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Pitfalls To Watch Out For As You Set Spiritual Goals
You have set spiritual goals. Yay!! 🙂 Now that you know what you aiming for, prepare yourself. You are going down a path that Satan wants to discourage you from. A path of growing in your relationship with God. You have an enemy who is roaming the earth like a raging lion seeking to destroy you. (1 Peter 5:8) Imagine the precautions you would take if you had a real-life lion tracking you! You would probably choose not to eat bacon if you knew a lion was sitting in the bushes besides your house. In fact, you would consider carrying a weapon to keep the lion at bay so that…
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Spiritual Goal Ideas To Skyrocket Your Faith
Looking for spiritual goal ideas? Perhaps you are staring at a blank sheet of paper trying to decide what spiritual goals you should set for the new year? Maybe it is July and you are in rut with your faith life and know that something needs to change. Whatever the reason, here is a list of spiritual goal ideas that you can prayerfully consider! Be sure to grab our free Set Your Spiritual Goals printable to help you take action with your spiritual goals. *This post contains affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you if you purchase through these links. You can read our disclosure…
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Powerful Reasons Why You Can Tell Your Kids That Santa Is Not Real
Do you find yourself dreading the day when you kids find out that Santa is not real? Or maybe you look forward to that day because it will mean less work for you at Christmas time! For starters, you have to create new Elf on the Shelf antics everyday to remind them that Santa is making a naughty and nice list. Next, there are lines to stand in so they can see Santa and read him their wish lists. There is the expense of trying to fulfill even some of the requests that they made. Don’t forget the confusion of deciding which gifts Santa gives them and which gifts are…
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Star From Afar: My Family’s Honest Opinion
This past year, my husband and I wanted to find a new way to engage our kids in the real Christmas story leading up to Christmas Day. Prior to having kids, we had done some Advent readings but our kids are still pretty young and wouldn’t grasp the Advent readings we had done previously. Besides, we knew we wanted a more hands-on approach to help our young children be able to engage with the story of Christ’s birth. After looking around, we decided to try the Christmas Star from Afar Advent Calendar. Let me share with you my family’s honest opinion after using Star From Afar for a complete Christmas…
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Awesome Bible Tracts To Hand Out At Halloween
Halloween is the one day of the year when it isn’t surprising to hear a knock on your front door. As an introvert who is not thrilled by surprise guests, I like the fact that I can at least plan on these guests showing up. 🙂 Now, I know that Halloween is a hot button topic for Christians. If your family chooses to not participate in the holiday, I fully understand. Growing up I came from the family that didn’t have anything to do with this season. (Partly because we lived in the middle of nowhere!) However, now that I live in town and we frequently get several visitors…
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Activities You Can Do At Home To Train Your Kids To Sit Through Church
Before having kids, I took for granted how easy it was to simply attend church. My husband and I would take showers and dress up. It was enjoyable looking good and holding hands during worship time, taking notes during the sermon, and even participating in some conversations with those around us without interruption. Then we had kids. In fact, we had three kids in three years. With three kids ages three and under, attending church looks a little different. We make a sugar-free breakfast in hopes of keeping their extra energy in check followed by wrestling three kids and ourselves into clothes with minimal stains. Finally, we drag ourselves,…
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4 Things My Wife Does That Make Me Love Her More Everyday
Today as my husband headed back to work after his lunch break, he handed me a flash drive. He said that it contained a guest post for my blog. If I read it, I had to publish the post on my blog. Nick knew my curiosity levels would be through the roof. It took less than 45 minutes for me to get the kids down for naps before I read this post. And yes, I cried while reading it. Nick’s Guest Post: When I offered to write a guest post for my wife’s blog because she is busy and has a lot on her plate, she thought I would…
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My Book Review of Mama Bear Apologetics
Two things have connected my husband and I since day one of knowing each other. Books and Christian apologetics. While repainting a room in our basement, we listened to Frank Turek’s Cross Examined podcast. (Definitely something you should look into if you like podcasts!) In this particular episode, Mr. Turek was interviewing Hillary Morgan Ferrer. She was sharing about her new book called Mama Bear Apologetics™: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies. From the second I heard the title, I admit that I wanted that book! Two days later, I was opening an Amazon box expecting to see the usual supplies that my husband orders for our household…
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Questions Every Christian Should Ask When Watching TV
Just this past week, there was the announcement that the television show Arthur was showing an episode featuring the gay wedding of Arthur’s school teacher. Growing up, I enjoyed watching Arthur. Seeing the news that this change was coming was certainly frustrating. Reading the comments concerning the announcement was even more saddening to me. Hateful Comments For starters, many Christians were spewing hate-filled comments to people who said they were going to watch it. Now I understand their frustration. Evil is rearing up so much and being geared to such young ages. As a Christian mom, it is beyond maddening at times when you find another area (like your…
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Practical Ways To Spiritually Support The Pro-Life Movement
Just minutes before writing this, I was enjoying holding my sweet two-month-old daughter in my lap. When I hold her, she squirms in my lap and practices her smiles. My heart breaks as I stare into her deep blue eyes and think of all the babies who never got the chance to practice smiling at their mommies. And my heart is crushed to think of all the mommies who never experienced the joy that comes from having their child smile at them for the first time. Since the legalization of abortion in America in 1973, there have been over 54 million babies aborted. To put that into perspective, New…