Family
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A Valentine’s Quiz for Husbands and Wives
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. (Guys, that was your cue to do some planning!) I asked Leah a few weeks ago if she would be my Valentine. Thankfully, she said yes. I am more thankful, though, that she is the type of lady who treats me like her valentine every day! Since this holiday always brings about feelings of love and romance, I want to offer the following quiz for husbands and wives. This is a little test you can take more often, but it might help spark some truly important conversations during your Valentine’s Day date (you are having one, right?). 1. When is the last time you and your…
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Thanks, Mom
Today is my mom’s birthday. (One of the lessons she taught me was to not say “which” birthday this is!) One of the greatest blessings God has given to me is the home in which I was raised. My parents, together, worked very hard to raise both Amber and me. (Parents…please read that last sentence again, slowly, and you will have an outline on parenting.) There is no way I could write a blog post that truly expresses my thankfulness to my mom, but I wanted to share just a few reasons why she is so special to me. 1. God is first in her life. If you spend more…
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A Childlike Faith in the Father
I am praying and thinking today of many who were adversely affected by the storms of last night. Thankfully, though the wind blew hard here, there is no real damage in our area. But I do want to share a story that happened amid the storms last night. The storms awoke our daughter a little after midnight. She was crying, so I lumbered out of bed and went into her room, where she was obviously shaken by the storms outside. I held her for a minute and asked what was wrong. She just said, “The storms are scary.” I said, “It’s okay. Do you want daddy to lay here with…
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“In My Heart”
A verse we preachers seem to use a lot is Psalm 119:11, where David wrote, “Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” Often, we use those words to remind people of the importance of not only reading the Bible, but of trying to memorize it. But let’s be honest, sometimes we throw that out as a suggestion, then people see how many verses there are in the Bible, and they see it as overwhelming. Can the entire Bible be memorized? I’m sure it can. But that’s not the emphasis I want to make today. I want to emphasize that we challenge ourselves…
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Mini-Post: Quote on Marriage
When Hollywood depicts couples who are virtual strangers engaging in humanity’s most intimate physical act, the church needs to counter with a biblical view of marriage. –Stan Mitchell Gospel Advocate, November 2011 (page 17)
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I Challenge You!!!
Today’s post is a challenge. Let’s be honest, we all like a good challenge. My challenge today is for families. I challenge you to turn off the TV tonight from 5 until bedtime, and spend the entire evening with “the tube” off. Yes, I know Monday Night Football is tonight. I know there are sitcoms and dramas you may like. But, folks, it’s just one night (and, if you just cannot miss the show, there’s always DVR). What will you spend that TV-less time on? Here are a few suggestions: 1. Have a family devotional. 2. Listen to Christmas carols while you sit in front of a fire. 3. Put…
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Bible Review Time (by Leah)
NOTE: Today’s post is from Leah. This is her first post on our blog, but I really hope it is not her last!!! Her post deals with our homeschool, but the tips she will give will help any parents, especially of smaller children. Even if you do not homeschool, read this post. She gives some help for all parents at the end. Thanks to Leah for a great post…but even more for being a wonderful wife! ————————– I’m probably not the only mom with young children who wonders what to do with all of the cute little take-home sheets from the kids’ Bible School classes at church. Just a few…
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A Thing about Things
Last night, I included this in my sermon, and a few folks said they liked it, so I thought I’d share it with you. It’s just a short paragraph I wrote about how we define ourselves by the things we have in this life. Enjoy! We like our things. Our shiny things, our glittering things, our flickering things, our quiet things, our gimmicky things. We drive things with nice things on the wheels and great things to play music for our drive. We have things on our walls and things on our floors and things in our attics and things on our doors. We put things in the garage and…
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Fall Break Family Day … A Wonderful Day!
This week is our kids’ Fall Break from home school. Leah and I planned a huge day for them on Thursday, and we had an absolute blast. We began the day by going to a local farm that has a pumpkin patch. It’s a little drive, but I would highly, highly recommend Lannom Farms. Not only did the kids have tons of stuff to do, but the people were extremely friendly and informative. It took us about 30 minutes to drive there, but it was worth it!!! After a morning at the farm, we headed to Providence Mall. At Target, we shopped and bought a new outfit that each of…
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Just 10 Minutes
They only had 10 minutes of studio time left. They had three songs to choose from, but the producer only liked one. So, in just 10 minutes, the group quickly rehearsed, then laid down a track. There was a little post-recording work, but the group was finished with their part in just 10 minutes. You may think, in such an extremely short amount of time, the group could not record anything of quality or any song worth hearing. But I promise you have heard the song. What was it? Enjoy the fruits of a 10-minute recording session: Now, why share that on our blog? Because we all complain…
