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Jasmine Baucham | May 10, 2010
If I’m being terribly honest, I’m not a big fan of the wedding kiss. A couple of years ago, when two dear friends got married, I cheered inside after, “I now pronounce you man and wife,” was, for once, not inexorably followed with, “You may kiss the bride.” This couple agreed with me -first kisses are [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 10, 2010
Titus245Mama won the copy of Start Your Family by Steve & Candice Watters. Thanks to everyone who entered for blogging or tweeting about the book! (Click here to see the results on Random.org, our third-party draw service.)
Luci | May 10, 2010
Not for young readers. When discussing the many advantages of homeschooling, many parents are confronted with the question: “But what about the ‘good’ public schools? Why would you not send your children there?” Of all the challenges to homeschooling, this question is perhaps among the most pernicious: being vague, it’s difficult for a parent to [...]
Mrs. June Fuentes | May 8, 2010
O’ for mothers to hold in their hands a child who’s soul is eternal and to grasp the vision of changing the world through her mothering as she purposes toward multigenerational faithfulness. To look into the eyes of her child and know that God has put a purpose for that child here on earth–to advance [...]
Mrs. Wayne Hunter | May 7, 2010
“Deep in his heart every man longs for admiration of his manliness – his masculine skills, abilities, achievements, ideas, dreams, and manly body. He hungers for it as for bread. Just as you need love, he needs admiration. In fact, the center of a woman’s happiness in marriage is to be loved – but the [...]
bravelass | May 6, 2010
I once observed, in an allusion to a more famous saying, that one cannot play footsie with the religious feminists and hope to retain all of one’s toes. There is good reason for that, because one finds at the heart of religious feminism the seductive lies of heresy. Let’s face it, we’ve all known the [...]
Mrs. Eva H. | May 6, 2010
My beloved husband and I were, when I wrote this article, fast approaching our three-year anniversary. In a few more months we will have been married four years. And every day I fall more in love with him. People kept telling me when I married him, stars in my eyes and all, that this”first phase” would [...]
Kelly Crawford | May 5, 2010
“We don’t live like we believe what’s in the Bible. And we live like what’s in the Bible doesn’t matter much to the Kingdom….I’ll say as Paul did, ‘we should be beyond the milk of the word by now–we should be teachers!’…A believer who has been made so by the redemptive work of Christ should [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 5, 2010
The folks at Moody have been kind enough to provide a copy for us to give away to a reader. This is a book I highly recommend and am happy to spread around. You can read my full review HERE. Update May 10: Congrats to Titus245mama, the winner of the drawing!
Jennie Chancey | May 3, 2010
I can’t tell you the exact moment I made the decision to be a stay-at-home mom. I can remember a few of the moments that I acted on it — like when my husband and I started sacrificing for the “baby fund” or the day I handed in my resignation and said good-bye to almost [...]
Kelly Crawford | May 3, 2010
Dear Children, Should the Lord give you the good gift of a husband or wife, and I hope He does, there are a few things I want you to know. Things that you may not hear from anyone else, and certainly not on TV or through other media. Sadly, your church may not even tell [...]
L. Rose | May 2, 2010
[Editor's Note: L. Rose has been a friend to LAF and has written for us several times. She is a single homeschooling mother who came out of an abusive marriage and found peace and hope through Christian counseling. God cares for women in abusive relationships and provides a safety net for them. Contrary to what [...]
Mrs. June Fuentes | May 1, 2010
She was busy running the women’s ministry at church. She would rush home and get ready for her MOPS meeting and then later in the day she knew she would somehow try to fit in the desperately needed shopping trip to host the monthly bible study in her home. She also had to run Johnny [...]
Anna T | May 1, 2010
The other day, while I was waiting in line at the doctor’s office, I happened to overhear the conversation of two young moms who were sitting right next to me. It caught my attention, not because of how unusual it was, but because it’s so very typical these days. “I pay so much for daycare,” [...]
