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LAF Editor | June 15, 2013
We said over and over again, “We were meant to work with tools not play with toys… This message is needed all over the world as the global youth scene is being pickled in its narcissism. via The Problem With 17-Year-Olds Who Hang Around 17-Year-Olds.
Tanya Duarte | May 17, 2013
Mothers and Matthew 25:34-37 “Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ‘For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me drink; I was [...]
LAF Editor | May 2, 2013
My six-year-old son follows me into the cool room; last bits of sunlight cascade onto the brown couch where we sit down. Looking down at my son I search for the right words to speak to him. I quietly pray, “God, help me not lose my temper. Help me talk to him gracefully and not [...]
Kelly Reins | April 24, 2013
Some of you will remember the story of Lil’ Tait and his early arrival at 27 weeks old. Newly weds and new parents, Tait and Lauren Zimmerman, found in a few short months that the outline for their future suddenly included nearly a million dollars in hospital bills. Our friends the Zimmermans have been diligent [...]
Kelly Reins | April 6, 2013
“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.” (Prov. 31:8,9) Attorney General Eric Holder has been busy. Between managing the Fast and Furious scandal and trying to explain how it’s lawful for [...]
Kelly Reins | April 6, 2013
For a devout Christian family who sought refuge in the U.S. from Germany when they were persecuted for teaching their children at home, their days of asylum may be coming to an end. HSLDA and others are trying to help and so can you by telling Attorney General Eric Holder and the White House you’re [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 20, 2013
From the gifted Ann Voskamp of A Holy Experience–the best thing I’ve read on this terrible crime: When you’re the mother of four sons, Steubenville is about us. Steubenville is about having a conversation with sons about hard things and asking you to do holy things. Because a Steubenville doesn’t begin with football and it doesn’t begin [...]
Kelly Reins | March 16, 2013
I am stuck on a conundrum, and it’s making me reflect, About a troubling weakness, and a character defect. It’s one that often plagues me, and it plagues some friends of mine, I’m speaking of the painful message sent when we’re not kind. The greatest act of kindness in all of history Was modeled by [...]
Kelly Reins | December 17, 2012
Stories about Aspergers are starting to show up in the news following the tragedy in CT. Humanistic psychologists are touting answers that are not grounded and which only sow more seeds of fear and confusion in an already emotional nation. Even a mother is equating her son’s demonically influenced sin to the condition calling for the government to [...]
Kelly Crawford | November 12, 2012
I compiled the devotional ebook, When Motherhood Feels Too Hard, for myself when motherhood truly felt too hard. I desperately needed to be reminded, (against the lies of the culture around me), renewed and encouraged to see the importance of pouring my life into the next generation; and I needed the Lord to bear me [...]
Kelly Crawford | August 26, 2012
My biggest discouragement as a mother is my own lack of self-control and the constant reminder in my attitude of my sinfulness. What I desire? To parent with all gentleness and grace, facing each challenge with a gospel-lesson. Reality? Not always that. But if we ask, then listen, the Lord speaks. And He says to me, as [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 14, 2012
From Mariette Ulrich at Mercatornet: Raising kids is not a Sunday stroll in the park, but if you never get there, whose fault is it? Very few families of my acquaintance do not occasionally lament that they are too busy, over-involved, stressed to the max. It was partly for this reason that my husband and [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 24, 2012
I meant to post something about this during the squall that erupted over Obama’s contraception mandate, but that’s the same week a ship off Mombasa dropped anchor on the cable carrying high-speed Internet into Kenya, and life online slowed down to a crawl. That’s okay. Plenty of other folks took time to comment, both on [...]
Jennie Chancey | February 9, 2012
From Mercatornet: A new report on daycare and child wellbeing in New Zealand has had a predictably stand-offish reception from the media and professional groups so far, although parents posting their opinions online are dividedabout its claims. The report, Who Cares, published by lobby group Family First and written by British psychologist and author Aric [...]
Kelly Crawford | January 29, 2012
Foolishness and wisdom seem to be a recurring theme in our family right now. Partly due to circumstances around us, and partly due to, what I think, is just the way God loves to shout messages at us to get through to our hard-headedness. “He who walks with the wise will become wise; but a [...]
