Life

iPhoneography: Losing Well

January 21, 2012
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My 7 year old son is in his second season of wrestling. He’s in the middle of the pack, and loves the sport. At Saturday’s tournament he took a good beating, losing every match (this is a first). But I was still impressed with his hard work, his refusal to quit (or even whine), and [...]

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Resources for Discipling Your Children

January 11, 2012
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Earlier this week I asked via Twitter, “What tools are you using to disciple your children?” Of course training our children in the way they should go is a holistic endeavor involving instruction, modeling, conversation, formative and reformative discipline, planned rhythms, and spontaneous exhortation (and, of course, the local church). But as a parent I am [...]

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iPhoneography: Weighing In

December 21, 2011
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Wrestling season has started back up, and Elias is pumped about his second year. This means hitting drills/practice/live wrestling three times a week and tournaments throughout the next few months. Here he is weighing in at his first tournament of the season last weekend. #iPhoneography This photo was taken with the iPhone 4 and processed [...]

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Relief from Satanic Attack

December 5, 2011
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I was born in 1972, so I really grew up in the 80′s. This means that I observed the “satanic panic” of the 80′s and early 90′s. Much of that served as more of a distraction from the real dangers of Satan and his schemes. For, however many of those claims were false, there is [...]

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ESVJB Giveaway Winners

December 2, 2011
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Wow! Almost 230 of you entered the giveaway and Crossway stepped up to make it more fun by offering to give five Journaling Bibles to randomly selected participants. Congratulations to Kyle Owenby, Jesse B., Krys Curnutt, Ron Lane, and Ginger Swann. To everyone else who still wants a Journaling Bible I would encourage you to [...]

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How I’m Using the ESV Journaling Bible

November 29, 2011
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As a new Christian the Bible was entirely new to me. I didn’t know who the Apostle Paul was, nor well-known stories like that of of Cain and Able. So, I was hungry for the Scripture and read it fervently and frequently. For the first years of my Christian life I always had my bible. [...]

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Motherhood, Sacrifice, and Worship

July 26, 2011

Ladies, it is great to give an hour here and an hour there to charitable works. Do that! But if you want to truly be a living sacrifice, then have a baby. You will then not simply give up an hour or two a week for someone else. You will be giving up your life [...]

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