Rock Climbing

Discovering God's Plan for Your Parenting (Part 2 of 2) April 20, 2018

Author Gary Thomas explains how parenting can lead to spiritual transformation in a discussion based on his book, Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls. (Part 2 of 2)

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Discovering God's Plan for Your Parenting (Part 1 of 2) April 19, 2018

Author Gary Thomas explains how parenting can lead to spiritual transformation in a discussion based on his book, Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls. (Part 1 of 2)

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Protecting Life and Family Values in the Senate April 18, 2018

Senator Mitch McConnell offers a retrospective look at recent pro-family and pro-life accomplishments in the U.S. Congress, and discusses the challenges of reaching compromise in Washington, D.C. Senator James Lankford also weighs in on pro-family issues.

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Discovering Your Money Type (Part 2 of 2) April 17, 2018

Tommy Brown offers insights from his book, The Seven Money Types: Discover How God Wired You to Handle Money. He outlines those seven types, unpacking their strengths and weaknesses, and offers couples advice for working through their financial disagreements. (Part 2 of 2)

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Christianity Today

Why God Still Works Through Fools Like Samson

The deeply flawed Old Testament “hero” was set apart for a very specific purpose. Growing up in church as a scrawny kid, I was captured by stories of David slaying Goliath, Gideon defeating the Midianites, and especially Samson taking out 1,000 Philistines practically barehanded. While I loved the daring of those figures, I was also taught to be careful abou […]

Jesus, Take the Control Wheel: Southwest Pilot Saw Flying as Ministry

Fellow Texas Baptists cheer on Tammie Jo Shults, who heroically landed Flight 1390 after engine failure. BOERNE, Texas (BP)— When members of First Baptist Church in Boerne, Texas, heard recordings of radio transmissions from a Southwest Airlines pilot who made a harrowing emergency landing this week in Philadelphia, they recognized the voice as one of their […]

My Son’s Down Syndrome Showed Me the Real Imago Dei

It didn’t look at all like I thought it did. For the majority of my theologically trained life, my ideas of what it meant to bear the image of God were quite conventional—easy inheritances from systematic theologies or books. We can love because God is love. We have the capability to reason; God is the one in whom no irrationality is found. Our personhood or […]

How to Become America’s Fastest-Growing Church? Think Like a Startup.

Cincinnati’s Crossroads uses entrepreneurial strategies for gospel ends. The fastest-growing congregation in America is one you may never have heard of with a name you hear everywhere: Crossroads Church. Crossroads are about as common as First Baptists among today’s non-denominational, contemporary churches. But this particular Crossroads, based in Cincinnat […]

Pioneer Woman

The Boarding House is Open! by The Pioneer Woman April 13, 2018

In case you didn’t see/hear/smell/taste (ha) yet…The Pioneer Woman Boarding House is finally finished. And it’s open! I wanted to show you a few quick glimpses here. (You can see each room in detail on The Pioneer Woman Boarding House website!) This is The Prairie Room. It’s our smallest one, but […]

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Time on the Couch by The Pioneer Woman April 2, 2018

I hope you all had a beautiful Easter week! I can’t believe I didn’t check in on Confessions last week; every morning, I would sit down to craft some kind of crazy update, and every morning I would get pulled away by a phone call or a kid or a Merc or a Boarding House […]

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Little Ree: Best Friends Forever! by The Pioneer Woman March 23, 2018

I have a new Little Ree book coming out next Tuesday! It’s the second in my Little Ree series, and tells the story of a little girl named (ready?) Ree who has moved to the country after living in town her whole life. The second installment is “Little Ree: Best Friends Forever” and it’s all […]

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Rock Climbing

Posted on December 14, 2009 by meetmeinmelange

Well what a fun afternoon we had. Daddy’O had his office family party today at a local health club. The last activity was rock climbing. We all had a go at it, but the boys really excelled. Now they want to do it more. We’ll have to check out the options around town. I’m sure it isn’t cheap. Here is the proof that the parents tried it too. Daddy’O made it to the top. I did not.