Ways to Help Your Children Remember God

In my new book, releasing today, Forsaken God?: Remembering the Goodness of God Our Culture Has Forgotten, I discuss the vital importance of raising up the next generation to not only know God, but insure they have a relationship with Jesus. That means parents must follow biblical guidelines in raising their children. The results will be immediate. parents must follow biblical guidelines in raising their children. The results will be immediate. Click To Tweet Ways to Implement Deuteronomy 6:6-9 in Your Home In the Generation to Generation section of Forsaken God?, I discuss Deuteronomy 6:6-9, where Moses instructed the Israelites …

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JOCHEBED – DESPERATE TIMES, DESPERATE MEASURES

Welcome to Week 6 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: …

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Check out these tips to help you stretch your grocery budget!

Top 10 Ways to Stretch a Grocery Budget

When your grocery budget is stretched tight and you have little money to spare, these tips might help you stretch your dollar further.  My husband and I married at 19 and 20 years old, so we learned early how to survive on very little income. At the time we married, we were both college students working part-time jobs. Looking back now, I’m amazed we were able to live on so little. One good thing about starting out relatively poor, though, was that we learned early how to stretch our money. Here are a few of the things we learned. Top …

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It’s Battle Time!

  “The battle is the Lord’s.” (1 Sam. 17:47b NKJV) Do you ever personalize Scripture? I do. It so encourages me. I happened to be reading 1 Samuel 17. The battle between David and Goliath. I was encouraged and thought I’d encourage you. We all have our battles, don’t we? Have you noticed lately how so many people have so many battles? Even if we aren’t in a battle at the moment, hearing the battles of others makes our hearts ache, doesn’t it? In our battles, we fight an enemy. That age-old enemy. I never give him a name. Just …

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MATRIARCHS – MARY: Stubbornly Inflexible or Sacredly Flexible

WELCOME to WEEK 5 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! Please be sure to email us and let us know if you’re doing a Bible study with your small group or at church!    If you can’t view this video, please click this link. …

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The Moment I Realized I Was Poisoning My Parenting

I was laid bare. My people pleasing, image-conscious tendencies had slowly and steadily infected my mothering. And with one simple question, she had exposed me.  From the outside, everything looked fine. When my kids were young, I remember my sister-in-law telling me, “You all are just the perfect little family!” I knew the truth. If you peered beneath the surface, the picture wasn’t exactly perfect — for a variety of reasons. However, when my oldest turned 12, a powder keg seemed to go off. She began to act out and assert her preteen independence. At the same time, my son was struggling with his own …

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Blessings or Burdens: My Heart Toward My Children

Adjusting to life with four kids has been hard. I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in months. There have been days when I haven’t slept, haven’t had my coffee, haven’t showered, and haven’t homeschooled.    Even as I write this blog, I have a nursing infant attached to my bosom and he won’t let go… and we are under the threat of a severe snowstorm. We are hunkered down and stir crazy. With all that is going on, there are ample opportunities to become frustrated and short with my children, and I have admittedly taken some of them. It …

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When Your Husband is Snared by Sexual Sin

When our husbands are snared in sexual sin, where do we go for answers? Click To Tweet Cassie’s life reflected peaceful perfection. Three beautiful young kids, a stylish new home, all topped off with her handsome husband she adored. They met and fell head-over-heels in love at the young age of eighteen, and now ten years later were joyfully living out the American dream.  Until, that is, venomous pictures popped up without warning early one morning. Images spilling from the screen, forgotten to be deleted from the computer’s history, reached out tearing into this sheltered young mother’s soul. Her tranquil, in-control …

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