This weekend we visited my husband’s family and our new church-home-away-from-home. Their discussion of memorizing the Bible as a way to engage more deeply with our holy God was incredibly convicting. At the end of the discussion, they played a segment of a message by John Piper entitled “If My Words Abide In You.” You…

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The Saturday Evening Blog Post is a monthly blog link-up hosted by Elizabeth Esther which allows bloggers to feature one post from the previous month. This month I am featuring “Sometimes Girls Want To Be Looked At” in which I discuss modesty and self-control by way of the topic of breastfeeding in public. I adamantly…

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In my first post in this series for Like a Warm Cup of Coffee, I wrote about the Christian tendency to retreat from the world and how this disobeys God’s command. Today we will discuss how to build your family into an outpost for Christ in your community. We are commanded to show hospitality to…

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I have written two posts addressing common Christian blindspots concerning raising children which are featured at SarahMae’s place, Like a Warm Cup of Coffee, today. I hope you’ll come join the discussion on how we can obey God’s command to go into the world and preach the gospel as we also raise our children. Part…

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I love my kids. I would do (and have done) anything for them — clean up their vomit, hook up to a hospital-grade breast pump (can anyone say, “moooooo”), pick ticks off their skin (ticks give me the creeps!), and keep their rooms from being declared toxic disaster areas by the county. But lately, I’ve…

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“I dropped it,” he sobbed. Slurred nearly-awake words dribble story of rock lost during nap. Mommy arms wrap comfort and wipe away sleep-sweat. “Did you lose your rock in your bed?” “Yes.” “Let’s go find it.” Eager suddenly-awake feet pound to his bunk bed, and he plops onto the rug, confident. Shake out sheets, lift…

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