What is Hell really like? This is a question I get from time to time from eager learners. After watching Hollywood (and culture) depict Hell and Satan, many people are confused about what the Bible actually says about the place of eternal damnation. Let’s get a few things straight. Hell […]
Family Stuff , Homeschool
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Seven Days of Homeschooling Seven: Why a School Room?
In the beginning of our homeschool journey I wanted my house to be a home and our school to be at the kitchen table. I kept a small shelf or cabnet with our supplies and we just cleaned up each day. Over the years the bins of books for each […]
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Seven Days of Homeschooling Seven: Why a School Room?
In the beginning of our homeschool journey I wanted my house to be a home and our school to be at the kitchen table. I kept a small shelf or cabnet with our supplies and we just cleaned up each day. Over the years the bins of books for each […]
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Green Acres … from City to Rural Ministry…
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Lauren Surprenant. Lauren was born & raised in the Boston area, moved to the suburbs with her husband, Tom, and children Taryn & Matt. She is presently bi-vocational/bi-ministry, serving as youth minister at a small country church and serving as ministry director […]
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Seven Days of Homeschooling Seven: Have a Plan and Stick to the Plan
When we first began homeschooling 8 years ago I had only 3 children and used a traditional textbook/workbook style where planning was very simple. My curriculum company sent me homeschool lesson plans and nice little work books that were simply do the next page. I just did a number of […]
Evangelism , Ministry , Rural Ministry , Student Ministry , YM For Cheap!
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Adopt-A-Neighborhood Update (1/14)…
This post is an update to the original here… and here.. and here… and here… (you get the idea.) When I shared this idea with Greg Stier, after Lead the Cause University, I had no idea of the traction the idea would get, and what Greg had in mind to […]
Family Stuff , Homeschool
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Seven Days of Homeschooling Seven: Creating a Rhythm to Your Homeschool
Its been such a wonderful blessing to have our years planned out for us with such a strong biblical foundation with My Fathers World curriculum. When we first began this curriculum I scoured the internet for other M.O.M.Y.S.(Mothers of Many Young Siblings aka Moms with Kids close in age) using […]
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My 5 P’s of Grocery Savings..
When I was growing up saving on groceries meant cheap, dented, tasteless food that my mother would gather from grocery store for pennies. And while she was able to “feed” the three of us for $15 a week at one point, often times our food was throw…
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I Know A Guy….
Last weekend brought a snowstorm like I have never seen before. I grew up in the midwest, and have seen and done some really crazy things in snow and ice, but this was beyond anything else. We had temps, not wind chills of -12 and spent approximately 2 days straight […]
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Youth Ministry on the Cheap: Super Bowl Party
I love playoff football. I’ll admit it. I’m a full-on NFL junkie. Here’s the deal: I’m not alone. This past weekend, network television set all time ratings records for the Wildcard Weekend of playoffs. The FOX game of San Francisco and Green Bay scored the highest ratings of any Wildcard […]
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Why do we suffer?
Sometimes in ministry, I get a question that I just can’t answer. It might be someone, deep in anguish and grief, who wants to know why it happened? Why are they suffering? Why did the event occur that caused them pain? It’s during those moments, as I sit silently, that […]
Ministry , Student Ministry
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Social Media and Youth Ministry
What’s up everyone! Been awhile! My last semester in college has been a tough one and I’ve been contributing over at Ministryplace.net so I haven’t been fresh on ideas. Today we are traveling to Paoli Peaks IN for our annual Winter Blast snow tubing trip. Something stuck out at me […]