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How to raise kids with holy hearts

Venomous words came out of my small mouth without even thinking. When the church lady asked how I liked my new baby sister, I answered her with jealous words of a displaced youngest who was suddenly in the middle after 7 years. My mother’s wounded glance awakened my prideful spirit as we walked to the car. Back home, she handed me the phone to apologize for my words. I apologized with my mouth, but my heart was angry. I felt far away from my changing family and from the God we had worshiped that morning at the church building. An …

How’s that New Start working out?

How have the first days of 2015 gone so far in your family? We’re just 10 days into this new year of motherhood, and already, it’s obvious that we need Jesus! We can absolutely grow more godly as mamas this year, even though we’re going to face the unexpected. Maybe you’ve already by surprised by a flu bug, a teacher change, a bill, a conversation, or a decision. No matter what your ordinary and extraordinary days look like, the good news is “that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day …

I Dare You

Each woman is a snapshot–a moment of God’s plans, beauty, and wildness captured in his image–but so many of us are allowing the word’s influence to have a say in the final development of our snapshot. I was the same way…

All that time…wasted…just because I wanted to look like everyone else.