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Free Concert at Shepherd of the Hills
Saturday, February 7, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Seats are limited
Free Tickets Available in the Breezeway on Sunday, Feb. 1 or in the church office (M-Th, 9am-3:30pm).
The good folks at HomeWord have put together a special edition of their radio program discussing principles that families can use to get out from under debt and generally survive these tough economic times. Guests Dave Ramsey (author of the book, The Total Money Makeover), Ron Blue (author of Master Your Money), Howard Dayton (Founder of Crown Financial Ministries), Wall Street Journal business reporter Francine Huff, and Ellie Kay –“America’s Family Financial Expert”, join with host Jim Burns to disucss this timely and critical issue. You can access the radio special here.
Answers to Your Kids Questions
This morning at Mom’s Club a question was asked about the existence of books that offer answers to the more complicated questions that kids ask of their parents related to life and faith. The book I mentioned then I want to pass along now as well. Answers to Your Kids Questions by Chuck Colson provides a series of questions that your kids might ask of you and his take on how to answer them. The target audience is teenagers, but the answers can provide ideas for adaptation for pre-teens as well.
What is it that makes your family unique from other families?
Have you ever considered that question? Until reading Patrick Lencioni’s book The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family, I had not given much serious consideration to that question either. In his book, Lencioni tells the story of a wife and mother trying to come to grips with the comment, delivered by her husband, that if his clients ran their business like they run their family, they would be out of business.
As the story unfolds, the wife wrestles with this challenge to the point that she develops a method of clarifying the purpose for a family based on her husbands corporate consulting strategies.
By now I am sure that you can tell that this is not your typical parenting book. Lencioni brings not his clinical understanding of family therapy or marriage counseling to this book, but rather approaches from a unique direction. If you are open to considering what the business world might have to say to help you get a better control over decision making in your family or if you are just curious about the other two questions, then get yourself a copy. It is well worth the read.
Here’s what you can look for in your new Home Base for January 2009: Click Here to download/read.
WAYS TO PROPERLY CLAIM OUR CHILDREN
FRESH INSIGHTS INTO A BREED APART – TWEENS
HOW OUR FAMILY CONFIDANTS HELP US BUILD CONFIDENCE
WHY GRANDPARENTS COME IN ALL KINDS
Two new issues of “24/7″ have been recently posted as well.
Click Here to download/read the January 2009 edition.
Click Here to download/read the February 2009 edition.
