Books Ballman, Ray. The How and Why of Home Schooling. Crossway Books. 1987. Fugate, J. Richard. What the Bible Says About . . . Child Training. Aletheia Publishers. 1980. Leman, Dr. Kevin. Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours. Dell Publishers. 1984. Moore, Dr. Raymond. Home Grown Kids. Word Publishers. 1981. Moore, Dr. Raymond. Home School…
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Help for Dysfunctional Families
by Dale Lawson “I don’t want to influence my children in religion. I want them to make up their own minds.” This philosophy prevails in our society — to our undoing. Families guided by it rapidly slip into dysfunction, because parental example greatly impacts children and their choices, whether intentionally or not. Negative attitudes,…
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Surrendering to divine priorities. by Crystal Kupper Please be wrong, I begged the pregnancy test. It’s too early! It was my twenty-second birthday, and this was the last present I wanted. Panic flooded my mind: What about the graduate school application I had been completing minutes earlier? What would my husband think? Was I…
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Don’t deny your feelings, but realize they are just that — feelings, not eternal reality. The way you feel right now about this pregnancy (angry at yourself or husband, scared, flustered, etc.) is OK, so don’t feel guilty about what you feel. Yet realize in six months or a year, your feelings most likely will be…
Read moreDoubt and Belief: Finding the Road Again
Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At least he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. He fought his doubts and gather’d strength. He would not make his judgment blind. He faced the specters of the mind And laid them; thus he came…
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The hidden pitfalls in yours, mine, and ours. by Maxine Marsolini Many might say Charlie and I were adventurous that wintry weekend, twenty-four years ago. Others might believe the snowstorm we braved was a precursor to the stormy life we would discover. But we had a goal: We were eloping — and not even…
Read moreAdvice for Parents of Prodigals
How to live in hope despite the discouragementof a wayward child. by Rita Platt The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18). If you are embroiled in a heart-crushing storm with a prodigal child, you are not alone. The Lord is with you in the…
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Divine power displayed in a father’s struggle. by Greg Lincoln as told to Sherri Langton “I have some concerns.” The ultrasound technician finally spoke, breaking a long silence while studying the picture of my wife’s womb. Two heads, four arms – twins eleven weeks old. But only two legs were visible, perhaps a third,…
Read moreA Tiny Heart after God’s Own
by Judy Bettendorf as told to Brooke Keith Ten fingers, ten toes. (My husband, Pete, knew; he counted five times.) Feathery soft fuzz atop her head. We’d never seen anything quite like her. Our daughter, born March 3, 2003, was beautiful — a perfect example of God‘s handiwork. Her name would be Lisa. That…
Read moreA Slow Surrender
Sometimes letting go doesn’t come easily or quickly. by Priscilla Tate Gilmore Last Saturday morning was my turn to call my adopted daughter for our mother-daughter bonding time. After the initial exchange of weekly events, Katie* announced, “I found and talked with my birth mom, and I was thinking we could meet sometime. What…
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