“For His mercy endureth forever.” I went to sleep with those words in my head. I woke up the next morning with the same words still there. “O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endureth forever.” Our married daughter texted me just as the intermission was ending at the concert my husband and I were enjoying. My son-in-law and his sister had just witnessed […]
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The Power of a Promise
I gave the devotional at the bridal shower of a long-time family friend (and former Doorposts employee) this past weekend. I thought I’d share it, slightly modified, as today’s post. That will leave me more time to work on posts for our upcoming “31-Days-in-Psalm-37-for-Busy-Busy-Mamas” that we’ll be sharing in March. Stay tuned! 🙂 Forty-one days from today, Juli, you will celebrate one of the most important days of your […]
Read More →Back Next Week!
I hope you’ve had a joyous Christmas. Ours lasts until January 6, so we’re not done yet! I’ll be back on schedule with posts next week, but we just finished our big family Christmas today, and I was still putting tags on presents this morning. Once again I dream of starting to make presents during the summer for next Christmas! Somehow it just never seems to happen… See you next Tuesday! […]
Read More →A Gift the Children Can Give
It’s almost Christmas Day! Here’s a little something for your children, if they need some help coming up with simple gifts to give. Help them give of themselves during this season when we celebrate the great gift of God’s Son to the world. Print out these coupons, cut them out, and help your children think of acts of service and love that they can give to others — to siblings, […]
Read More →God of the Storm
My daughters and I have been on an adventure. We’ve spent five days in New York City. We’ve worshipped on Sunday morning with new friends in Brooklyn and visited Timothy Keller’s church in the evening. We’ve learned lots at a Christian bloggers’ conference. We attended a friend’s wedding. Yesterday was the last day of our trip — worshipping with more brothers and sisters in Pennsylvania and sharing dinner […]
Read More →Messy Times
I was re-typing portions of our book, Mighty Acts of God, and reading all the Bible story act-out suggestions. They brought up some spicy memories…like Benjamin scrawny and whining, an inside-out T-shirt on his head, stomping his foot and yelling “No” at a half-sized Moses. Johanna, giggling while she pretended to drive a stake through Sisera’s head (my dad’s hair before it was completely white). Yeah…I got a little nostalgic. […]
Read More →How To Help Your Child Understand What You Want Him To Do
A friend showed me this list last Sunday. I wish I’d had a clear list like this when we were raising our little guys. It could have made things so much easier! Send a child off with a clear understanding of what you expect of him! Is this a Level 1 task where you want her to just do exactly what you say, or is it a Level 3 task? […]
Read More →For the Joy That Is Set Before Us
Praise God! A new little man-child has joined the family! Little James Sterling is the first child of our second-born son and his wife, and he actually isn’t so little. He weighed in at 9-1/2 pounds! His birth was painful. It was hard work. Jesus’ words from the gospel of John kept going through my head as I watched our precious daughter-in-law (and our son) labor to bring their firstborn […]
Read More →Memorizing Scripture through Song
Not long ago, I was washing dishes with fiddle music playing in the background, when I overheard a small voice start singing in the other room. I listened, and my three-year-old was singing another song that I’d played a few times earlier that week. As I listened, I was surprised to discover that she knew the whole song! What a wake-up call. I realized if she could memorize things that […]
Read More →God’s Faithfulness Through the Generations
Last week I traveled back more than a hundred years as I sat in our dining room. I saw grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, and lots of other people that I’m somehow related to. My mother’s cousin, Tom, had spent more than a year planning a family reunion, and I was helping organize a notebook full of family photos and history for the event. There’s Alice, who worked so hard on her […]
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