Tag: faith
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I’M NOT SAYING GENTLE PARENTING IS THE ONLY WAY
But I am Saying That Spanking Your Child Isn’t the Way Parenting is one of the hardest, easiest things that I have ever done. If I had spent more time being guided by the God-given instincts and discernment than by the fear of man, I would have made much different choices earlier in my parenting…
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DON’T LET YOUR DREAMS KILL YOUR DREAM, PART 1
I have so much to process right now, and I don’t know how to express all that we’ve experienced and been through in the past 4 years. But here’s a snapshot of the past 2 years. The Lord put a dream in our hearts to start a farm. And 4 years ago, we followed that…
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YOUR IDENTITY IS FOUND IN CHRIST:A CASE AGAINST PERSONALITY TESTS AND SPIRITUAL GIFTS TEST
Have you ever taken a personality test? What about a spiritual gifts test? Or maybe you’ve completed a StrengthsFinder Test or an Enneagram test. I’ve done them all. I’ve completed each of them so many times that I can tell you one thing is for certain. None of these tests holds the answers you are longing…
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HOW CAN A MOM FOCUS ON HER HEALTH?
I remember when my third child was born. I was so tired that it was a chore to function each day. I worked from home and was back working 3 days after I gave birth. There was no “napping when the baby napped” for me. I had a 5-year-old and a 22-month-old and a newborn…
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IS YOUR PRIDE KEEPING YOU FROM GOD’S BLESSING?
This season has been really hard financially. We live mostly paycheck to paycheck and have received a lot of help from our families off and on. It’s not something we’ve had to do much of in our 15 years of marriage. In fact, most of the time it’s been easy. I worked a 9-5 that…
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THERE ARE GIANTS IN THE LAND
After about 3 months of living in the promised land, I want to tell you something important. We often think that stepping into the promised land is easy. That’s it’s going to be a vacation. But I want you to know that there are giants in the land. When God spoke over us that we…
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4 KEY WAYS TO KEEP KIDS HEALTHY
We all want our kids to be healthy. We want them to thrive in life. But what does it take? When I had my first son I thought the key to healthy kids was some sort of mysterious thing. My oldest got sick a lot and while I followed all of the typical advice, it…