Imagine this scene. It’s Christmas Eve. Dad and mom are driving with their kids along snow-covered roads. Everyone is excited for the holiday. Someone starts singing a Christmas carol and they all join in. The
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Stuck at Nine: Cultivate a Grateful Heart
While over five and a half years have passed since I wrote this article, the message of cultivating a grateful heart is timeless. (Our son is now a freshman in high school and only a
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As a young mother, I heard author and speaker Ann Ortlund talk about cheerleading on paper. She said that when you want to compliment someone, you should write it, contending that we may easily forget
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Just as children are taught, the Word of God teaches us, and I for one have learned a new lesson about thanksgiving this year.
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Jesus Christ described the incredible worth of one. Studying for a sermon series recently called The Power of One, the repetition in Jesus’ teachings of the word “one” amazed me. And if anyone gives even
Read moreIn All Things Give Thanks
Here in the United States the fourth Thursday in November is set aside as a day to give thanks. We know that, yet I’d like to propose we look beyond our traditional day of thanks, and
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The spirit of gratefulness permeates the month of November like none other. There’s thankfulness for cooler weather (or is that just me?), people coming together to fill food pantries and donate turkeys, and then, of
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“Dine with me.” That’s the month of November. A time of family, friends, and food. The culinary extravaganza of the holidays begins! Food menus are planned, and the shopping and cooking tasks explode: my sons’
Read moreThanking God Properly
He jumped up, stood on his feet, and began to walk! Then, walking, leaping, and praising God, he went into the Temple with them. Acts 3:8 NLT Giving thanks when both of my children left
Read moreIs Your Cross Cross-Cultural?
After driving up and down restaurant lane for hours with the whole family in tow my mother finally capitulated that it would be all right to try an ethnic cuisine with the caveat, “You can
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