Begin Again
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2. W. E. Vine, Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Original Greek Words with Their Precise Meanings for English Readers (McLean, VA: MacDonald Publishing, n.d.), 554.
Chapter 14: Be You
1. Adapted from Joel Osteen, Every Day a Friday: How to Be Happier 7 Days a Week (New York: FaithWords, 2011), 131–32.
Chapter 15: Share What God Has Given
1. Barbara Bressi-Donahue, “Friends of the Ring,” Reader’s Digest, June 1999, 154.
2. David Jeremiah, Acts of Love (Gresham, OR: Vision House, 1994), 92.
3. Bressi-Donahue, “Friends,” 153–60.
Chapter 16: Love Those in Need
1. Gene Weingarten, “Pearls before Breakfast,” Washington Post, April 8, 2007, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/pearls-before-breakfast-can-one-of-the-nations-great-musicians-cut-through-the-fog-of-a-dc-rush-hour-lets-find-out/2014/09/23/8a6d46da-4331-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html.
2. Frederick Dale Bruner, The Churchbook: Matthew 13–28 (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1990), 918.
3. David Aikman, Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century (Nashville: Word Publishing, 1998), 199–221, 224.
Chapter 18: Reserve Judgment of Life’s Storms
1. Ecclesiastes 7:8.
2. Romans 12:12.
3. Matthew 6:34.
Chapter 20: Listen for the Song of the Whip-poor-will
1. Augustine, Confessions I.i, as quoted in Peter Kreeft, Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989), 49. The inspiration for this essay about the whip-poor-will is drawn from Kreeft’s description in “The Nightingale in the Heart,” 51–54.
2. With appreciation to Landon Saunders for this idea.
3. Augustine, Confessions.