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Parenting Challenges Can Bring Unexpected Blessings
Parenting challenges can come with unexpected blessings. When Paul and I married in 2000, we decided to have kids right away. I had spent eleven years as a single parent and looked forward to having a...
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Happily Ever After
“…and they all lived happily ever after,” is the usual ending to a fairytale. From the time we are little, this is what we dream of – finding that one true love and living happily ever after. I’ve had...
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Pray Without Ceasing.
Pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17 NKJV I came across the titles of Mark Batterson’s Circle series among the one of the lovely groups I belong to on Goodreads. Several of the group were...
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Making Time for Daily Prayer
As I’m writing this, we’re sitting in the Outer Banks of North Carolina waiting for Hurricane Arthur. Hatteras Island was under mandatory evacuation as of 5 a.m. on Thursday, but around here we feel...
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The Power of Prayer
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places....
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The Heart of a Child
Before leaping into the New Year pause and consider your dreams for your child to grow to be a boy or girl of great character, filled with the Fruit of the Spirit. Review the list and consider what...
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Creating Thankful Hearts
O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. I Chronicles 16:34 Our houses overflowed with gifts in celebration of the Greatest Gift, but the Lord loads us up with...
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What Does the Future Hold?
Ahhh…new year. Clean slate. New beginning. Twelve months of potential. But not everyone is optimistic about the future. Some say that if the past is any indication, we’re in for big trouble in 2018....
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Happy New Year!
Colorful Confetti Happy 2018! Another year is behind us; another year is ahead of us. The beginning of a new year often inspires people to set goals like finishing a project, eating healthier (after...
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All Creation Declares the Glory of God
As a parent and grandparent, I read lots of books to children before realizing that many of them present the world to these impressionable little minds as subjective facts – this is a cow, a tractor, a...
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Book Review: Maybe God is Like That Too, and a Giveaway!
Out of all the wonderful children’s picture books I read in 2017, one stands out. Maybe God is Like That Too, written by author Jennifer Grant and published by Sparkhouse Family, is a lovely little...
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Book Review: Too Big by Judy Dearborn Nill
■Too Big ■Author: Judy Dearborn Nill ■Pages: 161 ■Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing (October 22, 2016) ■ISBN-10: 1616338075 ■ISBN-13: 978-1616338077 ■SRP: $9.95 ■Reviewed By: Cheryl Malandrinos...
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Do We Infect our Children with Jesus or Inoculate Them Against Him?
35170104 – illustration of kids standing happily in front of a church Do our children enjoy coming to church? This is a good question to ask and a very important one. This question gets a lot of...
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Bible Verse Activities for Kids-Acts 16:31
I remember memorizing Bible verses as a kid. My mom would make word puzzles and activities for them, and I loved it. Many of the ones I learned then are the ones that God most often brings to my mind...
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Reaching Forward
…but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus....
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Courageous Parenting: Training Up a Child in the Way He Should Go
I sat in the large courtroom, awaiting my court case involving a minor traffic accident in which a delivery truck had struck my car. The judge was hearing another case before mine. I watched intently...
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I’m An Empath!
Loving Others – Empathy In a recent article for a natural magazine that I happened to pick up at my local vitamin store, there was a description of a book called The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life...
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You Won’t Miss What You Never Had
You won’t miss what you never had. The thought came, unbidden, as a dozen of us sat around the piano one Saturday night. It was the final evening of a writers conference and most of the conferees and...
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No Matter the Weather
I once heard someone say, “If it weren’t for weather, what would people talk about!” It’s really true, isn’t it? I think it’s because weather is one of those topics that provides comfortable...
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Spiritual Compost
Compost Bin Compost is interesting stuff. You take old scraps, weeds, rotting debris and unwanted vegetable matter and pile them all in a heap. You can turn the pile over from time to time to speed up...
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