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Our testimony is not a prepared speech stuck in the past but is a living reality of the only true life that is within us, who is Christ. source

The Shoveletter

Posted January 1, 2001 - 1:00am

Back in 1995, before I got hooked up online, I published a good news letter called Grace Notes. Every article was centered around the radical truth of Jesus Christ as our life. Some of those articles are included in the shovel web site to this day. Of course, the mechanics of producing a paper newsletter is quite time consuming and costly, so I gave up on that venture after a couple years, though it wasn't much later that I discovered the ease of such a project on the Internet. I would have kept the Grace Notes name, but after a search turned up at least one other Christian publication by that name I decided to come up with something altogether different and original. After settling on the web site name of theshovel.net, the extended name, Shoveletter, was a piece of cake.

As the Shoveletter got longer and more in-depth I decided to create another email letter called The Spoonful for shorter non-serial articles. Don't forget to check that section out.

Choose a category on the Shoveletter menu, and that will give you a list of articles from the given year to select. I love to hear back from those who are touched by what I have written.

You may also view SHOVELETTERS BY SERIES.

Jim :)

Last updated on September 21, 2010 - 5:35pm.

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    The delusion of our ability to control sinful desires is powerful when we're caught up in it. For the persistent belief that some imagined godly principle, pattern, or law can get us out of our messes is the very thing that keeps us bound.

  • God, the Avenger? - June 01, 2012

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    .....wheres the testimony to the miracle in these verses...looks like God is demanding purity from man, which is impossible ... and what of God being an avenger of such things?...

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    Hi Jim. Another good spoonful !