Our family is a quite often asked how we handle words such as “harlot” or “prostitute” or “sodomite” when reading the Bible in our nightly family worship. This seems to be a common concern among parents, like ourselves, who seek to shelter their children, while also placing a high value on instructing them in spiritual…
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Take 2… Can Women Without Children Be Homemakers?
Note from our Founder/Director: At The Well has many wonderful writers that seek to bring God’s truth to our readers on a daily basis. We have an incredible team of Godly women that I am blessed to work with. Earlier today, we had a post for our Woman to Woman category that addressed the question:…
Connecting Christ to Christmas Through Family Traditions!
Growing up, every night during the Christmas season, we would sit around the tree. We would sing Christmas carols, drink hot cocoa, and discuss our tree’s decorations and how they represented aspects of Jesus’ birth, death and resurrection. For instance, my Mom had the traditional 70′s/80′s gold tinsel garland (that represented the gold the wise…
God, Family, and Traditions
In every family tradition we try to instill character qualities with our children. Not only do we want to create memories, we also want to teach them godly values and inspire them to think of family as being fun and important! We want our children to desire to be with us and be celebrating with…
Reformation Day Activities
Our family does not take part in Halloween celebrations for many reasons (our views are summed up here), but we do take part in Reformation Day, which is celebrated on October 31st. Our family plans for and looks forward to this day. If you would like to learn more about this church holiday, below are…
Teaching Servitude
Last month I talked about the importance of starting a family ministry and how we need to prioritize this appropriately. Galatians 5:13 says, “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.” Most of us mothers have carved out…
The Importance of Starting a Family Ministry
I know that most moms, especially ones of young children, are in a continually harried state of mind, most of the time, just trying to juggle meal planning, child-training, and laundry, but there is also a most important addition to that usual to-do list…family ministry! Since husbands and fathers are scripturally the head of the…
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