Special thanks to Majesty Music and The Bible in Living Sound for generously donating prizes for this contest! Their audio recordings have been our long-time favorites, and we know you’ll enjoy them too. All other prizes are courtesy of Doorposts. First Prize Package 16 GB iPod Touch 5th generation (Apple certified refurbished) Great for taking videos and pictures, listening to your audio Bible, and lots more! Complete set of 450 […]
Read More →It’s Coming!
Stay tuned! Before the day is over, we will be posting news about an exciting new contest Doorposts is hosting — lots of great prizes, lots of learning, and lots of opportunity for good family times and creativity! While you wait, check out this great post about getting your children’s wiggly bodies involved in family worship and Bible study! Let them move! They’ll learn lots better, and have fun while […]
Read More →Book Review — and Giveaway — of “All Things Are Ready: A Bride’s Complete Christian Wedding Planner”
I’ve been wanting to write a review of All Things Are Ready, by Amy Hayes, for a long time. But first we had a wedding. Now I can really tell you how much I love this book! Those of you with young children may not need a wedding planner today. But you will tomorrow. 🙂 (You’ll need it a lot sooner than you think!) And you probably have some friends who could use this […]
Read More →“He’s Not Sharing!”
I bought it for $1.99 at Goodwill. I thought it would be a fun present for one of the grandkids. They could pretend to take pictures with it. My husband is the one who pointed out that it was a real camera. He fiddled with some things, put in some batteries, and we had a real working, bright pink, Fisher-Price digital camera. Now it was too hot of an item to give […]
Read More →A Fresh Start
“O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch” (Psalm 5:3). It’s a new year — a chance for a fresh start, in the same way that every morning is the opportunity for a fresh start. Every day we get to start out new. Every day gives us the opportunity to do better than the day before. As I enter this new year, I am praying […]
Read More →Glorious Chaos
This was the year. It’s been coming. We’ve always been committed to savoring the present opening — one person at a time, one present at a time, while everyone else watches. But that takes a long time with 20 different people giving presents to each other — especially when one of them is a present-junkie like me who never does less next year like I always say I’m going to do, and especially […]
Read More →This Little Baby
This little babe, so few days old, is come to rifle Satan’s fold. All hell doth at His presence quake, though He himself for cold do shake. For in this weak unarmed wise, the gates of hell He will surprise. Photo credit
Read More →Everything Has Changed!
I’m paranoid about driving on slippery roads. I’m even a bit paranoid about driving on potentially slippery roads. Ask my family. They’ll tell you. I think I’m forever scarred by the look of terror in the eyes of the driver in the car I almost broadsided when my car — along with a half-dozen others — went out of control on an icy overpass. That was back in my single schoolteacher […]
Read More →Small Seeds of Faithfulness Grow into Large Trees
Last month, I had the honor of spending two weeks with Pastor Sujoy and his family in India. I and the others on my mission team worked beside him teaching computer and English classes, caring for kids, teaching them about the Bible, and sharing the gospel with villagers in the beautiful Sundarban Islands. Pastor Sujoy, a stocky, serious, yet cheerful man, is the driving force behind multiple Christian ministries in […]
Read More →Born That Man No More May Die
I was playing the piano while our community group sang “We Three Kings” at a local retirement home. The children had just acted out a portion of the Christmas story, crooked little halos and all. Little Calvin, one of my charming grandsons, eager to help me play, was whisked away from the piano by his daddy. I had mixed feelings about coming back to this home. This was where my […]
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