training children – Page 4 – Growing Graceful

by Linda

I can do ALL things?

It was the middle of the night when I sat up gasping. “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength,” tumbled out as I looked around the room and realized where I was. I was in Midland, Texas, and the following day would be the Bible Bowl competition my youth group had […]

by Linda

Ephesians 4, verses 17-32

This chapter is such a good blueprint for Christian living. Verse 32 is one I had my littles memorize early on. I feel like I live seasons when life as a child of God seems smooth. Other seasons I struggle, probably because God is stretching me, and I hate seeing my inconsistencies… times like […]

by Linda

When Suffering is a Privilege

My nearly 13 year old daughter came in to do her morning kitchen chore and began telling me how she used to want to live to be really old {“like, over 100”}, but she changed her mind. “Oh?” I asked. Why? Turns out she thinks if she lives long, she might live right into the […]

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How Putting Up the Christmas Tree Turned into a Teachable Moment

While unplugging and re-plugging light strands, removing and replacing bulbs, and playing with the dimmer switch on these newfangled lights… my kids grasped, for a few moments, how important they are to the Church Body, and to bringing Jesus’ light to the world…. and this teachable moment is one we can refer back to throughout the year, and relive again next Christmas.

by Linda

Praying for our Children

Proxy~ the authority to represent someone else I was listening to the radio on the way home from town yesterday. The program on the Christian station was asking us, the audience, to share a time when someone of importance in our lives (parent, teacher, pastor, friend) said something that really cut us to the core… […]