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• Girl, Wash Your Face (Book Review)

  

  By Elizabeth Prata1. HOW (CHRISTIAN-ISH) PEOPLE GET FAMOUSIt's no longer just movies or television that launches the latest It Girl celebrity. It's social media. Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• An Encouragement: Keep a Tender Conscience

  

  By Elizabeth PrataI hope this fine late summer week has offered you beautiful glimpses of God's creative intellect and His wonderful power. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• "Evil is a Made-up Concept"

  

  By Elizabeth Prata"I'm a good person""People are basically good.""There's no such thing as evil.""Can we all just get along? Can we get along? Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Driving Through a Rainbow

  

  By Elizabeth PrataWe had a marvelous church service this afternoon. We meet from 3:00 to 4:30, talk a while after, then head to small groups at various... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Day in the Life of a Seller of Purple

  

  By Elizabeth PrataFirst in a series.What was a day in the life like for a person who lived in New Testament Bible times? It depended on what trade the person... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Prata Potpourri: Women's Edition

  

  By Elizabeth PrataWhen I drive to work each morning I am so thankful for it all. I'm thankful always, of course, but in the mornings with the sun glowing pink,... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Movie Review- Spotlight; a Must See

  

  By Elizabeth PrataGrowing up, I didn't know that the Catholic Church wasn't a church. I thought it was THE Church. I thought all churches were the same, except... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Prata's Place / Graceful Garlands 49: Simply Sophisticated

  

  By Elizabeth PrataMy title comes fromHear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Day in the Life Of: Introduction

  

  By Elizabeth PrataDo you enjoy reading the Bible? I do. Too often though, I allow my mind to drift to the novelization of it, laying aside that this book... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sunday Word of the Week: Omniscience

  

  By Elizabeth PrataThe thread of Christianity depends on a unity from one generation to the next of mutual understanding of our important words. Hence the Word o... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Why the Book of Revelation Should Be Energizing and Reviving to the Christian

  

  I found the book of Revelation one of the easiest to understand. Its intent for the reader is plain to read, it has its own built-in study guide, and contains... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• On Empowerment

  

  By Elizabeth PrataWe hear so much these days about women being empowered. Needing empowerment. Wanting power. We hear from the feminists that women in today's... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Can You Quit Being a Christian?

  

  This essay appeared on The End Time on August 5, 2010.By Elizabeth PrataAnn Rice is famous for her vampire series of books, her bi-sexual erotica, and her very... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Different Kinds of God's Wrath

  

  By Elizabeth PrataThomas Hooker, a Puritan preacher of the 1600s, said in his book The application of redemption by the effectual work of the word, and spirit o... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Good Funeral, Part 2

  

  By Elizabeth PrataA Good Funeral, Part 1I went to a funeral last weekend.There's something different about a Christian funeral.Backing up some, growing up, our... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Good Funeral, Part 1

  

  Our fleshly tent is so fragile. When the blood stops pumping, the heart stills, the last breath exits, the body is only a husk. Temporal, feeble, weak, our fles... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Sunday Word of the Week: Heresy

  

  By Elizabeth PrataThe thread of Christianity depends on a unity from one generation to the next of mutual understanding of our important words. Hence the Word o... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• An Encouragement

  

  By Elizabeth PrataI greet you all and with good news that He loves us and is waiting to call us, His bride, home to Him soon. He is preparing the place in... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• How to Obtain Faith?

  

  By Elizabeth PrataThis post first appeared on The End Time in September 2011. It's been slightly edited.--------------------------------------Many people believ... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• On a Life in Service

  

  By Elizabeth PrataOriginal cast of the classic PBS period drama, Upstairs, DownstairsDo you remember the original Upstairs, Downstairs TV show? The show ran on... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2018 SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY