Share How to Heal Your Disappointing Marriage By Pastor Kevin Cooley You have GOT to know this to be successful in Marriage: (run-on sentence warning) We all have hurts from our past, quirks in our personalities, & ignorance regarding the opposite sex that only marriage will fix & it will take years for the process [...]
Keep Reading » 2Share Patience – A Lost Virtue in Parenting by Stephanie Massey James 1: 2-4 (New King James Version) 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and [...]
Keep Reading » 1Share Never stop having fun with your teenagers by Pastor Travis & Jackie Strickland One of my favorite things to hear my four year-old son say is, “Dad, will you play with me?” He could ask to go play with the neighbors or ask me to buy him another toy, but instead he ask me [...]
Keep Reading » 0Share Brother Sister Rivalry by Stephanie Massey If you have more than one child, you know how sibling rivalry can come in to play. It’s quite annoying and frustrating if you ask me. There are rivalries between brothers, but it seems the dynamic between brothers and sisters can be much harder. With brothers they can [...]
Keep Reading » 1Share by Kim Marshall When I was in college, one of my favorite classes was “teaching elementary art”. It appealed to my creative side, yes, but one of the most interesting things about that class was learning that kids go through similar stages. They go through them at different times and in different ways, but [...]
Keep Reading » 0Share Enjoy Your Children Well, this is my last blog for the Challenge, so it starts with “E” … the last letter in “discipline”. I wish someone had reminded me daily to relax and enjoy my kids! As a very young mother of three (ages 5, 18 months and 1 month) who had never [...]
Keep Reading » 2Share What’s the Culture of Your House? Part 2 “The mouth of the righteous is a well of life… the lips of the righteous feed many.” Pro. 10:11, 19-21, 32 If the people around you were dependent on YOUR words for nourishment would they be dying of malnutrition or thriving? Proverbs 16:24 says, “Pleasant words [...]
Keep Reading » 0Share You Do the Math and Solve Your Own Marital Problems By Adrienne Cooley In our almost 20 years in ministry we have noticed something about couples as we have sat down with many friends through the years to try to help them sort out their differences. We have dealt with everything from physical, sexual, [...]
Keep Reading » 1Share Guess Who Takes More Time! Infants? Children? or Teens? by Adrienne Cooley I was recently at a Minister’s Conference where I was able to thank a very wise lady who is a missionary to Europe for some of the best advise I have gotten as a Pastor’s wife and mom. I actually asked her [...]
Keep Reading » 0Share Something To Do By Pastor Travis Strickland Over the years we’ve heard teenagers say, “There is nothing to do in this town.” Now we’ve all said that at one point regardless of where we’ve lived. When I hear that statement I immediately say, “That’s not true, because we live in a beautiful city with [...]
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