On the night of the first Passover, God’s people were instructed to sprinkle the doorposts of their homes with the blood of a lamb. When God smote the firstborn of the Egyptians, He would literally pass over the homes that were marked with blood, and …
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God’s Signature Dishes
God has signed His name on my dishes. Really. At first glance you will not be able to see it, but after I tell you my story, I believe you will agree with me that God’s signature is truly there. You see, God is interested …
Seed Therapy
I enjoy gardening. Therapy comes in those little seed packets. Winter tends to be hard on me even though it is beautiful. I’m ready for warm days and sunshine months before they show up. Those little seeds are a promise of warmer days to come. …
Caramel Mocha Truffle Cupcakes–Can You Say Yum!
For these cupcakes, I altered the recipe for Caramel Lightning Cake from The Joy of Cooking (75th Anniversary Edition), by Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker. For truffle filling: 1 ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips ¼ cup flavored creamer (I used eggnog flavor, …
Best of the Best
Do you ever get tired of hunting through stacks of recipes, looking for your favorites? It seems that I return to the same tried and true dishes again and again. Time is at a premium for me, and I don’t like wasting it while searching …
Teaching Teens to Handle Money
Do you find yourself saying these words: Do you think money grows on trees? or What do you think I’m made of, money? When my kids hit middle-school age I felt like I was constantly shelling out money for the movies, Chick-fil-A, youth group activities, …
Frugal Living Links
Coupon Mom is a free site that matches grocery coupons with local store sales. Excellent. Crown Financial Ministries, the premiere Christian organization for financial freedom. $5 Dinners. Don’t think it can be done? Think again.
Cream of Vegetable Soup
Choose the vegetable of your choice and make homemade soup tonight! 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup flour 2 cups milk or half and half 3 cups chopped veggies (carrots, broccoli, celery, potatoes, cauliflower, etc.) 1 large onion 1 tsp salt and pepper 2 cups chicken …
The H-E-A-R-T of Hospitality
Do you remember the following melody and song lyrics? “Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell you brother, you can’t have one without the other.” Have you ever considered how hospitality and love go together like …
Strategic Incompetence
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal says that, “Strategic incompetence isn’t about having a strategy that fails, but a failure that succeeds. It almost always works to deflect work one doesn’t want to do — without ever having to admit it.” We’ve …