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thoughts on Halloween

thoughts on Halloween

Yikes, I don’t usually get into controversial stuff. Hopefully my readership is small enough these days that I can explain my thoughts without opening myself up to a huge debate in the comments. Paul and I both grew up not celebrating or acknowledging Halloween, and that is something we carried with us into marriage and Savannah’s first few years. However, I’ve since started questioning this stance… and, well, and tomorrow night we’ll be trick or treating with the girls for…

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36 Bible memory verses

36 Bible memory verses

This year for Pre-K, we’re doing the Sonlight P4/5 curriculum. I really like it, but I wasn’t a big fan of the verses they chose for memorizing each week. I decided to go through my Bible and write down the verses that have meant something to me. My goal was for us to memorize some foundational verses for understanding who God and Jesus are, what the Bible is, and what it means to be a Christian. I also aimed to…

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honoring Cicely: a Christian blessingway

honoring Cicely: a Christian blessingway

I’ve written a little bit about blessingways here. About a month ago, I had the honor of throwing a blessingway for a dear friend of mine, Cicely. She is pregnant with her 3rd child, and I wanted a chance to honor her. Since we are both Christians, I thought it would also be neat to interweave spiritual encouragement through the ceremony as well. I got a lot of ideas from this blog post about ways to make it specifically Christian….

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reading through the Bible

reading through the Bible

I’ve never sat down and read the Bible cover-to-cover before, though I think through Bible studies and school growing up I’ve read the whole Bible. This year I decided to do one of the reading plans on YouVersion. YouVersion has free mobile apps, and I have one on my iPod Touch and one for my android phone. I really like YouVersion a lot! Around January 1st, I read through all the reading plans and selected one to follow. I’m doing…

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our new church

our new church

A while ago, I talked about a new church we had visited, and our decision about whether we should change churches. We continued to attend the new church most Sundays throughout the summer. A few times we went back to the old church, but for the most part we stayed at the new one. At the end of July, I started a nursery. At that point, we realized that we had made our decision. I contacted our old church and…

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