Has anyone else been tempted to get overwhelmed with their own discipling? There are so many things in these last two posts, and again in this one, that speak to me, as I want to disciple my kiddos well. If you feel overwhelmed at… Continue Reading “Practical Parenting Tips for Discipling Kiddos–Part 3”
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Parenting…It feels like a constant chess game, doesn’t it? Over the years, my husband and I have approached parenting many different ways. One way has worked with one kid, but not another; so, we’ve had to “re-strategize.” Each child has moved into different phases… Continue Reading “Practical Parenting Tips for Discipling Kiddos”
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A Bucknell University survey of individuals mostly in their early twenties focused “on how men and women react to relationship situations,…both [men and women] felt that a partner whose love wasn’t equal to their own was worse than unequal sexual attraction…Emotional commitment and sex… Continue Reading “A Sensitive Subject–Is “Love” and Reciprocation the Basis for a Healthy Relationship?”
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Sometimes, lessons are tough. While I knew the LORD wanted me to write about abiding in Him this week, it didn’t hit me until now that He was showing me an example of what it looked like through a situation that developed in our… Continue Reading “What’s it Look Like to Abide?”
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I had no idea what it was. All I saw was brown to my left, felt something powerful hit the driver’s side front of my car, saw a dark shadow right in front of me, and my car came to an immediate stop from… Continue Reading “Wonder–The Additional Offering”
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Happy New Year! We ended last year, celebrating the wonder of Jesus–A Wonder–as displayed in the Judges 13 story of the Old Testament. It would do us well to begin a new year–a year many look forward to as being different than the last…a… Continue Reading “Wonder–Where is the Focus of Your Offering?”
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