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One Reason to Fight for Your Marriage
October 28, 2016
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My grandparents recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. That is an incredible accomplishment and an amazing gift to my family. It is also a declining reality for older couples. There’s ...
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Still Running with the Lord
October 27, 2016
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THE REAL WORLD OF A SINGLE GRANDPARENT When my children were in high school, I watched “Good Morning, America!” every day. As I fixed breakfast, packed lunches and shooed my ...
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Focus Upon Helping Our Grandchildren Be Truly Thankful
October 24, 2016
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One of the most powerful things we can do as grandparents is to pray for our grandchildren. Over and over in Scripture, God promises to hear, listen to and answer our ...
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Experience Joy!
October 21, 2016
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How often have you heard grandparents and parents say, when talking about the children they love, the most important thing to them is for their grandchild or child to be ...
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Our Greatest Work
October 18, 2016
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As we see the condition of the world around us it is so easy to think there is nothing we can do to help the situation. We feel hopeless and ...
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Let’s Talk Grandparenting Ministry – the Single Grandmother
October 17, 2016
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Last year I had the wonderful opportunity to hear a number of people talk about grandparenting ministry and what it might look like in a church. Cathy Jacobs, from Pass ...
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A Legacy of Truth
October 14, 2016
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“Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you have. I consider it right, as long as I am ...
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Tradition: Ceremony and Serendipity
October 13, 2016
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“Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.” Exodus 23:14 When I was a child, our family had an annual Christmas tradition of re-enacting the Christmas ...
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Let’s Talk Grandparenting Ministry – The Role of Grandparents
October 11, 2016
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I believe churches need to take seriously their responsibility to engage, equip and encourage grandparents to pass on a heritage of faith to their grandchildren. As you consider ways to do ...
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Should You Be a Surrogate Grandparent?
October 10, 2016
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“God sets the lonely in families…” (Psalm 68:6) Sometimes God takes a deep longing of our hearts, a lost dream, and remolds it into something far beyond anything we can ...
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