Are you looking for creative new ways to spend time with your kids? Try these easy, step-by-step craft ideas: Edible Igloos Ingredients: half an apple smooth peanut butter mini marshmallows 1 sharp knife (for adult to cut apple in half) butter knife Method: 1. Cut the apple in half for your child and core it. [...]

Does your life have a positive effect on others? Would you like to discuss this with someone? Imagine you are camping with your family by a big lake. You’ve cooked dinner over the fire and now you are relaxing around the campfire roasting marshmallows and eating s’mores. There is no wind and the lake is [...]

Thinking of Divorce? Talk to someone who will listen. Imagine you are camping with your family by a big lake. You’ve cooked dinner over the fire and now you are relaxing around the campfire roasting marshmallows and eating s’mores. There is no wind and the lake is perfectly still looking like a mirror reflecting a [...]

My wife studies people, and several years ago she decided to run a little experiment with our three sons. “You can have one marshmallow right now, or, if you can wait for fifteen minutes, you can have two marshmallows later,” she told Taylor, Clark and Eric who were seven, six, and four at the time.  [...]

by Gail Rodgers **Can you trust God to heal your marriage?  Here is a Study that will help you.  http://thelife.com/study/lovebusters.html?section=disrespect_judgments&ft=BSG-OS She was six and eager to read to her brother. The 23rd Psalm was written on a card, and as she read, I smiled… “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.  He makes [...]

It’s still a couple of weeks until spring and the weather can still sometimes be depressing. The kids may be bored and your relationships may be suffering. What can you do to beat the winter blahs and energize your marriage and family? Consider the following: 1. Go fitness walking at a local mall before the [...]

By Gail Rodgers Also available as a podcast at: http://thelife.com/blogs/experience/kindle/2008/09/07/issues-of-trust-3/ ** Our online interactive studies cover many topics, including hurt emotions and painful scars from the past: http://thelife.com/study_hurtsemotions/ She was six and eager to read to her brother. The 23rd Psalm was written on a card, and as she read, I smiled… “The Lord is [...]

Are you having difficulty letting go of the past? Come talk to one of us. After many years away, I was visiting my hometown, Ocean Gate, New Jersey.  For a long time I had wished I could go back – perhaps because of all the wonderful memories I cherished. Parking my car near the deserted [...]

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe!” (Ephesians 1:18&19) She was six and eager to read to her brother.? [...]

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you…know the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and…know His incomparably great power for us who believe!??? (Ephesians 1:18-19). She was six and eager to read to her brother.? [...]