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Our Review of the Creation Museum
Last week, our family enjoyed a wonderful few days in the Cincinnati, Ohio area on vacation (video coming tomorrow!). The main reason we chose this area for our vacation was to visit the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. I had heard of this museum for some time, and we were thrilled to be able to go and enjoy the museum for two days. After getting home, I thought it would be good to write a review on the site, since I’m sure many of you have never been to the Creation Museum. In a word, my review is “go.” If I had to add another word, it would be “soon.”…
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Friday’s Family Friendly Finds {May 16, 2014 edition}
What a wonderful week! The reason we have not posted is because our little family took a vacation! Our goal is to have some pictures of the trip sometime next week, but it was so great to get away for a few days. We appreciate you understanding that we didn’t post at all while we were gone. It’s always good to have one less thing to do on vacation! While we were away, we were blessed to have more people sign up to receive our blog through email. We now have 370 email subscribers, and we want to remind those of you who have never signed up to get our…
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Friday’s Family Friendly Finds {Last Day of School, 2014 edition}
That’s right, today our kids finish up their year of school. While it seems that everyone else had about 183 days off for snow and ice this winter, we pushed on and are done as of today. I’m really proud of Mary Carol and Turner for their work this year, and there is no way I could be any more thankful for the great job Leah does in teaching the kids. Just a quick blogging note: Our next post won’t be until next Friday. We’ve got some other things going on next week that will keep us from posting, but we will try to have a family links post next…
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A Tribute to Christian Mothers for Mother’s Day
I remember hearing “I’ll Fly Away” being hummed around the house. I also remember getting the look for acting up during worship (you know the look I’m talking about). I remember hugs when I didn’t deserve them… …and swats on the behind when I did. Somehow, I was blessed by the Lord to be born into a family with a mother who loved Him and wanted to show His love to us every day. By the grace of God, I have been blessed to marry a lady who does the same for our two children. I have a sister, mother-in-law, and sisters-in-law who are striving to raise children in God’s ways.…
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Move Here, and Your Home Will Improve
Can you imagine a city counsel or tourism board being so bold as to make a claim that would say, Move here, and your home will improve? That would be about as bold as it gets. Who could honestly say that, if you move to this one place, your marriage will get better, as will your relationship with your children? I just can’t see any tourism board getting that bold with their claims, no matter how much they may want you to come! BUT… I know a place that will do that, and today, I want to invite you to move. Let me describe this place. There are no beaches nearby,…
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A Christian Response to “Is It Time to Change Our Views of Adultery and Marriage?”
Yesterday, the Huffington Post ran an editorial by Lisa Haisha with the title “Is It Time to Change Our Views of Adultery and Marriage?” With that title, you can figure out her answer. Haisha begins by saying that “society’s view” of marriage–a man and woman married for life–has not always been the accepted norm. Many societies have (and do) expect and promote multiple partner marriages. She then writes: Clearly the concept of marriage has changed greatly over the years. And with today’s rate of divorce between 40 and 50 percent, coupled with the prevalence of adultery in many marriages, perhaps it’s time for the concept of marriage to continue to…
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Video Summer Series Update : The Videos Are Ready!
For several months now, we have been letting you know about the Video Summer Series. If you are unfamiliar with what this is (or just need a refresher), here is what we wrote previously: In our first post, written on December 23, 2013 we shared the “Big News” about the Video Summer Series, letting you know that it would be a series of 10 videos, each 20-25 minutes in length, that would be available for free for congregations to use anytime they wanted. We also released the theme, “Building Godly Families,” and the list of 10 speakers. In the follow-up post from March 5, 2014 we let you know that…
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Friday’s Family Friendly Finds {May 2, 2014 edition}
Before getting to the “finds,” let me share some great news with you. This coming Monday (May 5), I can already tell you what you’ll be reading about on the blog. The Video Summer Series lessons are done, and we plan to start releasing them on Monday. I can’t wait to let you see the great work that was done by so many people to get these videos ready. If you don’t know what we’re talking about, wait until Monday and you’ll love what you see! On to this week’s family links for your weekend. This Week’s Finds 4 Things Every Home Needs [We are THAT Family] Helping Kids Deal…
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Two Blogs You Need to Check Out, Even Though They are Closed
Lebanon Road is a wonderful place to be. Our members are so kind, and the support given to each other is remarkable. A couple of years ago, our congregation went through a series of tragedies that could have broken us. However, with faithful elders and an infinitely faithful God, we did our best to work together through a series of heartaches. While I’m certain that not everything we did was “just right,” I think we can say that we did the best we could. I will not go into too many specifics, but two who were involved in some of these tragedies decided to blog through their grief and healing.…
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“Can We Go to His Grave?” : Helping a Child Process Grief
He died a few weeks ago, and we knew his death was coming. He had been ill for some time, and we had both called and visited with him. Of course, it was still sad, and we miss him, but his passing was not unexpected. Then, out of nowhere, just a couple of nights ago, our eight-year-old starting crying as she said her nightly prayer to the Lord. Her tears were out of missing this elderly man who always gave her a hug and handed her candy. So far as I know, she hadn’t cried since the day we found out about his passing, but now she was sobbing as…
