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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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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Enjoy this second post in a series on family devotions by Scott, my husband of almost 12 years. As I said in Part 1 of this post, the discipline of family devotions can be a hit-or-miss, or even flat-out neglected part of our family life because it mystifies us – we don’t know exactly what…

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Today I’m delighted to feature the first of a series of guest-posts on family devotions by Scott, my husband of almost 12 years. That fact alone speaks volumes about his patience, his ability to stay calm when others (that would be me) are upset, and the wisdom with which God has blessed him as he…

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In 2 Samuel 12, we read how King David, the “man after God’s own heart,” committed adultery with another man’s wife while he was away at war. When she conceived his child, David tried to get her husband to come sleep with her to hide the adultery. Her husband refused, so David had him killed…

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