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PREPARING THE HEARTS OF OUR FAMILY
For Thanksgiving, I like to prepare my family’s hearts for the season — using movies and media to help turn my family towards the covenant ‘fathers and mothers’ is powerful. We have been learning more about the significance of this day and that it can be more than just our traditional turkey and mashed potatoes, followed by a game of football, playing cards, or building gingerbread houses as it had been for some time in my family. Since movies play such an important role in reaching the heart, as feelings and emotions can be reached quicker than a book or a passed-down story, I decided to create a list of…
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ARE YOU A HOME DIVIDED or UNDIVIDED?
I had just finished this movie Divided a few minutes before running out with my daughter —to select her wedding gown. What should have been one of the greatest memories as a mother and daughter was now tainted as my mind was on the message of this movie. I was consumed with what I just heard. I felt like everything I had ever believed was now wiped away after just viewing an hour and a half movie— showing a destructive model of our family— by tradition I had been following. I remember pulling over to the side of the road and while my daughter ran into a store —sitting there…
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HOW WE REPLACED SANTA WITH JESUS CHRIST
Stores and radio stations have already begun to prepare us for this Christmas season, bringing out their decorations and playing Christmas music much earlier than the day after Thanksgiving which was once the traditional beginning of the Christmas season. It feels like the pace of this month increases as the list of “have to do’s” grows longer and longer. Like me, many of you are probably looking for new traditions for this month and hoping to slow your family down and focus on Jesus Christ. Maybe you are like us, as you decide to let go of the man in the red suit since he does not belong in the story…
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HOW DO I PREPARE MY CHILDREN TO STAND AS A WITNESS OF JESUS CHRIST & CONSECRATE THEIR LIVES TO GOD?
Martin Luther once taught, “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest expression every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace, if he flinches at that point.” People often ask me: “How do I train my children to stand for Christ?” And as Martin Luther said—“so that they will not flinch at the very point where…
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USING REAL MOVIES TO TEACH LOVE:
6 WEEK MOVIE CHALLENGE Have you noticed our families and especially the youth are continuously bombarded with messages, images, and teachings of a counterfeit love? Our traditions and our culture are darkening the eyes of our understanding of what TRUE LOVE means. The world’s definition of love is selfish, encourages one to seek after one’s passions, act on emotions, and is lustful. Our acts of service are meager and no one is teaching their children to Glorify God, to sacrifice themselves for others, to serve by laying down our lives like Jesus Christ, and to continually do the will of the Father, instead, we are taught to seek pleasure and…
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HOW DO I RE-EDUCATE MY FAMILY FROM THE PHILOSOPHIES OF MAN?
After being crushed as a mother, and surfacing back to the top after having one child leave the Church—and another attempt to take his life, I realized just how much my home had been compromised by the current culture, and what role that culture had played in the breakdown of my family. This is when I humbly asked God: “How do I begin to take my family out of the murkiness of the world?” The answer to the question I had asked came with an assignment through a dear friend. He knew of our desire and struggles and suggested that If Brad and I was really wanting to take the…