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Friday, May 28th, 2010

Time to Remember

What are you celebrating this Memorial Day weekend? I am sure that you will be celebrating a three day weekend. You will probably be celebrating the coming of summer (at least those of us in the Northwest.) What I am wondering, is when I mention Memorial Day do you think of [...]

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Fear Not

Anne Marie Ezzo says, “After reading Pastor Joe’s article on ‘fear’, it made me think about how often we, especially as parents can operate out of fear. Fear that our children won’t love us if we have boundaries or need to correct them. Fear that ‘what if I’m not doing it [...]

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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Will Your Kids Make It?

I am wondering how many Christian kids could answer the question asked by a non-believing friend; “What makes Christianity different than any other religion? Why should I believe that the Bible is Gods’ book or in Jesus is God?”
Over summer vacation several of the books I read dealt with real cultural influences that have [...]

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Monday, June 8th, 2009

Water the Healthy Grass

The following is a timely reminder from our friend ‘Pastor Joe’ – with summer approaching and a ‘vacation’ mindset in place, it’s easy to slip away from our daily devotional time and spiritual feeding. As a Mom we can fall back on, the ‘kids’ take up so much of my time. Well, how about including the kids! [...]

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Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Time to Remember

What are you celebrating this Memorial Day weekend? I am sure that you will be celebrating a three day weekend. You will probably be celebrating the coming of summer (at least those of us in the Northwest.) What I am wondering, is when I mention Memorial Day do you think of the purpose for this [...]

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