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After this puppet show book talk, you might be inspired to read Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. "' I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!' . . .  'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.' " Rudyard Kipling

Artist: Original Jonathan Album: Oasis Year: 2011 originaljonathan.blogspot.com "Then [the Israelites]  came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water. " Exodus 15:27 ESV

Words: William P. Merrill  Music: William H. Walter Singers: Oklahoma Christian University Recorded: October 18, 2013 Rise up, O men of God! Have done with lesser things; Give heart and soul and mind and strength To serve the King of kings. Rise up, O men of God! His kingdom tarries long; Bring in the day of brotherhood, And end the night of wrong. Rise up, O men of God! The Church for you doth wait, Her strength unequal to her task; Rise up and make her great. Lift high the cross of Christ; Tread where His feet have trod; As brothers of the Son of man, Rise up, O men of God! listen here " Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. " 1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV

If you're planning to take a flight somewhere, I highly recommend using Google Flights to help. After you enter the locations and dates,  Google Flights will display a variety of options from various airlines . You can see results for round trip, one way, or multi-city. You can limit your search by the number of stops, airline, outbound and arrival times, connecting airports, and flight duration.  With the price graph, you can move your cursor along the bar chart to see the varying prices for the length of trip you want (e.g., 21 days). Once you've made a selection, Google will sometimes make suggestions in the results. For example, if it's cheaper to fly out a day earlier or to fly into a different airport from the one you selected, it will probably tell you that at the top of the results. You can also track prices for a specific date/location selection—if you want to get emails when there are significant price changes. Once you actually select a flight, return fli

Artist: Josh Garrels Album: Love & War & the Sea in Between Year: 2011 Farther along, we'll know all about it. Farther along, we'll understand why. So cheer up my brothers; live in the sunshine. We'll understand this all by and by. Tempted and tried, I wondered why the good man dies, bad man thrives, and Jesus cries cause he loves 'em both. We're all cast-aways in need of rope, hangin' on by the last threads of our hope. In a house of mirror full of smoke, confusing illusions I've seen. But where did I go wrong? I sang along to every chorus of the song that the devil wrote like a piper at the gate, leading mice and men down to their fate. But some will courageously escape the seductive voice with a heart of faith while walkin' the line back home. There's so much more to life than we've been told. It's full of beauty that will unfold and shine like new-struck gold, my wayward son. The deadweight burden w