Practical Practices – A Ministry Mindset

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© rnl – Fotolia.com By Contributing Writer, Stephani This past school year I led discipleship courses for young ladies at a local homeschool academy. A recent assignment required each student to submit a personal question they wanted to discuss during an upcoming class period. One fourteen-year-old girl submitted this question: What are some practical things [...]

Review: Why Isn’t a Pretty Girl Like You Married?

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By Contributing Writer, Jeannette Paulson I recently heard a delightful story of a young woman, Christine, who fell deeply in love with a piano player, Martin, at Bible School.  The only problem was that he was unaware and going out with another girl.  After one year she transferred to another school, but when she heard [...]

Singleness – A Season of Suffering?

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By Contributing Writer, Stephani January’s theme at Visionary Womanhood is Suffering. There have been tremendously insightful posts written over the course of this month relating to so many areas of life.  I began thinking about another season of life – singleness. Is singleness a season of suffering?  Singleness Would Be Easy IF Would it be [...]

Blessing Dad With Time, Helpfulness, and Joy!

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By Contributing Writer, Stephani The sun wouldn’t rise for another hour or two, yet I could hear Dad flick on the light switch. “Good morning,” he said, encouraging me to lift my eyelids and prepare for a chilly day in the branches of a tree. In less than 40 minutes I was dressed, had a [...]

Anticipatory Servanthood

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By Contributing Writer, Stephani   Our Great Need Gazing on the unending jewels of the gospel transforms the way I think about life, people, problems, and “growing up.” I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. –John 10:11 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay [...]

Teaching Older Daughters About Food and Nutrition

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My first two children, now 18 and 16, were boys.  God blessed us with a daughter 12 years ago, and now that we are entering those special “young adult” years with a girl, I’m once again venturing into exciting new waters. This year for science, we are going to study foods and nutrition (with some [...]

Joyfully Investing in Younger Siblings’ Education

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By Contributing Writer, Stephani Upon graduation I had four younger siblings. Now I have six. Two of my sisters have graduated high school, another sibling is in junior high, and the three youngest are all under the age of 6! You guessed it… my parents will be homeschooling for years to come… Impacting the Next [...]

Managing the Multiples: Home Schooling a Large Family of All Different Ages

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By Contributing Writer, Jennifer Ross We have 11 children, 2 have graduated, 6 are “doing school,” and 3 are just babies still.  What’s a home educating Mother to do?  Hint:  Enlist help from the older ones. Well actually, our oldest son is on his own now, but our oldest (and graduated) daughter is here at home, training [...]

Taking Dominion by Washing Feet

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By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford The King of the universe came to conquer the world. His method? Washing feet. For you were called to freedom, brothers (and sisters). Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.  Galatians 5:13 We young women are in a time [...]

The Titus Impact

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By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and children, to be sensible, pure, good homemakers, and submissive to their [...]