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HAGAR – OUR GOD WHO SEES AND HEARS YOU

Welcome to Week 8 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 …

Feeling Undone by the Pain of Parenting?

From Cheri: I recently had the privilege of interviewing Michele Cushatt, author of Undone: a Story of Making Peace with an Unexpected Life. Today, I’m thrilled to share a bit our our discussion with you, and have Michele tell you about Undone Life Together: a 5-Week Conversation About the Unexpected Life that starts February 22. ***** Cheri: In Undone, you share about your “comfort addiction.” I’d never heard anyone talk about comfort as addiction. Michele: I believe this now more than ever before. This is more a product of American culture than anywhere else. From the moment we are born, we have been promised comfort; from the moment we …

5 Steps to Living a Joy-Filled Life

Why can’t you spot a Christian on the sidewalk out of the crowd? Should we be able to tell a Christian from a non-Christian? We all want to experience the joy of an abundant life that scripture talks about living. But why do most Christians look like everyone else? Because we are missing the secret to living an abundant life… capturing the joy and peace of living in Christ Jesus. I remember one day a few years back, I was at the airport waiting to catch my plane. I was people watching of course, and I saw this woman who looked to be in her sixties sitting …

How to Deal with Rude People

Have you ever experienced a time where at complete stranger was totally rude and offensive? I’m guessing most of us mamas have run into this. “She looks like she’s from another world.” My four kids and I were sitting at the counter at Dunkin Donuts following one of my kiddo‘s well-checks. A sweet treat following a painful shot seemed like a good medicine. The rude observation came from the non-gentleman seated on the stool next to me. By this time, I had become accustom to the bizarre things people say. “Your kids all look like they have different dads,” a non-lady said …

For the Mom Who’s Lost Her Marbles…

I was picking up run-away marbles that morning and grumbling that I was at risk of losing mine when I thought of her. Her hallow eyes loomed in my mind as I crawled on my knees and tried to grab those shiny glass orbs scattered all over the living room carpet again. My four-year-old had been cooking me marble stew since she’d stumbled from bed before sunrise, and my pots and pans were scattered all across the couch. (Um, I mean, the oven with couch- cushion burners.) There was nothing terrible about the hours ahead- just another day of folding laundry and reading picture books, …

DIY Skin Softening Sugar Scrub

Momma’s winter-worn skin deserves this all natural, DIY skin scrub! Click To Tweet Enjoy silky smooth skin as you experience the benefits of your favorite essential oil coupled with coconut oil. Double this easy recipe and give away as gifts! Use the scrub after bathing by applying a small amount with circular motions on wet skin. Rinse well, pat dry. Be super careful not to get any scrub on your feet and slip! “The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of His heart from generation to generation. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people …

HANNAH – WHAT TO DO WHEN GOD IS SILENT

Welcome to Week 7 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 …

Speaking a Good Word

Have you ever had someone speak a good word over you? I have, and it changed me. At least it led to changing me. I have pictured it to the left. When I was 20 years old, I married my Chris. I was a junior in college and transferred from University of Texas in Austin to Texas A&M. I found that at UT, Campus Crusade for Christ was a life-source to me and led me to know Jesus in a way I never had before known. He became my Friend there. I learned to pray there, too. It literally changed …

Lessons in LOVE in Eras of Evil

In a recent meeting in a children’s church class room, I read rules displayed on the wall. “Side hugs only,” it warned. Everything else was about what’s NOT allowed: secrets, piggy backs, carrying, tickling, lap sitting. Are these things all bad? So dangerous? Can’t we be affectionate without being evil? Can’t we use loving touch? Does modern love have to be sterile to be safe? More than ever, our children look to us for lessons in love. An era of evil is a hard time to for a child to learn what love is, and evil reigns today. It’s not the …

You Are the Queen of Your Castle

My husband and I bought our house before we had kids, so at first our home was our baby. We lovingly stripped wallpaper and painted ceilings, refinished floors and installed new appliances. Then we scrubbed and vacuumed the place corner to corner every weekend. A few years later, I held a toilet brush in one arm and a newborn in the other. Picture my toddler capsizing a laundry basket filled with burp rags and Dora pajamas, jumping in the pile, then spilling milk on the carpet just minutes after I’d scrubbed the stain from the day before. With children at …

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