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3 Quick Announcements
While we try to deliver quality content to you each day, every so often we need to take a post to simply share some updates and announcements. Today, we want to share three quick announcements with you that we think will be of interest. 1. Removal of Ads When our site relaunched about 6 weeks ago, you may have noticed that, on the right-hand sidebar there were a couple of advertising boxes. These help us offset the costs of our site, but very little. So, sometime today, we are removing them. We are doing that for two reasons. First, they are distracting. While we tried to keep the boxes fairly…
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How’s Your Family Growing
Recently, a couple of things happened that were not actually related. In my sometimes unusual way of thinking, there might have been a connection. My wife and I hosted our “second annual Cousins Camp.” All of the grandkids were at our house. It was a little — no, make that a LOT — loud for a few days. Thankfully, we had some “counselors” to work with us — our daughter and our daughter-in-law. Cousins Camp is the brainchild of my wife. It is an attempt on our part to help develop and nurture the sense of family that is so important to us. It is also an opportunity for us…
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When Tragedy Strikes the Family
Tragedy struck our church family a few weeks ago. It was a tragedy of the worst kind. Lives were lost and bodies were damaged which will take months to heal. Emotionally the damage was severe to everyone involved. You see a tragic car accident turned a vacation trip for a mother, grandmother, and daughters into a nightmare from which it will take years to recover. Our church family lost one of its vital members. When a tragedy like this strikes a family our hearts hurt to see them going through such hard times. When a physical family is close to one another, as this one was, and one or more…
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Set Your Priorities : Balancing Work and Home as a
“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus…” Philippians 2:5 (NIV) The heart-tugging story has gone viral. A young child wants to know his parent’s hourly wage. The parent is offended thinking that the child is presumptuous to ask and might be using the information to compare his parent’s level of success to that of a classmate’s parent. You know where this is going: the young child simply wanted to how much money was needed in to buy an hour of his parent’s precious time. My question is this: why does this pull at our heart strings so strongly? Could it be that within this…
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6 “Small” Things that Erode Marital Trust
Trust is the taproot of marriage. A marriage that is thriving is one that is built upon godly commitment. While every husband and every wife will make mistakes, when those mistakes cause distrust to build, the marriage is slowly eroding. Sadly, there are some who think they can keep from doing the “big” stuff that would break marital trust (have an affair, for example), but they fail to see the “small” things that are slowly eroding the trust in their marriage. Many even do some of these things intentionally, just to have their “own life” on the side. (Which, by the way, goes against the very fabric of marriage.) What…
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Where the Grass is Greener
“…You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because He no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. But you say, “Why does He not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did He not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.” (Malachi 2:13b-15). If you have…
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Would You Like to Make a Quick $1000?
Now that I have your attention, let me share with you where I got the idea for that title. I heard something interesting the other day about some mothers in New York City who are paying professional organizers to get their children prepared to go to summer camp. The “going rate” for these professional organizers is $250 per hour. According to one of the organizers, it usually takes about four hours to get the kids ready. After all, they just must have the proper soaps, shampoos, scented candles, sheets, etc. Everything must be in place in order for the kids to have “all the comforts of home.” So — if…
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Friday’s Family Friendly Finds {July 4, 2014 edition}
Happy birthday, USA! We hope you are having a great Fourth of July, and are able to spend some time with people you love. Don’t forget to take a moment to consider all the wonderful things that have been done to help the United States be the nation she is. Certainly, we have our problems, but I’m thankful to be a citizen of this country. Next week, there will be five posts as usual, but the Friday post will not be our usual family links. We have a special post ready for you for next Friday (as well as every other day next week). Now, on to this week’s family…
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Greatest Thing a Father Can Do {Quote for Pinterest}
Today, we share another quote for you that we’d love you to take and pin on Pinterest. Enjoy! To receive all our blog posts via email for free, click here. Photo credit: Nina Matthews on Creative Commons
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How Social Media Makes My Sundays Even Better
Sundays are just wonderful! While I get nervous about preaching, I always love the opportunity to gather with people who love the Lord and the honor of coming before Him to praise and glorify His name. For most preachers, Sundays are a bit of an odd day. Besides preaching, there is usually study time, and often there are meetings or other services (nursing home, for example) to attend. This is not a complaint, because all these things are great. It is just to say that most preachers don’t get a consistent “down time” on Sunday like a lot of people do. All of these opportunities are wonderful, and they only…
