…courtesy.
I found an article on the American Thinker that is well worth a read. The authors explore a personal theory of mine, namely the reduction of formality, style and modesty in our society is inversely proportionate to the amount of selfishness that surrounds us.
For example, adult men wearing baseball caps backwards and indoors, failure to [...]
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I was looking for a recipe on my blog this morning and stumbled across an old post. While I was reading it, I realized something. I blog because if I didn’t, we would never remember stuff like this and this. One of the benefits of having a short memory is that I get to laugh [...]
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you open your lunch to find…
a homemade personal size pizza and a the last of someone’s personal stash of skittles.
thanks gals you made me smile today.
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Posted by: Deanna
I have been reading through the Bible lately and last week I started on my fifth time through.
Today I was reading Genesis 37 and the wording describing Jacob’s favoritism for Joseph caught my eye. It says that “Jacob loved Joseph more because he was the son of his old age.” It had never [...]
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I hope I didn’t step on too many toes by refusing to get worked up over Subway’s faux pas, but here’s something that I do think we all should get more outspoken about: the pornographic ads and commercials that surround us nearly everywhere we go.
I don’t think I’ve done my duty in this area, but [...]
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Look, the picture on the right is Mom on her wedding day.
The one on the left is me fifteen years later wearing the same dress.
Lord willing, in a couple of years I’ll be wearing my own wedding dress and fifteen years after that, hopefully I’ll have at least eight kids.
Maybe I’ll even be looking [...]
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Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingLong ago (like 4 or 5 years) in a land far away (called Ohio)
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Share Photos - Free Video HostingThere lived a little girl with pigtails
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From Doug’s blog:
John Calvin on The Heaven-Blessed Priority of Homemaking?And if men say, ?what is this? A woman playeth the housewife, she spinneth on her distaff, and this is all that women can do.? As in deed there are a number of fools that when they speak of women?s distaffs, of seeing to their children, [...]
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posted by Pc3
We are quite vocal and unapologetic in our support of Vision Forum in our family. Kim has, at my direction, over the course of the last year posted on issues relevant to the patriarchy versus feminism debate and even links to relevant documents as Vision Forum and others have [...]
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There is a short list of films that have become a part of our family culture, and The Princess Bride is on that list. We all quote from it and we each understand what the other means by such quotes.Mr. Besilly has a charming list of 10 Life Lessons from The Princess Bride. [...]
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I’m thankful for men like Colin Gunn who are willing to fight the culture war.
I can’t wait to see the movie…..the official site for The Monsterous Regiment movie is here.
Ephesians 6:12
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual [...]
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Thank you Granny for sharing this article on overpopulation and the Biblical mandate to be fruitful and multiply.I especially appreciated this bit:
Besides, kids are great. A challenge, yes, but a blessing (see, for instance, Psalm 127:3-5). It’s interesting to read the late-in-life reflections of those who have chosen [...]
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A couple of years back, my 7yo brother William found our 5yo brother Patrick Henry hiding behind the house. The cuffs of his pants were gone and a slow flame was smoldering up the legs of his brand-new train-conductor style overalls.Patrick Henry was scared of the creeping flame, but he was even more afraid [...]
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Once again, God has reminded me that He cares about the small things too - even the very hairs of our heads.We were getting ready to go over the hill to visit my parents’ house again today. My grandparents are still in town, and today my 2 sisters from 80 miles away came with their [...]
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HT to Crystal for the link to some eyecatching stats:
Current World Population Demographics:1 Billion Muslims14 Million Jews1.8 Billion Christians
The average Western Muslim family produces 6.4 children.The average Western Modern Orthodox Jewish family produces 3.23 children.The average Western Christian family produces 1.82 children.
If the numbers were to remain consistant in one generation: Western Muslim family is [...]
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