I did not realize that adult Christians in general might find it odd that you hear the voice of God. In fact, I’ve only met a few who have said that they hear from Yahweh regularly. The truth is, the Holy Spirit wishes to speak to all of us who are His. Just looking at…
A lot of people will say it’s expensive and unhealthy to eat out a lot, but not everyone would agree. Plus, there are other consequences that we sometimes do not think of. Here are our family reasons for limiting the number of times we eat outside of the home. 1) Health reasons Restaurants, from fast…
When you go to most institutional churches, it is obvious that the sermon is the main gig. People can be late and miss the time of singing, but still give a sigh of relief because they didn’t miss the sermon. In the place where we attended for a time, no one was allowed in or…
A big question for those in house churches is, “Who will teach the children?” They need a weekly lesson, right? The problem with this mindset is that it still views Sunday as “church day”. It’s the day the kids should have Sunday school (though Sunday school is just over 100 years old). It’s the day…
I had the wonderful pleasure of watching 2 of my children become baptized this Sunday. For the past year they have asked questions about baptism after reading stories in the Bible together such as when Jesus got baptized, or when the Ethiopian man wanted to stop and be baptized immediately, or the story of John the Baptist.…
Ceremonies We can tell our son that he becomes a young man at the age of 13, but how much more memorable and meaningful would it be if we did something specifically geared toward initiating him and welcoming him into young adulthood. The culmination of creating men and women is definitely this: ceremonies. We believe…
Raising A Modern Day Knight (and Warrior Maiden) A great Book I read on raising boys into Men (and girls into Women) is: Raising a Modern Day Knight by Robert Lewis. This a book for Fathers about raising their sons, but my husband and I both read it and have applied a lot of the…
One particular principle of parenting keeps coming back to me over and over again – Be Purposeful! Children are not going to learn about and become more like Christ by accident. So, we have to ask those important questions. One significant question is this: How does our culture today see children and when do they…
As today’s events in Connecticut has told everyone, our time with our children is so incredibly limited. No one would have imagined this morning that this would have happened. It drives home the fact that nothing else matters beside our children’s salvation; not their grades, not their messy rooms, not their eating habits, not their…
One of the beautiful things of meeting in a simple church setting is that everyone is necessary. God brings the body together knowing the needs of the church. I Corinthians 12:7-11 says, “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good…All these are the work of one and the…
I am part of a wonderful house church. I haven’t always been able to say that. Over the years things have been easy, fun, and also tremendously difficult and horrible. We have laughed, cried, wanted to walk out on each other….It’s like a real family! I was with my family all Thanksgiving week. There were…
As a lot of people heard, almost two weeks ago there was a tragic accident at our zoo. A toddler boy was being held up to look into an area of Wild dogs and fell in. The dogs attacked and killed the boy within minutes, if not seconds. This is obviously horrible for everyone who…
God has a way of teaching you to watch your mouth. Since I’ve had kids, I’ve learned that they listen to everything….and are ready to repeat it. You know, like when you get pulled over for speeding and as soon as your spouse gets home they all yell, “Mama got a ticket, and it costs…
I think a lot of people who have decided to meet in homes as the church have, to some degree, grasped the concept that we – people – are the church, not that place where we meet. We don’t “go to church”. We are the church. And we get that we are the church throughout…
When we first started meeting together as a part of Jesus’ bride, our children were really young. I mentioned in a previous letter that we had a hard time getting our kids to sit semi-still. See No Comparisons about training. We ended up using a blue and white blanket that we spread out in our…
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