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The Word is just one begger telling another begger where the bread is. – Charles Wiggins, guest pastor and missionary in Tanzania, Africa

We tweet and Facebook about our favorite restaurants.

“The bread here is fantastic! You have to come.”

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Perspective: baby and the blog conference

While I was swapping business cards (and wow! Y’all have cute business cards) and talking about things like monetization, brand relationships, content strategy and the like at Blissdom, my friend Peggy was birthing new life into this world.

Just when … Read More

Writing with Bianca Olthoff: Exercise 2 {Blissdom 2013}

What? You missed yesterday’s post about the fabulous Bianca Olthoff? That’s okay. Go here: Bianca Olthoff Blissdom Writing Exercise 1

Exercise Two: Identify on a timeline five high points in life and five low points.

I won’t share the gory … Read More

Delight in Christ {One Little Word}

At the beginning of this year I selected one little word (aka OLW) that I would carry with me throughout 2013. It took a while to come up with the word, but as soon as it crossed my mind I … Read More

Easter delight

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Sweet treats for Santa, his reindeer, the elf on the shelf and mom

This week I asked my friend Amy from OurEverydayDinners.com about the best treats to leave for Santa, the Reindeer and the elves. Amy is my go-to girl for all things food because I am lazy and don’t want to spend hours of my life searching my Pinterest boards. I pin things on Pinterest, but then never ever go back to them. That’s a different topic for a different day, though. Back to Santa… Read More

Do good Christian parents hand their kids iPads and iPods?

Guest post by Jennifer Mullen

My parents don’t understand. When we visit them, I am on my phone or laptop, my husband is on his iPad, and the kids are on the iPod.

They see these devices as divisive.

What they don’t see is what I see: Read More

Safe travels y’all: A Christmas memory

Steve and I were headed to my parents’ lake house in Scott, AR, on Christmas day 2007. The lake may seem like an odd choice for holiday festivities, but it truly is gorgeous. And my dad is the Clark Griswold of dock lights. Well… if Clark only had one strand of those big colorful lights and an oversized faded red bow. Read More