You Are Invited to the “Living a Legacy” Conference

I am SO EXCITED to join my best real life friends Kathy Brodock, of Teaching Good Things and Robin White, of Celebrating Motherhood Everyday in announcing the Living a Legacy Conference to be held on May 5-6, 2012, in Branchville, Alabama!!!

Kathy, Robin and I have talked about hosting a blog conference for the last few years but the timing never worked out…until now! Will you make plans to join us?

As Christian women our purpose is to live a life that will bring glory to God and pass that legacy on to the next generation. We are seeing a new awareness of the importance of home in the church and society , the return of women to build that home, kindled by a passion for loving Christ and transmitting that love to the next generation, and we are thrilled to join in that reformation!

We want to hold up the arms of women everywhere, encourage them in the trenches of ”my-life-for-yours” living, and give them a renewed commitment to forsake what the world esteems and embrace a life-work that will last for eternity!

• The conference will include eight sessions, complete with question and answer time on  Saturday.

• Come be encouraged and equipped to pass on a lasting legacy for God’s glory.

• There will be wonderful legacy-building resources given away all day long and lots of ‘girlie treats’!

• Lunch and supper are included in the registration fee.

• You won’t want to miss the vendor area, featuring different home industries, books and products. If you would like to be a vendor email me for more information!

• We are honored to have a very special guest speaker, Sherry Lee, the widow of Tom Lee, and the mother of 13 children.  Sherry is well known for her kind and gentle spirit, and  is truly a mother whose children rise up and call her blessed.  The Lord took Tom’s life and their home during the Alabama Tornado in April of 2011. Sherry and the children are truly living out Tom’s legacy to the glory of God.

• Four of our daughters will share how they are carrying on their family’s legacy for God’s glory.

Conference Topics

The Heart of Hospitality -  How to Disciple the Nations One Home at a Time, Kathy Brodock

The Industrious Home – How to Teach a Good Work Ethic Through Daily Chores and Home Business, Kathy Brodock

Bring It On Home – How to Save and Earn Enough Money to Come Home, Kelly Crawford

God’s Heart Toward Children- Legacy, Not Liability, Kelly Crawford

Children Who Impact the Culture -How to Train Your Children Thoughtfully and Intentionally for the Glory of God, Robin White

Celebrating Motherhood through Adoption, Reversals and Foster Care, Robin White

Daughters of Legacy-  Four of our daughters will share how they are living out their legacy for God’s glory as they serve and work from home.

”Leegacy” -  Sherry Lee, mother of 13, will share about the loss of her husband and home during the April 2011 tornado and how she is pressing forward with the family’s legacy.

There will be a question and answer time after each session.

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I would be such a delight to get to meet you! Come if you can and spread the word!

A Letter to My Children…Join Me @ Raising Homemakers

One of my most responded-to posts–”A Letter to My Children About Marriage” revisited today at Raising Homemakers…

“Should the Lord give you the good gift of a husband or wife, and I hope He does, there are a few things I want you to know. Things that you may not hear from anyone else, and certainly not on TV or other media. Sadly, your church may not even tell you.”  Read the rest.

How to Have a Happier Marriage

Hurry to Enter the HUGE giveaway at A Mother’s Heritage!

Jenny @ A Mother’s Heritage, a delightful, encouraging spot for wives and mothers, is offering a huge giveaway in celebration of her one-year blog anniversary! Jump over right now to enter to win a number of great prizes and receive special discounts from her sponsors…but hurry, the giveaway ends tonight (Saturday)!

There are 9 great prizes to be won, including a $50 gift certificate from Fruitful Vine Creations, a custom, vinyl lettering company.

It is a blessing to me that all of us, as an on-line community, can help encourage and build the Lord’s kingdom, simply by sharing with other women the counsel, inspiration and practical advice we have found to be helpful. Join me in spreading the word…you never know how another woman’s life could be changed.

Humility: The Only True Mark

Who was He? This Jesus?

“I want to be like Him.”

That is what a Christian is, right? A “follower of Christ”…one who has devoted his life to “becoming like Him”?

All the while we seek the easier virtues, the more visible ones.

Joy: we can be joyful. Bold: we can be bold. Different: we can be different. Zealous: oh yes.

And while Christ was all these things, they did not define Him. What defined Him was the one crowning virtue from which all others spring forth….

Humility.

(Am I like Him?)

But not humility as in some posture before the throne, some temporary form during prayer and worship…

“True humility is to be made of no reputation…it is in our most unguarded moments that we truly show who we are and what we are made of. To know a truly humble person, you must follow that one in the common course of daily life.” -Andrew Murray, Humility

I am pierced to the heart as I measure my love for Him.

“It is a solemn thought that our love for God is measured by our everyday relationships with others. Except as its validity is proven in standing the test of daily life with our fellowmen, our love for God may be found to be a delusion.” -Andrew Murray, Humility

I am broken as I recount yesterday’s harsh words…an “invitation” to wrath, a lack of longsuffering with these little, gangling sheep in my care.

(Am I like Him?)

“It is in our relationships with one another, in our treatment of each other, that true lowliness of mind and a heart of humility are seen.” -Andrew Murray, Humility

If I am a Christian–one desiring to follow Christ–I must make it my FIRST aim to become “nothing”, empty, so that He can fill me with His spirit…a spirit of meekness and humility. It is only when I know that I am nothing, that I can esteem others better than myself.

“Let this mind be in you…”

If I strive for anything in this life, it must be a giving up of my own will to be conformed to His image. It is the only true mark of a disciple.

“Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a virtue along with the others, but is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God and allows Him, as God, to do all.” -Andrew Murray, Humility

Humanism: The Self-Destructing Religion Infecting Christians

I would love for you to join me at Visionary Womanhood for today’s post!

“That the Lord desires to rule in the hearts of His children because it brings them LIFE is a fact to be reckoned with.  But He will not barge in and take control.  He wants submission to the authority of His lordship.  And those who refuse that submission will self-destruct by the very nature of God and the laws He set forth from Creation.”