I do realize how blessed we are. Daniel’s post last week was a sweet reminder of the blessings of those exhausting-but-worth-it Thursdays with Grandpa and Grandy. I am so thankful for those last rich years with them. While I thank God for those years, I know that many families are not blessed with godly grandparents. Your parents may not even want to be involved in the lives of the grandchildren, […]
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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 →Online Marriage Retreat with Hal and Melanie Young
Need a Marriage Pick-Me-Up? From Hal & Melanie Young, authors of My Beloved and My Friend and Raising Real Men Tired. Stressed. Harried. Struggling financially. Arrrggghhhh. Those are the most common words on our friends’ Facebook statuses — and they’re mostly Christians. When life becomes this hard, our marriages can take a back seat to survival. We become just coworkers and housemates when we’re supposed to be so much more […]
Read More →The Kind of Guy We Pray Our Daughters Will Marry
I ran across this list on my computer while trying to write a post this evening. It’s a list we compiled several years ago after a discussion with our girls. We have been praying that each of them will marry a man who is: A dedicated believer of the same doctrinal persuasion, equipped to lead and teach her and his family Motivated by a sincere desire to glorify God through […]
Read More →In Love with Love
“Even a beautiful God-scripted love story can never satisfy the way Jesus does. Even the most heroic and Christlike man on earth can never fulfill the longings of our heart like the true Prince and lover of our soul (Jesus Christ). And until we are able to truly make Him our first love, until we are willing to give up our dream of an earthly love story for His sake, […]
Read More →Get Ready for a Wedding!
When our children start to marry, we enter an entirely new season of parenting. It’s a season of great joy and a season of letting go in a new and emotion-packed way. It’s also a season of much preparation and decision-making, as the couple and their families work to prepare a joy-filled wedding celebration. We’ve had four children marry in the last five years. Our daughter, Johanna, was the first […]
Read More →Almost There!
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.” (Proverbs 18:22, ESV) Well, three flower girl dresses are almost done, and the wedding is this Saturday! Little Katie, one of my granddaughters, who along with her cousin Ruby, is a flower girl, says a fairy godmother is making her a princess dress to wear at the wedding. 🙂 I’ve never been a fairy godmother before. […]
Read More →Preparing Our Children for Godly Romance
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord” (Proverbs 18:22, ESV). Last week we shared Joseph and Hannah’s love story. God has blessed our family with wonderful romances, and we thank Him for answering the many prayers we have prayed for our children and their future spouses over the years. It’s never too early to start preparing your children for godly romance. After […]
Read More →One of My Favorite Love Stories
Love stories are always fun, aren’t they? I would like to share a few of my favorite love stories with you on this blog. Because my son Joseph and his dear wife Hannah are about to celebrate their first anniversary, I’m going to start with theirs. Joseph has always known what he’s wanted in life. He wanted to show up three weeks earlier than his due date (thanks, Joseph!), and […]
Read More →Ninth Giveaway: Prepare Thy Work
“Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.” Proverbs 24:27 What does it mean for a young man to “prepare his field” before he “builds his house?” What should he be “planting” during the precious years of his youth that will prepare him for establishing a godly household? When is he ready to seek and win the heart of a […]
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