As moms, we have a lot to do! It’s easy to become overwhelmed. If we’re not careful, we can find ourselves dragging around on an empty fuel tank. We probably all know what that feels like! But being a busy mom (or grandma…or working woman…or student) shouldn’t mean we can’t stop and take time to re-charge. Most of you have already been involved in one or more of our Busy Mamas […]
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Taking a break from arranging wedding flowers to check out the new book! The books are finished! Today we are excited to offer Child Training Boot Camp, the fifth book in the Bible Study for Busy Mamas series. In this thirty-day Bible study guide, you’ll learn to use topical Bible study methods to discover what God says about some of the typical challenges we face day after day with our children, including disobedience, bickering, […]
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I hear crying coming from the family room, where my three and six-year-old children are playing. I’m sitting in my chair, reading a book, and I don’t really want to be interrupted. But I get up and go in. The struggling stops as I enter the room, and reddened, tear-streaked faces look up at me. “What is going on?” “He was pushing me!” “I had the tricycle first!” “But you […]
Read More →I enjoyed our study of Psalm 103 together so much, and I’m already looking forward to our next new study in March! In the meantime, I’ll be praying for you as you continue to study the Word. Don’t forget, if you want to go through another study, that we are rerunning the 1 John 3 study this month, posting a link for each day’s lesson on the Busy Mamas Facebook Group […]
Read More →Hi, this is Daniel again. I’m writing today’s post while Mama runs around town helping my little sister with wedding preparations (check out the snazzy rainbow flats she made for Susannah in the picture below!) Here’s what’s going on today: First of all, I just wrote another post for the Boy Dads blog entitled Twelve Ways to be a Strong Man. Even if you’re a boy Mom (or girl Mom, […]
Read More →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 →“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Corinthians 12:9, ESV). I’ve been thinking a lot about imperfection lately. I always do when we’re trying to finish up a book and get it out the door to […]
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Today we’re celebrating as we send the revised and expanded 3rd edition of For Instruction in Righteousness off for printing! The new books should be printed, bound, and delievered within four to six weeks, and we can hardly wait to get them. If you win today’s giveaway, you’ll have to wait along with us, because we’ll send you the first copy that comes in the door! For Instruction in Righteousness […]
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