Bringing Your Kids Alongside You to Serve Others

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  As Clarissa grows, one of my goals is for her to have a heart that wants to serve others and not just herself. At first it seemed hard to find ways for her to serve others since she is only five. But I have found that one of the best ways to do this,
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Winter Break Bucket List

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  Now that the cold weather and hot chocolate season are upon us, we often find it hard to get outside our warm house and be active. I realize that as much as we enjoy our cozy home, making memories outside of it is just as important as the moments we share inside. Thankfully, I
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Homemade Christmas

homemade christmas
  Its December now, and if you aren’t panicking thinking of all the people you’d like to give gifts to this year but really can’t afford to, then you’re probably in the minority. Christmas time has become so commercialized that we really believe that the amount we spend on someone equates with how much we
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3 Lifelong Habits – The Habit of Obedience

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  “Mom! Joleen stole something from the store,” yelled my older brother. My heart thundered in my five-year-old chest. I knew I was in trouble and would have to make it right. The funny thing is that despite a few isolated incidents, I was an obedient child. So why did I steal a pink bouncy
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Why Is Algebra II So Hard?

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  Your teenager has breezed through math all his life and suddenly he hits a wall: Algebra II. He is discouraged and doesn’t want to do math anymore. What can you do to encourage him? When I speak on high school at homeschool conventions and workshops, at least one parent confides in me afterward that
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Quitting December

december
  I’m about to reveal some homeschool lessons I’ve had to learn the hard way. Never try and attend the cheap movie during the public school’s spring break…it is better when you get the movie theater practically to yourselves. Purchase your own copy of Cranberry Thanksgiving to read. It will never ever be available at
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Stranger and Pilgrim – Part Two

william brewster
  After joining himself to the Pilgrim congregation, Brewster was a “special help and support to them.”opening his home to them for meeting at “great expense to himself”. An elder who took seriously the command to “lover of hospitality” (Titus 1:8) and did so “without grudging” (1 Peter 4:9). Brewster’s association with the Pilgrims, his
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Stranger and Pilgrim – Part One

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  Imagine a marathon where every spectator is a former marathon award-winner. The cheers to the contestants below are full not only of empathy, but chants of courage, shouts of cheer, lingo of fellowship. Hebrews 12 paints such a scene when describing the heavenly stands of those who have earned their eternal reward. Wherefore seeing
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