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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Journey Home (and a Lilla Rose Giveaway!)

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By Contributing Writer, Bambi Moore As an RN and former breadwinner of our family, my heart goes out to moms who would love to be at home, but are financially burdened.  Our economy, cost of living and expected standard of living puts many families over a barrel, and robs mothers of their choice to be a [...]

A Vision of Loveliness, of Femininity

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By Contributing Writer, Jennifer Ross   The “vision” most of us were given as young ladies about to blossom into womanhood was that of distinct feminism. Few of our own parents sought to purposely ingrain into our hearts and minds such confusion.  No, it was by default that we unknowingly adopted this anti-God ideology that [...]

Call Me Old Fashioned…

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Guest Post by Ruthiey Paulson …but I think wedding dresses should be modest. I follow several photography blogs and I find it a little odd, not to mention distracting, when the bride is wearing a dress where there’s pretty much only one focus, and it’s up there. I would like to know how she talked [...]

Rise to Bless You Still Part 1

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Beauty for Ashes As the early morning sun caressed the foothills of the Appalachian mountains that Thursday, it revealed utter devastation as far as I could see. The trees that once casted shadows lay piled in a heap, roots jutted into the air.  Instead of birds and critters stirring in the full green boughs, there was [...]