By Joshua Rogers, posted October 24, 2016 on his blog Finding God in the Ordinary at: http://www.joshuarogers.com ————————— “Color with me, Daddy,” my oldest daughter said. “I prefer to draw a picture, but I don’t know what to draw,” I said. “Just draw a line and keep going,” she said. […]
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One year after her baby Emeryson was born, Courtney Baker wrote a letter to her prenatal specialist who suggested repeatedly that she should have an abortion. Emeryson was diagnosed prenatally with Down Syndrome, and the doctor said her quality of life would be ‘horrible.’ The picture above is of Emeryson getting ready to put her
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WORK “The Top Thing Parents Can Do to Turn Kids Into Successful Adults” by Annie Holmquist, article posted May 9, 2016 at http://www.intellectualtakeout.org Last week, Business Insider ran an interesting article listing 13 things parents can do to turn their child into a well-adjusted, successful adult. The first thing on the list of what parents
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(…continued) This is one of those places where we wish the Bible would tell us just a little bit more of the story. Mary and Joseph certainly knew from the circumstances of his birth that Jesus was to be someone very special, but they did not yet know all that would mean. So
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Painting above: Twelve-year-old Jesus Among the Scribes, Albrecht Durer, 1506 ———————– LUKE 2:41-51: Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed
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Russell Saltzman has been a newspaper reporter, a congressman’s press secretary, and deputy secretary of the state of Kansas. Since 1980 he has been a Lutheran pastor, serving parishes in Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois, and South Carolina. From 1991-2007 he was the editor of Forum Letter, an independent Lutheran publication of the American
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This article was written by Jim Tonkowich and was originally posted at: http://www.ReligionToday.com The Joy of Sex was first published in 1972. Written by Dr. Alex Comfort (Yes, that was really his name), it carries the subtitle A Gourmet’s Guide to Lovemaking. According to the introduction: “the people we are addressing
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By John Stonestreet, at http://www.breakpoint.org , December 11, 2013 True stories are always full of both ugliness and beauty, and this one is no different. A married woman is sexually assaulted in California and becomes pregnant. Compounding her pain, her husband gives her an ultimatum: Abort this baby, or I’ll divorce you. That’s
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Written by the wife of a Lutheran pastor at: www.iamtotallythatmom.blogspot.ca Dear Parents with young children in church, You are doing something really, really important. I know it’s not easy. I see you with your arms overflowing, and I know you came to church already tired. Parenting is tiring. Really tiring. I watch you bounce and
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Today’s meditation is again from the book “Sometimes Miracles Hide” by Bruce Carroll (see meditations #39 and #40). It is another of the letters that Carroll received from someone with a handicapped child. Dear Bruce, My life is in your song. When I first became pregnant, I had no idea what the Lord
