Off the Shelf: The Missional Mom

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Almost six years ago I was on the fast track.  Then, I left the workforce for maternity leave.  Before I knew it I had transitioned into the stay-at-home mom role.  It wasn’t really planned, it just happened.  Sure, I have missed the luxuries that  a second income often offers, but the time I have with [...]

The Successful Mother

Becoming a mother is a life altering experience.  The process begins when a woman realizes that another life, whom she will be responsible for, is developing inside her womb.  Motherhood is so much more than a giving birth.  It has no few prerequisites, to obtain the position and yet to be truly successful at it [...]

Thanks for Godly Mothers

Throughout the Bible we are given portraits of both good and bad mothers.  The Word of God highlights the many roles of mothers and the rewards that come along with the job.  Below you will find some verses that help shed some light on what a Godly mother is and why you are truly blessed [...]

Just a Reminder for all the Mothers

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According to Titus 2:5 it is important that a young woman keep her home. She is “to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to [her] husband, so that no one will malign the Word of God.”  Unfortunately, our society has taken this out of context and [...]

Just Call Me Baby

Just Call Me Baby By Sherrie Coronas Mom’s long-lost friend from the old neighborhood let out an ear-piercing scream as they both did a crazy little dance at the entrance of the grocery store. It had been a long time since they’d seen one another — apparently. I quickly scanned the vicinity for anyone I [...]

11-Year-Old Hangs Himself

It is normal for us to feel that no child should ever proceed their parent in death.  Whether the cause is illness or senseless violence the pain is still severe.  It was heart-wrenching when I heard Sirdeaner Walker describe finding her 11-year-old son, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hanging from an extension cord in his bedroom last [...]

National Autism Awareness Month 2009

April is National Autism Awareness Month.  Autism is the fastest-growing developmental disability in the U.S., affecting 1 in 150 children. Every 20 minutes, a child is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Autism is more common than juvenile diabetes, childhood cancer, Down’s Syndrome and AIDS combined. It is one of our community’s most urgent needs. [...]

The Master Decorator

The Master Decorator By Patty Wysong How is it that some people can take a room, fill it with spare parts, old parts, new parts, odd parts, and all kinds of other things and make it beautiful? I have never been able to understand it. I could take the same parts and pieces, arrange them, [...]

Christian Sex-Ed

Let me first start by saying that I have desperately been avoiding this issue.  However, it seems to keep popping up everywhere, including my own home.  My six year old wants to know where babies come from and how any human being could have eight!  I thought I had taken care of this conversation for [...]

Sound Off: What Would You Do?

A great deal of our readers are or have been breastfeeding mothers.  There doesn’t seem to be anything quite like the bond between a mother and her child.  It is amazing the way that nature innately gives us all the necessary framework to know when our children need us.  We want to immediately attend to [...]