Month: July 2014

Do everything in love!

And Do Everything In Love

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1 Corinthians 16:13-14 Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong. And do everything with love. And do everything with love… Yeah. That’s hard. Half the time I don’t respond with love towards my siblings or choose to love that teammate who is driving me crazy! Living in a world filled with unhappy, often demanding people makes it all to easy to rudely snap back. Responding in love is the last thing on my mind, especially when my buttons are being pushed. And yet, loving others is a command found over and over again in the…

How to Find a True Friend

Finding True Friends

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Friendship is a great blessing. Friends provide companionship unlike anything else. Great friends can come from all circumstances and all walks of life. Having a variety of people around you keeps life interesting. Though our network of friends may be large, our closest friends should reflect our values and beliefs. Our “true” friends should be brothers and sisters in Christ who spur us on to love one another deeply and to grow even closer to Jesus. They should support our decisions that will honor God and steer us away from those choices that would be detrimental to ourselves or others.…

Would you like to host an event for girls?

What You Need to Know to Host a Girls Event

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Recently I shared with More to Be readers about a dream I had of hosting a reDefining Beauty event for teen girls. This event was something that God laid on my heart over a year ago as something my Acteens group could do for girls in our  community. For some time I had wrestled with the idea. Could we pull it off? What if no one showed up? What if no one had fun or learned about the Lord?  For months I kept it to myself and tried to come up with excuses and reasons why we couldn’t do it.…

Grace Gifts

Celebrating Your Children Every Day

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You must prepare yourself to live a life of grace with your children. The first and most important thing is to be connected to the Source of grace!  You must fight for time to be in the Word and prayer. Nurture your relationship with God. As we press in and depend upon the Source, we are given what we need to face the daily stuff of life.  We also are provided with the ability to pour that same grace out onto our precious children. Second, evaluate how you are viewing those precious people God has entrusted to you!  Do you…

6 Summer Projects for Your Tweens & Teens

Ideas to Help You Make the Most of Your Summer with Your Tweens & Teens

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What if you looked at your summer calendar and saw a blank canvas waiting for you to fill it in with creative, thoughtful, purposeful ideas for doing life together with your tweens and teens? What if you saw the time off from school as an opportunity to train up your tweens and teens with the skills you’d like to see them take into their future?   Rather than letting a summer pass without purpose, I’m focusing on six summer projects that I can do with my tween and teen that will enable us to connect while expanding their skill set,…

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