When Jesus was telling the parable of the evil servant and the faithful servant in Luke 12, He concluded with this: “For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to w...
Attention all Hunger Games lovers or haters out there. Head on over to Trevin’s Wax’s blog at the Gospel Coalition site to check out my ND Wilson’s review. It’s drawn some lively responses on the gre...
Cant see the video in your RSS reader or email? Click Here! That’s not my husband in the video, in case that was unclear. My husband was the thinker-upper of that little vignette. The director ...
Ahoy out there, all you people needing Mother’s Day ideas! Hot shopping tip! Here is a festive little bundle of books which Canon Press is selling for 50% off at the moment.
So there were a couple questions raised on the subject of girls being constantly told to “guard their hearts.” Ok yes, I know that the questions were actually addressed to Lizzie, but I a...
Yesterday’s post on militant virtue inspired a lot of discussion, and rather than tag on a bunch of comments of my own, I thought I’d just follow up with another post. First of all was a ...
A common problem that we all have when thinking or talking about female virtues is that of speaking in negatives as though female virtues were a sort of empty space. We think a gentle and quiet spiri...
My husband had the bright idea of reprinting some articles from The Hammer, a little magazine I edited for Community Christian Ministries in the late 80′s. This article of mine was printed in 1...
Have you ever noticed how often people (okay, women) say, “I feel so guilty”? Or, “You make me feel guilty!” Or “You shouldn’t feel guilty about that!” I thi...
The glory of children is their father, and here is mine, all mine! Today he is 95 years old, and still going strong, by the strong grace of God. I’ve always been very proud of my dad. An Air Fo...
I was chatting with Mom on the the phone the other day when she said, “Hey, do you remember that blog we used to write on?” It all came flooding back. I meant to write something on that b...
This:And this:Is a boy!
With Easter Sunday just around the corner, it’s not only time to be getting the groceries home for our Easter menu, but also time to be reminding ourselves why we do this in the first place. Wh...
By now I’m sure you are all well into your Easter preparations! My fridge is bulging with Easter Dinner ingredients, and the guest list is closing in on forty. I know that sounds like a bunch, ...
Here’s a thought experiment: Think of all the opportunities we have each day in our homes to bestow kindness. Call it domestic kindness. We don’t have to look far to find hundreds of way...
Red alert, folks. I’m being a tidge pompous. I think I just may have solved one of the great conundrums of the ages. Nate had that whole Shroud of Turin thing . . . and I’ve been feeling ...
Things have been pretty much like the weather around here. One day 65 degrees, sunny, and the kids are all outside playing in t-shirts. Then the next day we are having a wind-snow-sleet blowathon. T...
1 Timothy 5:13 is a warning to women about the sins that come with having too much time on your hands. I know how absurd this may sound to many of you: Did you say too much time? Oh what would that b...
I pulled this painting out of a box the other day, and just for the pure heck of it I hung it on our bedroom wall. Maybe it was just a strangely philosophical mood that I was in, but this painting go...
There are four little girls in our house, and as time marches on, we are finding ourselves dealing with issues that are new to us. Turns out that we don’t have a bevy of toddlers anymore, and a...
My son is in World Magazine and I commend the article to you as well as his Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl.
Good new folks, I’m drinking coffee again! Things are brightening up around here! The last few weeks have been a bit of a re-entry to life. And the life around here flies by at a quick pace. Be...
Takeaways from Sunday’s sermon on Ephesians 4: 1. Don’t give the devil a foothold in your family. When we are ugly to one another by means of anger, bitterness, malice, etc., we grieve t...
When it comes to fears, anxieties,and insecurities (like double-thinking everything), we have two options. We can either feed these said fears and insecurities or we can starve them. How do we feed ...
Double-think is when we get into a tailspin over-analyzing our motives and worrying over our possible sins or those we might commit or whether we did commit or not. Did I apologize thoroughly enough?...
Once my daughter was babysitting, and it was time to put the toys away and get the kids in bed. She told the young buster, who was probably four or five, to pick up the crayons. He took the empty cra...
Here are a few questions I got at a recent Bible study for teenage girls. And here are a few short answers. 1. What do you do if your (Christian) parents are having a conflict? This is a tough spot f...
In our church community we have lots and lots of little kids, and we love it! God has blessed this place with kids of all ages, from babies in their buckets (you know, those car seat things) to toddl...
When I was in college, I became aware of just how unhappy I was. I saw no real reason to be unhappy: I was healthy, I had friends, I had parents who loved me, I had food enough and clothing and shelt...
When you are driving down the road, and you’re thinking of changing lanes, you have to do a head check, because if you don’t, bad things can happen. Your mirror won’t show a car if ...
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