How Can I Help You?

March 27, 2024 by  
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Recently my three-year-old was playing restaurant with my six-year-old. They were taking turns serving each other, using a play tea set tray and odds and end pieces of plastic pots and pans gathered from various other play sets.  It was quite entertaining to hear them asking each other questions they frequently hear from wait staff.

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Come and Get It!

March 16, 2024 by  
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When I was growing up my mom bolted an old iron bell to the backside of the house. When it was time for dinner, chores, or some other event that she needed us home for, I heard that bell from anywhere in the neighborhood and knew I had about five minutes to get myself home. I raced from the neighbor’s house where I was playing and arrived back home out of breath, panting, waiting to see what Mom needed.
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The Power of the Spoken Word

March 11, 2024 by  
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By Gina Stinson 

We’ve all done it. Said something we didn’t mean to say.  Whether we said it thoughtlessly or in anger, or even if it was said in jest, it just didn’t come out the way we intended it to.  And there were consequences—a friendship hurt, a relationship severed, a spouse’s silence, a child’s tears. Boy, if we’d only thought through the words we said out loud before we said them.

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The Call to Difficult Things

February 12, 2024 by  
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Moses was called to a task he didn’t feel equipped to do: Talk with Pharaoh and be the man to lead the Children of Israel out of Egypt. I can just hear him stuttering all his excuses to God. David was the youngest of many sons and yet, God called him to kill Goliath and chose him to be king. Rahab ran the first Underground Railroad for displaced spies. Countless others in God’s Word were called to do hard things.
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Raising Rooted Children

January 30, 2024 by  
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Recently I took my six-year-old daughter to her first Christian concert. I had received two tickets to the Chris Tomlin concert in Dallas, Texas, for Christmas and we were excited to say the least! In fact, Savannah scheduled for an entire mommy-daughter day—complete with a trip to her favorite store and restaurant. What a wonderful memory.
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