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8.Matthew 26:42.

9.Matthew 26:46a.

CHAPTER 7: Promptings for Parenthood.

1.For more information on this concept, see author Gary Chapman's books on the five love languages.

2.Shauna published a book in 2007 t.i.tled, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life, (Zondervan), in which she recounts the details and tough lessons learned during this era of life.

CHAPTER 8: When G.o.d Speaks through Others.

1.2 Samuel 12:1a3, NCV.

2.2 Samuel 12:5, NCV.

3.2 Samuel 12:7a, NCV.

4.2 Samuel 12:13, NCV.

CHAPTER 9: Whispers That Change the World.

1.Psalm 106:3.

2.Psalm 140:12.

3.Isaiah 1:17.

4.Isaiah 61:8.

5.Micah 6:8.

6.Luke 11:42.

7.See Exodus 22:25.

8.See Deuteronomy 15.

9.Zechariah 7:11ba12a.

10.See 2 Corinthians 8:9; Proverbs 19:17; Matthew 25:31a46.

11.Undoubtedly, the best book I have read on the subject of extreme poverty is Bryant Myers's Walking with the Poor (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1999). Your heart never will be the same after you understand the truth about poverty in our world. Read at your own risk!

12.Number estimated from statistics in the 2006 United Nations Human Development Report.

13.Michael Emerson and Christian Smith, Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

14.Ibid., 22.

15.C. S. Lewis, ”The Inner Ring,” The Weight of Glory (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965), 58. The essay was originally a Memorial Lecture at King's College, University of London, delivered in 1944 and was originally published in the collection Transposition and Other Addresses in 1949. For a fascinating discussion of this concept of the Inner Ring, go to lewissociety.org/innerring.php.

16.Emerson and Smith, Divided by Faith, 14.

17.Ibid, 93.

18.Ibid, 94.

19.Matthew 5:44.

20.Matthew Soerens and Jenny Hw.a.n.g, Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compa.s.sion and Truth in the Immigration Debate (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2009).