Family
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Episode 147: Building an Active Youth Group Calendar with Families in Mind [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_147.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS (Player not displaying or working? Click here to listen.) Having a youth group schedule is never easy, and there is no way to have one that will make everyone happy. However, using experience both in youth ministry and as parents, Adam and Leah take this week’s episode to talk about how a congregation of any size can build a basic yet active youth ministry calendar without straining the schedules of families. Find our podcast on… Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Radio RSS
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It Sticks With the Kids
Last Sunday evening, we restarted Pew Packers. Well, we actually started what we are calling “Pew UNPackers,” in an attempt to remind the young people to not crowd up on the seats as we continue to do what we can, but to do so safely. For just 10 minutes before services, our younger children meet down front. We spend about 5-6 minutes singing Bible songs (some more “fun,” but some more “informational,” such as the books of the Bible), and the remainder of the time is spent learning Bible facts. (More about that in a moment.) I hadn’t realized how much I missed Pew Packers until we were involved in…
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How Do You Measure Success?
I’m a teacher and it is spring. That means that thoughts are continually turning toward those “end of the year assessments” that states require in order to see if students have made adequate progress. Of course, this year we are all interested to see what happens after an abbreviated school year in 2019-2020 and such unusual teaching conditions in 2020-2021. Some students are just now going back to in-classroom learning while others have been there all year. Some teachers have perfected the art of “remote teaching” while others are trying to survive while teaching both remote students and those in the classroom with them. Testing is not a foreign concept…
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The Danger is the Subtlety
A neighborhood in Pennsylvania had a bad morning a few days ago. A small herd of deer came through the neighborhood–which is not that unusual. What was unusual was that a couple of the deer decided to just crash through doors and windows and run around houses for a little while! Multiple doors were damaged and a couple of houses were broken into as the deer ran into and around the houses before going back outside. Other neighbors reported other damage to their property. As of now, no one is all that sure what caused the deer to do this. I want us to use that weird event to think…
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Episode 146: How to Raise Secular Children, Part 3 [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_146.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS (Player not displaying or working? Click here to listen.) In the final part of a three-part series, Adam and Leah share that one way to raise secular children is to put school and sports activities as a higher priority than church. Though children need involvement in other things, which area dominates your family’s life? Find our podcast on… Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Radio RSS
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Making Choices In Life
Have you ever made a choice in life that you wish you hadn’t made? I’m sure all of us could answer yes to this question. Choices are a part of everyday life. We choose to get up at a certain time. We choose what we will do with the time we have in that day. We choose what we will wear, what we will eat, where we will go, and on and on the list goes. I well remember a choice I made when I was newly married and first teaching school. I went into a well-known clothing store to look at the clothes. I saw a beautiful black pantsuit with a red…
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How Many Warnings Will We Need?
In a small town in Illinois, there is an historic bridge, built in 1906. The covered bridge is a bit of a landmark in the town, but it also recently made headlines because someone ran into it…again. The bridge was closed for repairs for some time and reopened last August. Since then–just over 5 months ago, the bridge has been run into no less than fourteen times. The clearance on the bridge is unusually low–just 8 feet, six inches–so taller trucks and busses have run into it continually. However, there are signs on top of the bridge. There are signs just before a driver would get to the bridge. There…
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Will They Stand Under the Basket?
It didn’t take long for me to figure out that I probably didn’t have a future as a basketball player. There is not much of a demand for short, overweight guys who can barely touch the bottom of the net and who can’t shoot well. These “minor” issues have not kept me from enjoying watching the game. While I’m not particularly interested in professional basketball, I do enjoy the sport at the college level. As is the case with any sport, the rules have changed somewhat over the years. While it may surprise some, I am not old enough to remember when there was a jump ball after each made basket. That was my dad’s…
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Episode 145: How to Raise Secular Children (Part 2) [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_145.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS (Player not displaying or working? Click here to listen.) In the next installment of this three-part series, Adam and Leah say that, if you want to raise secular children (which we don’t!), all you have to do is live the church message at church, but devalue that same message at home. Find our podcast on… Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher TuneIn Radio RSS
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A Forever Home
Do you like to watch HGTV? Most of you probably know that I do, and that my husband doesn’t really like for me to watch it. Why? Because he says that all it ever does is give me ideas for another project we can do in our house. He thinks the three most dangerous words he hears are “we could just,” because they are usually followed by “move a wall,” or “tear out the pantry,” or “rearrange the furniture,” etc. I’m really not that bad! Lately when I have watched that channel, I’ve noticed a fairly new phrase I hear while young couples are searching for a house. They may not say it right at first,…
