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Review: Irreplaceable: What is Family?

Everyone knows something is wrong with the family these days.  But what? Tim Sisarich travelled all over the world to answer this question.  He spoke to experts, interviewed prisoners, ordinary parents, and many others, and shared his own story as he searched for an answer.  Irreplaceable, the resulting documentary, starts with the basic question, “What […]

Eight Years of Homeschool Encouragement and Tips

When you’re on a challenging journey, you need all the inspiration, tips, advice, and signposts you can get.  Recently I was learning from my old homeschool encouragement posts and decided to organize the best of them for you (and me). For new homeschoolers My readers and I teamed up to list Advice for a Newbie Homeschooling […]

Review: Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine

Our church has an important project we would like to give money to, a lot of money.  So when I had a chance to review Crystal Paine’s new book Money Making Mom: How Every Woman Can Earn More and Make a Difference, I jumped at it.  I wanted to see if there was any way […]

The Hardest Prayer

As we celebrate Christ’s first coming, we also look forward to his second coming, when there will be no more death, no more pain, no more tears. (Revelation 21:4)  We often pray for God’s kingdom to come and, indeed, we are urged to do so throughout the New Testament. But if our circle of loved ones […]

Review: Disciplines of a Godly Woman by Barbara Hughes

Being disciplined is difficult, yet it is something God requires of us in many ways.  In fact, Barbara Hughes says, “…it is the path by which the good news of Christ gives meaningful shape to all the days of my life.” In Disciplines of a Godly Woman, Barbara Hughes distills decades of Christian living into […]