility work together:

"People say, 'Oh, I can't understand election and I can't understand how it fits with choice.'

Look, I can't understand a lot of things, and you know what it proves to me? No man wrote this Bible, because man would never have written a book with so many absolutely inexplicable mysteries. And the fact that we have those apparent paradoxes which we can't resolve is one of the greatest proofs that God wrote the Bible, because whoever wrote this has a mind beyond my mind.

I'm so glad I can't understand everything in the Bible. If I could understand everything in the Bible, it would be written by someone like me, and we'd be in a lot of trouble. I want a God who knows more than I do.

So you just have to live with that. When we come to a passage that talks about people choosing to believe in Christ, preach it with all your heart, and when you come to a passage that talks about them being chosen before the foundation of the world, preach it with all your heart.

And when people say, 'How do you reconcile that?' Say, 'I don't have to. I just believe it.'

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@JoshuaBarzon Seat 7 or seat 3.

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@peaklass1 Such beautiful content! Thank you for sharing your gift with us all. Your posts inspire many a vacation and trip, I am sure!

[5 Solas @5Solas]

Jesus is Lord. You don't make him Lord, you submit to Him as Lord.

[Samuel Sey @SlowToWrite]

We already know that.

Signed,
Christians

[Stephanie Ciccarelli @StephCiccarelli]

@mattvanswol Golden retrievers are the best!

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

John MacArthur explains the greatest gospel verse in the Bible:

2 Corinthians 5:21 - “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

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@sola_chad Revelation

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@MbarkCherguia That is a pond! Writing from Canada.