Following the positive responses to yesterday's article on Family Finances, I have decided to write several more posts on various aspects of our journey toward financial peace. The first thing we tackled was budgeting. Here are the things we learned from Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace: In a marriage, it must be a team effort!The free …
Before I tell you what we've accomplished and where we are headed, I want to come clean about our financial history. Here goes: My mom ran the finances in my childhood household. We always had what we needed, but never an overabundance. She used some kind of cash envelope system, which I didn't understand. My …
I adore Christmas carols! I love the way they transport us into the story of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. They tell the story of God coming into the world through the Christ Child. We urge Him onward with "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" and "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus." We journey with Mary and Joseph …
An original version of the classic poem for a Chapel skit. ‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas, when all across the ice shelf, Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that Jesus Christ would soon be there. The elves were …
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Today was a day of stark contrast, one that I wasn't expecting. We began the day with a bus ride toward Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. At an overlook near the city, we stopped to get the lay of the land. A valley lay beneath us with two mountains in the distance. Side by …
From the Jewish art of Marc Chagall to the Christian church of Eim Kerem
Today was a once-in-a-lifetime treat! Our study group was allowed to enter and photograph the third most holy place to Muslims, the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mound in the Old City of Jerusalem.
