Featured Book Review: Shepherding a Child’s Heart

One way I am embracing my Word for the year (Shepherd) is by reading a Word-related book each season. The goal is to read at least two books this year related to ...

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Mom Math (and an invitation to something more)

Motherhood has made me an absolute expert in comparative mathematics. It began even before my first child was conceived: at what age are other women having their first children, and is that ...

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Joyful Discipleship

It’s 7:00 in the morning, and I already feel like throwing in the towel for the day. In the hour that my kids have been awake, we’ve navigated two meltdowns (one involving ...

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Bonus Book Review: Habits of the Household, by Justin Whitmel Earley

As a mom, my primary goal in raising my children is that they know and love the Lord—not superficially, but with all of their hearts, minds, and souls. I pray that they ...

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Faithful 09.23—Double Blessings

There is a question that is invariably presented in every Bible study and small group I am part of. You may have been asked to consider this question too, if not in ...

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Parents: We aren’t doing enough. (But that’s okay!)

I often wonder how far back the phenomenon of Mom Guilt extends. Like, did Eve go to bed each night wondering if she’d spent enough time playing with young Cain and Able ...

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Yes, please! And thank you!

What comes to mind when you hear the term “etiquette?” If you’re like me, the word likely evokes images of formal tea parties with guests dressed to the nines, not a stray ...

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Just Say Yes!

His surprised enthusiasm was a knife to my ego, shattering my heart into tiny pieces I was left scrambling to retrieve. One might think I would experience a little self-satisfaction or at ...

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Sullivan Luke and Kalinda Joy // Wild and Three!

My Dearest Sully Bear and Kali Cat, You will be three tomorrow. And as your mom—the woman who ached for your presence before you were conceived, who prayed and loved you into ...

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He Remembers

As a young girl “she used to try to ‘fix’ moments in her memory. The notion that years of her life would pass and she would only remember snippets, seconds of the ...

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