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Discipling Teens in God-Glorifying Relationships

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert As Christian parents, we recognize that our sovereign, loving God placed our children in our care with the Great Commission charge to make disciples of them. When they hit the teen years, our children start to face challenges in their relationships with the opposite sex that our spiritual enemy will [...]

Building a Bird Garden with Your Children

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert The Vision Two of our sons have been avid bird watchers since they were little boys.  Their favorite place to watch birds was the woods beside our home.  When a building contractor destroyed those woods to make room for a new house, the boys were devastated! They devised a plan [...]

When We See Him Face to Face: I Corinthians 13:12

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” (1 Cor 13:12) Heaven will change many things, all for the better. In this passage, we learn it will change [...]

Unhealthy Obsession

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert I hate to admit it, but I am obsessed with health.  That’s right.  Obsessed. No, I’m not a vegan paleo triathlete or anything like that.  My obsession has taken a different form. For the past twenty some-odd years I have been fixated on NOT caring about health.  I am obsessed [...]

Unpleasant Promises

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert I make promises to my children every day. I promise to pour one child a cup of juice right after I finish making the oatmeal promised to his brother.  Then I am off to read to their little sister, as promised. Often I fail to make good on my well-intended [...]

Family Worship during the Christmas Season (Audio Podcast)

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert Today was a day of preparation for me.  Illustrated Christmas song books were stacked in a basket by the fire place. Manger scenes were set out for the little ones, and candles have been placed liberally throughout the family room.  Favorite Christmas books were brought out of storage and wrapped individually [...]

Make Love AND War

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  By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert “Make Love, Not War” is an iconic Vietnam-era slogan that is still used in protests today.  It speaks to our desire to live at peace and to lead quiet lives with those we love. It is also a mutually exclusive statement.  “Making War” is the opposite of “Making Love” [...]

We Either Run With the Pack, or We Run to WIN!

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert  Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize?  Run in such a way that you may win. (1 Corinthians 9:24, NASB).  I am what some might call a “football mom.”  I have four boys who play the sport, and [...]

Raising Our Children for War

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert “We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.”  ~Matt Chandler- The Explicit Gospel (Crossway, 2012) The Lord has brought this quote often to mind recently.  Perhaps it’s because I am still surprised and disappointed when things don’t come easy.  I want to believe that the [...]

Hope in Christ, Not in Curriculum

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By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert August is an exhilarating month for me.  I always look forward to the start up of our homeschool.  By the time August rolls around all the school books have been bought, lesson plans are prepared, and the schedule has been tweaked.  Nothing has happened—yet—to ruin my idyllic dreams that this [...]