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Tag: God made us

10 Bible Truths To Help You Understand Your Child

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Jess Connell

Parenting can be such a challenge. Sin outside our home… sin inside our hearts… the stresses and strains of life in a family… These things swirl together and threaten to knock us off-kilter.  As my husband and I go about life with our seven children (currently, ages 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, 2, and 7 months),…

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Mama, What Habits and Norms Are You Giving Your Children?

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Jess Connell

We have a family habit of taking off and dropping our shoes by the back door when we come in. Then, twice a week, one of the little boys has a chore of tidying them all. Looking back, it would have been better for me to  teach them all to practice diligence from the beginning, by having…

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It Takes Courage to Submit

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Jess Connell

“It takes incredible amount of courage and strength to go against the grain of what people want you to be.” ~Janet Mock, trans advocate, in a documentary about Bruce Jenner’s recent ESPN award No it doesn’t. It doesn’t take strength at all to go your own way. That is what comes naturally. This is the human…

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56 Ways the Bible Describes Women

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Jess Connell

Ever wondered– What does the Bible say about women? I thought it would be helpful for us to see how women are described in the Bible, positively and negatively, as we strive to be godly women. This is a fairly exhaustive study of the word “woman” in the Bible, with all of its uses and descriptions (from…

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Do You Rightly Value the Whole Body of Christ?

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Jess Connell

Can you imagine if your whole physical body was a clamorous, jibber-jabbering mouth? Or if it was a big lumpy wad of knuckles? What if your whole body was made of tendons, with no bones, muscles, or tissues? It is such a gift to have all our myriad body parts, so that we can rightly…

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