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To be Angry at God…Or Not To Be…
Photo Credit-Rachel Peterson…Thanks rad mama! Song of the month-The Unmaking by Nichole Norderman (No Spoiler alert. The back of the book I refer to here tells you more than my references do:) I just set down a fairly popular memoir that has taken me some time to get through. Not because the author wasn’t a…
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Three Pick Up lines Every Church Planting Husband Needs To Use On His Wife
Song of the Month- Thinking Out Loud: Ed Sheeran Note to Reader: If these lines don’t work…Just try Forest Gumping it. “I may not be a smart man Jenny, But I know what LOVE is.” Three pick up lines every Church Planting Husband needs to use on his wife. I See you. I hear you.…
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Everything I Learned About Church Planting, I Learned from Silly Putty. ( And other 1980’s toys)
Yes. You heard me right. Silly Putty. Remember it? If not, I’ll loan you my six year old for a bit and you’ll quickly find it in every surrounding crevice and crack..including your beard if you have one…I don’t at the moment, but my husband does… PLUS = Fun For Kids I had actually…
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How Not To Get Punched By Families Who’ve Adopted
Song of the month: Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift November is Happy Adoption Month! November is also Happy Premie Month! This month I’d like to celebrate our Little Eden Hope Alexia Jones, who we Adopted at 1 lb 2 oz July 2013. In honor of Our Super Girl Eden, I’d like to share a…
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Dead Poets Post
Song of the month: Never Once: by Matt Redman My dead poet post for the month is my all time favorite dead woman preacher, poet, rescuer of Children, writer… Miss Amy Charmichael….applause…..Thank you Amy for guest posting for me this month. Happy fourth of July…..even though you were an Irish woman living in India in…
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Everything I Learned about Church Planting, I Learned Through Adoption
Song of the month: U2- Invisible So this is number two in my Everything series for church planters. Which kinda shows you I have a slightly skewed view of EVERYTHING right? From time to time I’ll compare church planting to something I’ve learned in my life. And at the moment I’m having the said epiphany,…
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Sold! To the Lady with the Big Belly!
SOLD! To the Lady with the big belly! Song of the week: Oceans-Hillsong Doesn’t that cake look yummy? I love cake walks and auctions for delicious looking desserts. I can hear the gavel now…Sold! To the lady with the big belly…Fortunately so far, no auctioneer has actually said that to me. But if one did,…
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Perfection
Song of the month-Nichole Nordeman- Lay it down Recently I jabbed myself in the nose while I slept…Or shall I say as I awoke, cause it’s hard to sleep when someone’s jabbing you in the nose. What made it worse was, it was the morning of my 17th wedding anniversary. We had a fabulous day…
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Time to Quit?
Song of the month: Gone,Gone,Gone -by Philip Phillips So when is it time to quit anyway? Here we are again. In the ER room with my Beautiful Micro Premie Eden Hope. “Eden,” I repeat to the nurse who keeps saying the wrong name, “as in The Garden of…” She’s my perfect little flower. It’s times…
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Hey, Who Turned Out the Lights?
Song of the month: You Do All Things Well by: Tenth Avenue North “Blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.” (Matt13:16) Sometimes I think that this life is one giant parable, teaching us about God’s reality. An over excited driver ran me and my children off the road just…