The Mission of Motherhood: Touching Your Child’s Heart for Eternity
By: Sally Clarkson
I want my home to be a laboratory of life, a place where my children and husband may flourish and feel loved, encouraged, spiritually refreshed, and emotionally prepared to face [...]
Joe and I had the most amazing conversation last night about God’s character and how that translates into our marriage and our parenting. I’m hoping to do a couple of blog series on the stuff that we discussed because it was really awesome.
The conversation started with a discussion of God’s character and whether or [...]
Yesterday I was venting to Candice on our way home from the mall, and she suggested that this would be a good blog topic.
I have always been a bit out of the mainstream. I was big into the punk scene, which is obviously not mainstream, and yet I am a Christian, which is not [...]
Last night my friend and I attended a community dialogue on the media and our children. I don’t think we were really the “target audience”, since they told us a bunch of stuff we already know (there are pervs on myspace, virtual pimps in video games, and sad lyrics in songs). Still, I [...]
I want to take a break from the parenting issues for a while and blog about prayer journals. Prayer journals have been a source of such growth for me throughout my walk, and I want to write a few brief blogs on the different methods that I have used and the ways that I [...]
Although I have spent plenty of time trying to explain it, I still find that many of my friends (the non-GBD kind) don’t see how coming from a punitive mindset changes everything about their discipline, even if the actions that they take are very similar to those of us who practice grace-based discipline.
Last night I [...]
In the future, I hope to write a critique of this work, but I think I’ll save that until I’m done I think I see some weaknesses and flaws in the author’s writing, but she may very well prove my wrong by the end.
I am in a book group that my friend, Candice leads. [...]
We’ve just started this book for my group, and I thought it’d be nice to share some of my thoughts.
I can definitely see how my actions fall into the “fallen” category (as in the way people act after the fall of Adam and Eve). I am prone to being the controlling type. Actually, [...]
I really feel like God is speaking to me on the topic of spending time with him vs. spending time for him. For the first time in my adult life, I am really active in serving at church. I have been leading several groups, in extra Bible studies, making meals for pregnant women, [...]
I really do. Its funny that I was voted by my friends to be the last to settle down, and instead I was a 19-year-old bride! Before Joe and I were married, I refused to cook for him. I had won the home ec student of the year (gag) in high school, [...]