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Family Spirituality

He Is Risen…Let’s Celebrate

April 4, 2010

And celebrate we did as the girls woke up to an empty tomb this morning!
Our celebration consisted of dying Easter eggs last night to prepare for Easter morning After we talked about the tomb being empty and that Jesus is alive, we told them the rest of the day was a party to celebrate that [...]

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Day Five and Six

April 2, 2010

Jesus Praying in the Garden and telling God “not my will but Yours be done”.
Day Six: Two part series =)
Part One:  Jesus died on the cross
We then left and went to Good Friday Service.  The youngest and the oldest have croup so we spent the majority of the service in the cry room (sigh).  It [...]

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Day Three and Four

March 31, 2010

Truth by told, Day Three got a little rushed.  All day long, I thought it was Wednesday so planned the wrong story.  Then I realized my mistake right before we were starting our devotions so we scrambled to remember what Tuesday’s lesson was supposed to be.  Then Brent and I had plans so the babysitter [...]

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Day Two

March 29, 2010

If you missed Day One, click here
Jesus washing the disciple’s feet.
“Jesus” would be the blue pipe cleaner and is washing “Peter”, the yellow pipe cleaner man’s, feet just in case you were wondering =)

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Day One

March 28, 2010

Its Palm Sunday today.  In an effort to teach our kids that Easter is a BIG deal, we began our week leading up to Easter like this:
Before church we made play dough and formed it into Golgotha, poked some holes into it for the cross, found sticks outside to make a cross, and baked the [...]

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What We’ve Been Working On Today

February 1, 2010

The last couple weeks, the girls have started fighting…real knock down drag out fights. The kind that last all day and the kind that makes you want to scream “stop the drama!!  You’re not even prepubescent yet!”
In the exhaustion following the week of sickness, I’ve been dealing with the girls’ fighting by sending them to [...]

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Dedication

October 25, 2009

Justus, this morning we stood before the church and declared that we would raise you to walk in the faith of your family. We desire to remain humble and dependent on the Lord in order that He may use us to point you to Him. I know we will fail at times, but [...]

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Attempting

January 21, 2009

Over the last 6 months or so, I have been attempting to practice some of the spiritual disciplines I’ve been implementing in my life with my kiddos. Prayer and worship are the two disciplines we’ve decided to just focus on for now. Here’s what we’ve come up with =)
After dinner every night, [...]

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Oops =)

December 28, 2008

So I said I would post this last Tuesday…oops. Christmas fun got in the way of remembering to do anything!
I had talked about wanting to start serving as a family outside of the church. I’m still searching for something permanent, but in the meantime, Brent and I decided to start doing small things [...]

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Team Fun

December 1, 2008

Our team (Bible Study) at Northwood got together last night to decorate a Christmas tree for a teenage mother. We put all sorts of baby stuff on the tree and then started a basket for a pregnant teenage mom as well. It was so fun to just hang out, talk, work on this [...]

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