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The Year of Living Biblically

Posted on May 15, 2011 by mizparker

One passage which stuck with me was when he questions why God would need to be praised all of the time – if he is the greatest being in the universe, surely he doesn’t have a self-esteem problem which would require constant reassurance.

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