Tag: family

VidAngel – A Great Family Entertainment Resource

I have wanted to write about VidAngel for several months.  VidAngel is a great online streaming movie service that allows you to filter the content of the movies.  That’s right, you can take out foul language, sex scenes, violence, and other inappropriate content.  You get to choose what content you want to take out before …

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Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2016! We are blessed and thankful for the Lord’s many blessings.

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Book Review – Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages

Shaunti Feldhahn is a researcher and author on marriage.  She, along with her husband, have written numerous books on the subject.  Her best-selling work was For Women Only and its partner volume For Men Only.  She is noted for her analytical and statistical approach to the study of marriage and family.  She brings a unique …

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Before You Go on Fall Break

It is that week!  It happens each spring and fall with the schools taking a week long break.  Families head out of town  for a week of vacation.  Our church attendance will likely be significantly down this Sunday as many of our people will be gone. Before you leave, or maybe while you are in …

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Family Vacation and Church Retreat Rolled into One

I had always thought about family vacations and church retreats being separate things.  A church retreat is usually just for a weekend get away.  It is intense and involves people spending most all of their time with church family.  It is typically within driving distance and often at some type of a camp or park. …

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The Difference Jesus Makes in Your Marriage

  — These six characteristics were taken from the book pictured – The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages. You can also listen to this sermon in the Audio Resources page.

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A Stop by Focus on the Family

Our our vacation we stopped by the campus of Focus on the Family (See this link about visiting their campus).  Focus on the Family is a ministry started by James Dobson dedicated to strengthening the family.  We have been blessed through the writings of Dr. Dobson.  He has written classics on parenting and disciplining children. …

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Farm Report # 8: Living at the Farm!

We moved to our new home on the farm in December.  Living at the farm has made it much easier to take care of the animals and land. Though, we have been surprised with how much mud, dirt, and dust there is when living on the farm!  I haven’t given a farm report since October, …

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40 Reasons I am Thankful on my 40th!

I turn 40 today, June 15, 2016.  I am grateful and thankful on this occasion and I want to share 40 of these.  There is no certain order to this list. I am thankful for . . . Living to 40!  Life is never a right, but a blessing. Living in America with the wealth …

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How Transgender Bathroom Rules Are Flushing Our Youth

  {NOTE:  I wrote this article for an upcoming THINK magazine on Transgender issues.} On May 13, 2016, President Obama did what was considered unthinkable just a couple of years ago.  He, along with Education and Justice Department officials, issued a letter urging school officials to accommodate transgender students by allowing them to use the …

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