want something good for free?

Then go visit our friend at The Responsible Father.  (Same guy who hosts The Responsible Puppet in my blogroll).
He’s giving away 5 Fighter Verse Song CD’s.  I’ve recommended them before as a great tool to memorize Scripture and enjoy doing it!
What I may not have mentioned is that my husband Tom has worked closely with [...]

miscarriage and memorials

I think a lot of miscarriages happen with little said or done.
Many women miscarry before they’ve had the chance to tell family and friends that they’re pregnant.  And so, after the loss of their little ones, they soldier on.  The baby is remembered mainly in the heart of a grieving mother.
For me, it’s helpful to [...]

gospel in ten words or less

Demian, over at Fallen and Flawed (great blog, by the way), asked 12 bloggers, including me, to summarize the Gospel in 10 words or less.
It was a tough one for me, but here’s my response:
“Jesus’ blood calls, converts, cleanses, cures, carries the once condemned.”
How would you summarize the greatest story ever told if you only had [...]

perinatal hospice: a grief conserved

My dad just had another article published in World Magazine.
It’s called, A Grief Conserved, and I recommend it.
Here’s how it begins:
“Something’s wrong with this baby,” my ultrasound technician told me. She had just scanned Mrs. Jones (a fictitious name) at 20 weeks and went on to describe her findings, findings that surely meant little chance [...]

Randy Alcorn’s blog: a great find for biblical wisdom, esp. about finances

I’m so excited to have found Randy Alcorn’s blog.
He is the author of Money, Possessions and Eternity, a very influential book for Mr. TommyD and me.  I think that book, coupled with the “wartime lifestyle” preaching of our church, helped Mr. TommyD and I to set our financial priorities Godward early on in our marriage. [...]

doctors and their fight against the death culture

I’m a big fan of WORLD magazine.  
I started reading it as a young teenager and have enjoyed and profited from it ever since.  
My dad (who blogs at mdviews) recently got an article published in WORLD, and I couldn’t be more excited about it!  My dad is an OB/GYN doctor and has been in the [...]

parents, are you moralists or theologians?

Of course the two aren’t mutually exclusive.  
But what’s your bent when you teach your kids what Christianity is all about?  I admit that it’s easier for me to fall into teaching my kids the moralistic part of Christianity as the main point.
Bruce Ware, Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary, has a new book [...]

the only organizational tip you’ll ever need!

Of course, that’s not entirely true, but it sure makes a good headline!
I got this tip at my MOMS group.  A lady was giving an introduction (she wasn’t even the main speaker) and happened to mention a tip she’d heard from someone else that had always stuck with her.  Well, now it’s stuck with me, [...]

some good and not-so-good reasons to memorize fighter verses

We memorize fighter verses at church.  They’re just sets of verses that take us through the year.  For more info on them check out my “I recommend” page.  Also this week’s fighter verse (and every week’s) can be found and meditated on at fighterverses.com.  Here’s this week’s:
I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise [...]

younger brother prodigals, older brother judgment and the third way

At Between Two Worlds, Justin Taylor points to this great article by Marvin Olasky from World magazine.
Olasky has some great insights into the younger brother/older brother phenomena, as it touches the Christian and secular world.  He says “We all know of the younger brother’s libertine living.”  But he describes the older brother’s problem as more [...]