MATRIARCHS: Elizabeth – Mom Knows Best or God Knows Best?

Welcome to Week 10 of MATRIARCHS! Study God’s Word with us online or use them in your small group or Sunday School class!  Each lesson includes: Teaching video every Monday (15-20 minutes) Short lesson provided as the content of the post In-depth downloadable PDF to deepen your study Worksheets that take you even deeper ALL LESSONS ARE FREE AND YOU CAN MAKE AS MANY COPIES AS YOU’D LIKE! Week 1: Eve – A Mother Like No Other Week 2: Sarah – Mother of Nations Week 3: Rebekah – Mothering Through Barrenness Week 4: Mary – Stubbornly Inflexible or Sacredly Flexible Week 5: Naomi – Not …

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Parenting Tips to Help Your Family Remember God

“My kids are driving me crazy. I’ve tried everything . . . reasoning with them, yelling at them, taking away privileges, sending them to their rooms. Nothing is helping! My husband and I are exhausted and frustrated and on the verge of losing it.” That’s a paraphrase of one mom’s cry for help on Facebook. She was so desperate that she aired her parenting problems to the world and admitted she and her husband were close to the breaking point. All their usual parenting efforts had failed, and I could tell that she felt like a failure as a parent. …

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Safe and Sound, That’s Where I’m Found!

The snow had been falling for hours, late into the evening, and the news reports were riddled with stories of car accidents, closed roads, and events cancelled due to the weather. I turned off the television. Inside, I was struggling with a spiritual storm of my own. I was just lost in it. Ever felt like that? My heart was aching over something I had no power to fix, and I was doubting that God even cared anymore. In fact, I was sure He didn’t care. But in a last ditch effort to ask for mercy, and for God to …

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Something New Emerging for Praying Grandparents in 2016

  I am the National Prayer Director for Christian Grandparenting Network, and I have a dream to form a movement of A Million Praying Grandparents who will commit to pray intentionally and regularly for their grandchildren and their parents. I want to share my dream/passion with you because I believe you too, share my concern for our grandchildren growing up in the broken world we live in today. The mission of Christian Grandparenting Network is to mobilize grandparents throughout the world to commit to pray daily for their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s parents. In Christian Living Today, a magazine for …

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MATRIARCHS: A Bible Study About Moms and for Moms – This is a life-changing Bible study for moms of ALL ages

MATRIARCHS… the women who went before us… those who paved he way for you and me. From them  we learn how to live and how not to live… how to navigate life, honor God, raise our children to know Him, and leave  legacy worth following. You are invited to study God’s Word with us online or use them in your small group or Sunday School class!  Each lesson includes: Teaching video every Monday (15-20 minutes) Short lesson provided as the content of the post In-depth downloadable PDF to deepen your study Worksheets that take you even deeper ALL LESSONS ARE …

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MATRIARCHS: Bathsheba – Daughter of Abundance

Welcome to Week 9 of MATRIARCHS! Study God’s Word with us online or use them in your small group or Sunday School class!  Each lesson includes: Teaching video every Monday (15-20 minutes) Short lesson provided as the content of the post In-depth downloadable PDF to deepen your study Worksheets that take you even deeper ALL LESSONS ARE FREE AND YOU CAN MAKE AS MANY COPIES AS YOU’D LIKE! Week 1: Eve – A Mother Like No Other Week 2: Sarah – Mother of Nations Week 3: Rebekah – Mothering Through Barrenness Week 4: Mary – Stubbornly Inflexible or Sacredly Flexible Week 5: Naomi – Not …

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How to Afford Homeschool Curriculum on a Small Budget

It’s that time of year again, when all of us homeschoolers are thinking about what we will do for the next school year. In the past, this time of year would have been super hectic trying to pick which curriculum for what subjects I was going to use with my oldest. I have been sort of an “eclectic gatherer” with him as money was tight, and I thought I could not afford a “boxed” curriculum. With some special encouragement from a fellow blogger and a resolve to make our finances work, this year we chose to bite the bullet and …

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Mealtimes Matter

Come Lord Jesus, be our guest. Let this food to us be blessed. Amen. I truly believe from the depths of my heart that mealtimes can be the one activity that consistently connects a family in a special way. (Other than prayer at bedtime).  Every one of us is busy! How to control Mealtime Madness: Ponder – think about what is going to be served. Plan – make and stick to a menu plan at least 3 times a week. Purchase –grocery shop for what is needed for the week or month of meals. Prepare & Preserve – use a …

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Where to Find the YOU You’re Looking For…

I was in seventh grade. It was lunchtime at school and I stood in a circle of friends (there were about six of us), talking about music. “What bands do you like?” the friend across from me asked. She asked the whole group–not me specifically–and I remember being glad about that. I wanted to hear what everybody else said before I chimed in. I wanted to make sure I said something that would fit in. And I remember having a strange realization as I stood there silent, that I didn’t even know what music I liked. After another girl answered, I parroted …

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How to Teach Your Children to Practice Hospitality

  The door to the bakery jingled as I opened it. Inside the bakery were many signs that Valentine’s Day was almost here. Heart-shaped balloons and stuffed teddy bears the size of small children greeted the entrance, and iced cookies personalized with “I Love You” lined the glass shelves, tempting me in all their sugar glory. Love was all around, that was for sure. Approaching the cashier, I told her my name and what I had ordered. She came back with four sets of Valentine’s cookies for my kids’ teachers and two large boxes of assorted cookies for our doctors. …

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