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5 Ways To Put Our Pro-Life Values Into Action

5/28/2021

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5 Ways To Put Our Pro-Life Values Into Action

Supporting The Sanctity Of Life

This time three years ago, my husband and I had just adopted our daughter and were happily ensconced in baby snuggles, bottle feedings, and the sleep-deprived existence of newborn life. We were thrilled to finally be parents! As I write this, a dear friend of mine is just days away from giving birth to her third child, and the entire family is anxiously awaiting this precious little one’s arrival. It’s estimated that close to 4 million births take place each year in the United States, and I would guess that most of those are joyous occasions for the families who welcome a new child into their home. But for many women, discovering they are pregnant is not a happy moment or a reason to rejoice. Instead, there is overwhelming fear, shame, guilt, dread, and hardship that often lead them to believe that their only choice is abortion. 

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Hey Mama! PRAY

5/25/2021

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Hey Mama! PRAY: Praying Proverbs Over Your Child

Praying Proverbs Over Your Child

As Christian parents, it is our responsibility to teach our children to be more like Christ, and we need help with this daunting task. We need a resource for character building!

There are a lot of books written on child-rearing, but let me introduce you to the best child-rearing book ever written—the book of Proverbs. It’s God’s textbook for the task of raising little Christians that become adults who strive in every way to be more like Him. Read it, study it, meditate on it, teach it to your children, and PRAY IT OVER THEM!

As I wrote Hey Mama! PRAY, I found that many of the topics covered in the study pertained as much to me personally as they did to my children. I often found myself not only praying over my children but also praying for myself.

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One Benefit of Suffering

5/21/2021

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One Benefit of Suffering
Have you ever noticed that much of the Bible and the lessons we learn from it are centered on suffering and people’s response to suffering? It is hard to find a story in the Bible of some saint who did not endure suffering. Peter spends much of his two epistles speaking of the inevitability of suffering for God’s people.

Many people have attempted to answer the question of why God allows suffering. I believe the Bible clearly answers this question in several passages. Elizabeth Elliot, the wife of missionary martyr Jim Elliot, spoke and wrote often about the suffering God allows in our lives because she said that abundant life is only borne out of suffering and death.

​I am not going to attempt to comprehensively answer this question today, but I want to highlight one major benefit of suffering in our lives – the comfort that only comes from God!

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Protected by God

5/18/2021

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Protected by God
This is a breakout post from our 27-day devotional, Come and Gather: Family Time With God, or what we lovingly refer to as Gather. You'll find this post featured in Part Two: Days 6-10 A Walk Through God’s Word of Gather.
“Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, ‘What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?’ And Balaam said to the donkey, ‘Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.’ And the donkey said to Balaam, ‘Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?’ And he said, ‘No’” Numbers 22:28-30
Have you ever wondered why it is so hard to do what you think you want to do? ​

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2 Things I Can Do Today to Consistently Put God First

5/14/2021

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2 Things I Can Do Today to Consistently Put God First
Why do I want to do good, but don’t do it?
 
I have often been comforted by Paul’s passage in Romans where he basically admits to a daily struggle between his desire to please God and his desire to sin:
“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Romans 7:21-24
In a sense, this is the bittersweet reality of the Christian life—being constantly pulled in opposite directions. 

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​God’s Mercy

5/11/2021

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​God’s Mercy
This is a breakout post from our 27-day devotional, Come and Gather: Family Time With God, or what we lovingly refer to as Gather. You'll find this post featured in Part Two: Days 6-10 A Walk Through God’s Word of Gather.
“As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, ‘Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.’

But he lingered.

So, the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the Lord being merciful to him, they brought him out and set him outside the city” Genesis 19:15-16

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The Winds and Waves of Christian Parenting With Purpose

5/7/2021

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The Winds and Waves of Christian Parenting With Purpose
The assumption that I am an expert in the mom category based on numbers always amazes me.

It is humbling and at times a bit overwhelming.

In my heart, I often whisper, “If they only knew what a mess I have made of things.”

Over and over again I am reminded of my own failings and shortcomings.

​The Rossiters are a living example of the fact that the quantity of parenting decisions does not always produce quality. 

​Strangely enough, the verse that comes to mind is found in Mark 4:41,
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“And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this that even the winds and waves obey Him?”

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