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What’s Your Emotional Bank Balance?
Are you dealing with negativity in your home? Discover how setting an example of affirmation and gratitude can shift your home into a constructive dynamic.
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Be the mirror your child needs
Help your children gain a healthy sense of self. Be the mirror that helps them to see their reflection without distortion and grow into the image of God.
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How Should I fill Unstructured Time?
Wondering how to best use your unstructured time? Consider the options God provides so you can choose what is beneficial and guide others to choose wisely.
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Blue Christmas
Many suffer bleakness in the Christmas season. Consider how the main characters in the first Christmas felt loneliness, fear, and sadness, but found joy.
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8 Things Your Kids Will Complain About Now and Thank You for Later
What behaviors are important to teach your children to prepare them for adulthood? Discover important skills your children will be grateful they learned!
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Empathy: A Parent’s Secret Weapon
Are you struggling with your child's emotional outbursts? Discover the value of tuning in to the emotions being expressed and responding with empathy.
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Am I an Overwhelmed New Mom, or is it Postpartum Anxiety?
Are you feeling overwhelmed following the birth of your baby? Discern if you have symptoms of postpartum anxiety and discover how to move toward healing.
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Am I Being an Overprotective Parent?
Are you an overprotective parent? Discover how excessively protecting your kids is not the example Jesus set and discover a better approach to parenting.
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Parenting Wisdom from Proverbs and the Montessori Method
Are you curious how the Montessori parenting method aligns with Christianity? Consider how the wisdom of Proverbs is reflected in their parenting method.
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Helping Your Child Battle the Grief-monster
Do you have a child who is dealing with loss? Guide your child as they battle through the process of grieving and learn to cope with the losses in life.
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Devotions
How We Communicate Has Consequences
Struggling to communicate with your family? Consider this Biblical wisdom for establishing healthy boundaries to create loving communication in your home.
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Who Can Tame the Tongue?
Do you struggle with holding your tongue? Discover Biblical wisdom to give God control of your speech and find the blessing of God's power in your life.
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Waiting on God: Cultivating the Fruit of Patience
Do you struggle with being patient? Discover Biblical wisdom for cultivating patience in your life and find the blessings that come through waiting on God.
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Putting Aside Idolatry
Do you struggle with sinfulness in your life? Discover wisdom from the Bible for dealing with the sinful habits in your life to find repentance and hope.
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A Biblical Approach to Dealing with Selfishness
Do you struggle with dealing with selfish behavior? Discover the example God gives us in the book of Jonah for dealing with selfish attitudes and behavior.
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How Can We Live the Fruit of the Spirit in Our Families?
Tired of hearing negative interactions? Consider some Biblical wisdom from the book of Galatians for letting the fruit of the Spirit overflow to others.
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Fret Not: Getting Rid of Worry
Are feeling overwhelmed by the worries of life? Consider this Biblical guidance for turning your fears into prayers so God can carry your burden for you.
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Choose Thankfulness
Each day we choose to focus on our circumstances or on the God who has power over our circumstances. Discover wisdom from scripture to guide your thoughts.
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Paul's Spiritual Guidance for Relationships
Looking for Biblical guidance for living in relationships? Paul's parting greeting to the Corinthian church provides a good summary for living together.
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