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Learning to Appreciate My Family

Addiction narrows your world down until the only thing you can think about is the drug.  Everything else takes a backseat, even family. In times of brokenness it’s hard to see beyond ourselves. We make selfish decisions, we take important things for granted. For one man, it took almost losing his family to realize what he [...]

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How to Keep Your Family First

Being an entrepreneur can be a risky business. The founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies, Debbi Fields, said regarding entrepreneurship “The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.” But this type [...]

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Summer can be a great time of year to add a fur-person to your family. The dog owners who seemed a little crazy walking their pets in the dead of winter are now having a great time throwing Frisbees in the in park. Before you head out in search of the perfect puppy, there are [...]

What's your definition of family? Do you keep any family traditions?

“Alcoholism has an effect on everybody around the person suffering from it. This is especially true for a family.” says William Belle in the Ole! Times. In his article, which recounts his own struggle with alcoholism and (for the moment) sobriety, he provides statistics about how pervasive the problem is: According to a 2002 survey [...]

They say that when you marry someone you marry their entire family. There’s a lot of truth in that. In reality, you don’t just have to deal with parent-in-laws, there are sibling-in-laws, their respective spouses and children, grandparents, step parents and ex-spouses too. For both my husband and I there were things that were normal [...]

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Family Comes Before Ministry

Part 5 of the “How to be a Hero to your Kids” video series >> Watch part 6 of this series: How to Listen to Your Kids How can you be a hero to your kids? And why is it so important today? This video series taught by Josh McDowell gives answers, and offers a [...]

It’s hard for me to forget about dinner. My thirteen year-old daughter, Alyssa, poses the same question daily. “What are we having for dinner?” she asks, usually in the early afternoon. Her inquiry makes me think, because I can tell that the answer is important to her. After I tell her what’s on the evening [...]

So, you’re thinking about opening your home, and your heart, to a new family member. And that is exactly what a new pet will become, an official member of the family.  While this is certainly a very exciting decision, it is also one that carries a lot of weight with it.  Picking a lifetime companion [...]