Today’s post is from guest blogger, Mrs. June Fuentes of A Wise Woman Builds Her Home. Mrs. Fuentes addresses a topic our Facebook users are probably aware of–the suggestive breast awareness campaigns. I appreciate Mrs. Fuentes for allowing us to share her post and the …
Mentoring
The Child’s Story Bible: A Classic
The Child’s Story Bible I love reading The Child’s Story Bible by Catherine Vos to our children. It is captivating enough to interest our three-year-old, but rich and meaty enough for our 11-year-old. Points of doctrine are explained right in the text in the same …
Gushers from Boulders
I had a tooth that was causing me extreme pain. We prayed and the tooth improved completely. Our Christian dentist saw the before and after X-ray. However, he told us that God can heal a person’s soft body but not a hard tooth. He went …
Spiritual Antihistamines
It had been a while since I’d had any gluten. (It’s amazing how quickly one can forget the terrible times I’d endured.) As I reached for the golden glazed bit of sweet heaven I told myself, “It’s just a little bit. Surely it won’t be …
Jesus Loves Women
The thought that God loved me never crossed my mind as I gasped for air, his hands tightly gripped around my throat. My husband was an angry man and a misogynist – he hated women. If only he had come with a list of …
Zack, You’re Acting Zany!
Zack, You’re Acting Zany! Marty Nystrom has done it again. After writing his popular Don’t Mess With Moses! book of humorous poems based on Old Testament stories, now he’s written a sequel from New Testament passages. As an elementary teacher, Marty saw how kids loved funny …
Between Two Kingdoms
Between Two Kingdoms Joe Boyd, the author of Between Two Kingdoms, takes the reader to a fantastical world where the boundary between good and evil is abundantly clear. On one side of the Gate of Separation, there is a land filled with seven- year-olds who …
Grace to Grow
“…nevertheless not as I will, but as You will.” (Matthew 26:39) Recently I was asked, “What has it cost you to grow as a Christian?” I thought for a few moments, taking a quick trip back down the highway of life remembering and reminiscing, seeing …
A Day of Small Idols
“It’s my kitchen island! I’ve always wanted one! It’s mine. Mine! “The new kitchen goes nearly the whole length of the house. There was this little deck, you see, and it was always hot because the sun shone straight on it. So we filled it …
Praying Through Discouragement
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him. Psalm 42:5 Some mornings it seems like nothing goes right. I wake up to a messy house and find that we are …