Family
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The Song of Songs
We have known it was coming. As our Tuesday afternoon Ladies’ class has traveled through the Bible in chronological order for the last 14 years, we have known that the Song of Solomon was coming up. Last Tuesday was the day that I introduced the book, and we began a study of it on Tuesday of this week. There have been comments made over the years about dreading to get to this book and how hard it will be to teach. We have even joked about feeling like illness was coming on the closer we got to the Song of Songs. As I have devoted more time to study, I…
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Taste Your Talk; Tame Your Tone
Many years ago I developed a lesson to present at a Ladies’ Day entitled “Ten Commandments for Christian Women.” I used it multiple times at different places and it was almost always well received. Obviously, it was not all-inclusive because the Bible contains many commandments for both men and women. I simply selected 10 that I thought would be most helpful to women in particular. The title of this post contains two of those commandments given by God. Oh, He doesn’t say them exactly like that, but he does teach the principle. I selected these two to write about in this post because of what I’m hearing (or reading) from Christian…
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Time for a Recipe!
I’ve been cleaning out my recipe stash in search of those that have special meaning to me. You know the ones – my mother’s handwriting, my mother-in-law’s handwriting, my daughter’s handwriting when she was a little girl, those from people I have known in the past. I’m getting rid of tons of recipes I have clipped out of magazines. They don’t have any special meaning. It has been time consuming, but lots of fun to reach back in that memory bank and remember great love shown by those who made these good dishes. I came across one that I clipped from the local newspaper where I grew up. It had won…
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Dear Freed-Hardeman
This coming Saturday, Leah and I will have a pretty major life change. Our daughter, Mary Carol, will be moving into a dorm at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee. While she’s still our daughter (and always will be!), we all realize that things just will not be like they have been for the last almost-19 years. We are entrusting our daughter to a university that we love. We know it is not a perfect place. We fully realize things could not go the way we (or she) might want. No place is perfect. But we are blessed to know so many people at FHU, and we know that they have…
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I’m Not Really Sure What is “Social” About It
What do all of the following have in common? All of (or at least some of) the members of a family sitting in one room, but not paying any attention to each other Having an opportunity to talk, laugh, etc. with others, but not taking advantage of that Attending a sporting event, movie, concert, or other type of event, with others, but not really paying attention to the event or the people in close proximity Referring to people as “friends” whom you’ve never met and do not even know Finding a way to become famous primarily for being famous People known as “influencers” (and I guess people being influenced) “Following”…
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Episode 173: The Importance of Regular Family Outings
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Episode_173_The_Importance_of_Regular_Family_Outings.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS (Player not displaying or working? Click here.) For the last 18 months, Adam, Leah, and the kids have taken monthly family outings. In this episode, Adam and Leah talk about the importance of these special trips and some ideas to do this on a budget. Find our podcast on… Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Radio RSS
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Renovation Complete?
A couple of weeks ago, I was blessed to be a very small part of a wonderful “camp” at Freed-Hardeman University called Horizons. Not only was I refreshed spiritually and mentally, I was blessed to teach a group of ninth grade girls, work on service projects with a great group of teens, and worship and fellowship with Christian brothers and sisters, some of whom I only get to see at Horizons. So don’t be surprised if several of my next posts are inspired by things I heard or saw during this amazing week! Today’s post is example #1. The overall theme for Horizons 2024 was “Renovate” and our morning devotionals…
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Every Kid Included
I’ve seen it, and it’s sad. It’s sad that it would happen anywhere, but when it happens in one particular location, it is heartbreaking. And it really hurts when it’s your own kid. It’s when, for some reason, a young person is not part of the youth group. Oh, they are part of it by age or grade, but, for all intents and purposes, they are outside the group. And it’s as much the fault of the adults in charge as it is the young people who are being taught. Of course kids (yes, even church kids) can form little clans and can, at times, be quite mean about things.…
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A Proverb We Saw in Real Time on Saturday
As I have said before, I very rarely write articles about recent things. I typically have articles–at least in idea or rough draft form–a few weeks in advance. However, this article is based on the recent event of an attempted assassination of former President and current Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. And, by the way, I would write the same article if something tragically similar had happened to Joseph R. Biden or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. We live in a time of many words. I am grateful to live in a time where I can read anything from longer books to Instagram captions, basically whenever I want. It is wonderful…
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Often Overlooked – Usually Unappreciated – Absolutely Indispensable
They come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. They are found in every geographic area on the globe. They reside in sparsely populated rural areas and in the most densely populated cities. They speak a variety of languages, have different ideas and attitudes about a lot of things. They may or may not agree on every (or any) subject. While they may be found at every level of the “economic ladder,” their numbers seem to increase on the lower levels. You will rarely, if ever, read their names in headlines. If they are mentioned at all in news reports or other sources of information, they may not even…
