Creation / Ktisiology
Flip the Switch
A challenge to adjust our perspective on security, with guidance for parents on how to lovingly train up children from a place of security rather than fear.
Identity in Christ Through Every Season
Marriage, motherhood, ministry, an empty nest — how God's grace anchors our identity when our roles and sense of purpose shift.
Appreciating Forgiveness
Today is my half birthday and I will skip telling you which half year I am in 😉 In our family while we eat cake we go around and tell the family what we appreciate about the birthday person. Several kind things were…
Pantalones?
In the South American country we served in it is very cultural for elementary schools to put on a dance performance at Christmas. The performance was held at the theatre at the steel mill in town. Jeremy talked in…
Shopping Cart Skills
It is crazy and surreal to be a parent. You give birth to this tiny human being with a soul and a unique God given personality. You have no idea what your child is going to be like when the nurse puts her in your arms.…
Teachable Moments
I would say parenting has been the hardest job I have ever had and the hardest thing I have ever done, but the most rewarding. It is a long process of at least a couple of decades of life investment. There is no…
Marriage & Mission
Can marriage and mission mix? This is a big question on Jeremy’s and especially my mind. Since the time we met, before we got married, we spent time with one another because we were both serving God in ministry. The…
Oneness
One of our most central themes of our marriage is our “oneness.” Whenever one of us pulls in a different direction we remind each other we are One.
A Lesson from Elastigirl
Jeremy and I have definitely trained our kids to be flexible. Raising support to go to South America – meeting on other family’s schedules Traveling to South America (a month car ride) – many stops on the way, no…
Let God Provide the Ice Cream
Jeremy and I were hearing from different sources, children our kids ages are already questioning their purpose in life and with the questions comes a hopelessness. The two of us were curious how our kids were doing, but…
Who are we?
Our family strongly believes we live an abundant life based out of who we are. We agree with Paul. In many of his epistles he starts his letters with building the church up by describing their identity in Christ and…
Top 5 Children’s Bibles
Growing up in the Church I heard a lot of Bible stories, but could not piece them together. I never knew what David had to do with Daniel had to do with Moses, had to do with Abraham. I have chosen Bibles for my…
Israel & God’s Unrelenting Grace
I found the article Israel & God’s Unrelenting Grace by Charles Bing this morning. I enjoy his GraceNotes. After writing Resting this article reminded me again of God’s grace even in the midst of disbelief and sin. God…
15th Anniversary
This is our 15th Anniversary Year! Wow! It is amazing how fast time goes, but sometimes seems so slow at the time. We have weathered those first couple of years of him going to Bible school while I worked to support us…
Leave, Cleave, & Pray
This year my husband, Jeremy, has been so diligent in doing family morning devotions. We were reading from Ephesians. Ephesians 5:31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,…
Too Grumpy to Pray
Have you ever felt you could not talk to God because you were too upset? When my Savannah was three, our other kids asked her to say grace before breakfast. She had just gotten out of bed and up to the table. She…
Young Understanding
Kids are able to understand Biblical truth and a gain a Biblical perspective at a young age. When you start using every moment as a teaching moment, kids catch truth. When Autumn was 5 years old she was able to…
Build Hope
Many people ask me, “When can or should we start sharing the Gospel with our kids?” I say as soon as they are breathing. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the alone. And you must love the your God…
Seeds Family Worship
Our family found Seeds Family Worship when our kids were young. They sing word for word Scripture. These songs are a great way to memorize verses of the Bible. I remember when Savannah was 2 she was singing “I am more,…