Family Tradition: Night Before School Starts

On the night before every new school year starts, we drive to each of our kids’ schools. At the school we talk about why they go to school – learning comes second – the mission of our lives, which is to represent God and love the world to Him comes first. God put you in…

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Family Tradition: No Tech Tuesdays

Because of my belief in the importance of meaningful traditions, I’m sharing a few from time-to-time that we’ve established in our family… Most of the family traditions came about through creatively thinking of fun ways to share God together, share time together, and celebrate together. This one was more out of necessity. Our kids would…

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Silence

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? More hair? Greater salary? Flatter TV? Smaller nose? Bigger boobs? For me, I think it’s less noise. Well, the issue isn’t the noise, it’s that I really want intimacy with God, to be able to hear His still small voice. Blaise Pascal wrote,…

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Family Tradition: Birthday Signs

Because of my belief in the importance of meaningful traditions, I’m sharing a few from time-to-time that we’ve established in our family… When you wake up and go downstairs on your birthday morning in our home you are greeted by signs.  Lots of signs. They’re taped all over the walls.  They’re home-made signs by the…

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Family Tradition: Morning Bible Study

Because of my belief in the importance of meaningful traditions, I’m sharing a few from time-to-time that we’ve established in our family… We have two kids, 12 and 10 years old. We’ve been studying the bible with them since they were around 5 and 3, and do it basically everyday. I desperately want my kids…

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