Category: marriage

97 of the Best Homemaking Tools on the Net for .31 Each??!!

 

 

 

$640 worth of fabulous homemaking resources for only $29.97???

That is NOT a typo.

 

 

More than 75 widely-known bloggers and authors in the homemaking sphere have joined together to offer 97 of their most popular eBooks and eCourses, valued at just over $600, for the incredibly low price of $29.97!

More than anything, our goal for this sale was for it to be, well… ultimate! We firmly believe that you will not find a more comprehensive collection of homemaking resources anywhere on the web, and particularly not in this price range. For this low price, you gain access to every single one of these resources, so that you can customize your own collection to contain exactly the ones you want and know you’ll use.

PLUS FREE GIFTS!

To sweeten the pot, we’ve also teamed up with 10 companies to bring you over $140 in bonus offers, giving you an affordable opportunity to get products you’ll use and love for only the cost of shipping, or in some cases, entirely for free! (It’s more than worth it JUST FOR THESE GIFTS!)

Another perk: Buy a bundle from this page and you’ll be entered to win a free, hard copy of my book, When Motherhood Feels Too Hard and a copy of our Scripture Songs CD!

What customers who bought this are saying:

“I got this yesterday, got all of our books downloaded, and printed the first part of 1+1+1=1′s kindergarten curriculum. I am so excited to bring it into our homeschool day today. It’s so simple to implement I could get it ready last night and be prepared this morning to share it with the kids. My younger son is going to love it. It was worth the price of the bundle just by itself. Goodness, just having the homeschool section was worth more than the $29.27 price.” -Kari

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What’s Included in the Sale?

When you purchase The Ultimate Homemaking eBook collection, you will get instant access to any of the 97 eBooks and eCourses listed below.

PLUS over $140 of FREE Bonuses

Each The Ultimate Homemaking eBook collection comes with more than $140 of FREE Bonuses from 10 companies that we know you’ll love. More on these bonuses below.

Please note: This collection is only available from 9 a.m. EST on April 29th to 11:59 p.m. EST on May 4th. There will be no late sales offered.

Home & Property {Cleaning, Organizing, Decor}

Educational Children’s Resources

Budgeting {Finance & Time}

In the Kitchen {Recipes and Cooking}

Pregnancy & Baby Care

Holidays & Special Events

Spiritual Growth

Marriage & Romance

Motherhood

Health & Fitness

Beauty

Working from Home & Blogging

Ecourses

    PLUS, You will receive FREE Bonuses from these companies…

    A FREE Two-Month Membership to Fit2B Studio, where their wholesome workouts for the whole family are tummy safe and particularly target Diastasis Recti (split abs). ($19.98 value. No shipping restrictions.)

     

    A $15 store credit to TruKid. With products like their aware-winning sun care, they are dedicated to providing all natural skin and hair care for kids, babies, and now pets. ($15.00 value. Standard shipping applies. International shipping available.)

     

    Your choice of incredible natural products like sea salt and clay for FREE. Choose from the Redmond Trading Earthpaste Bundle ($24.90 value) or the Facial Mud Bundle ($26.90 value). (Standard shipping applies. Continental US only.)

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    Your choice of: a FREE 3-Month Subscription (for new accounts) or 30% off a One Year Subscription. Plan to Eat is an online menu planner that uses your recipes, scheduled for the days you want them. ($15.00 value. No shipping restrictions.)

     

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    A $10 store credit to Union28, plus 20% off any regular price items. Their marriage apparel lets you celebrate your spouse in style. ($10.00 value. Standard shipping rates apply. International shipping available, but free shipping only available within USA.)

     

    A $10 store credit plus 1 FREE lip balm from Bee All Natural. Their whole body products nourish and heal, and are made using only the highest quality, food grade, organic ingredients. ($13.49 value. Standard shipping applies. International shipping available.)

     

    A FREE 2 oz. bottle of your choice of liquid herbal formula from TriLight Health. They specialize in fast acting, great tasting natural herbal remedies. ($12.95 value or more. Standard shipping applies, within the USA only.)

     

    Your choice of 3 FREE ePlanners OR a 3-Month FREE Membership to ListPlanIt, whose mobile lists will help to organize your life. ($15.00 value. No shipping restrictions.)
     

    The fine print:

    Bonus Offers

    • Each bonus offer can be redeemed once only per eBook Bundle purchase.
    • For each bonus offer, transaction numbers or proof of purchase may be required at the time of redemption.
    • All bonus offers are free gifts from the bonus sponsors, are their sole responsibility to provide, and are subject to availability.
    • All bonus offers expire at midnight on May 25th, 2013 (3 weeks from the last day of this sale).

    General

    • It is your responsibility to download and back-up your purchase within the 1-month download time-frame. With proof of purchase, we can renew download links up until August 1st, 2013. After this date we will no longer have access to the books and will not be able to provide any new links to download.
    • Due to the nature of this sale, there will be no refunds available. However, we would invite you to read our Frequently Asked Questions page to learn more about the file types, the download process, how the bonus offers work, etc.

     

    Please note: This collection is only available from 9 a.m. EST on April 29th to 11:59 p.m. EST on May 4th. There will be no late sales offered, so make sure that you get your bundle right away!

    Particularly for those wanting to read these ebooks on their mobile devices (iPhones or iPads, Android, Kindle, etc.) you will want to learn more about the file types, how to download them correctly, and how to transfer them to your device.

    This post includes affiliate links, and I make a portion of the sale of each ebook bundle. Thanks for your support of this site!

categories christian living, family/parenting, marriage, motherhood, pregnancy | Word Warrior | datetime April 29, 2013 8:00 am | comments Comments (16)

Growing Marriage: Lessons in Love From My Husband

Today is our 15th anniversary!

Fifteen years ago we married, mainly because we were infatuated with each other and thought it would be cool to get to share a house. God’s direction and miraculous grace on those two wayward young people cannot be measured, as I ponder the depth and growth of our love–he’s my husband, my teacher, my best friend.

Marriages are built not fallen into. They are tended, not run on autopilot. The years are made of weeks, the weeks days, and the days moments. And what happens in those moments is what a marriage becomes.

I’ve learned a lot in the last fifteen years, mostly about myself and how much a good marriage depends on our choices. But there’s a disclaimer: My husband is a rock star. You know, not in the literal sense, just that he makes marriage easy and I think he’s awesome. He hardly ever, ever, ever gets mad at me. That’s worth a gold medal. He listens to me and takes to heart my thoughts, feelings and opinions. He likes to make me happy. He serves me and never keeps score. (He isn’t perfect, but you know that, because he is human.) And even with a man like that, a marriage could easily falter and break under the weight of daily cares and careless neglect.  I can still find things to complain about–we all can, because we’re human and sinful and selfish.

Two big things I’ve learned in my fifteen years:

1.  Expectations will destroy your marriage or at least make it miserable.

2.  Choosing to see the best in your spouse makes all the difference.

We see those with whom we live under a microscope (too bad we don’t see ourselves that way enough). Marriage is work because it requires us to keep liking a person even though we know all his faults and even though we are more familiar with him than anyone. (Why does “familiarity too often breed contempt”?)

But that should be just the sweetness of marriage: the intimacy to know a person and be known, and still be unconditionally loved. Because a person who can love another person, despite faults and humanness, is a person who has chosen to live in forgiveness, loving as he wishes to be loved.

And the person receiving full acceptance and love, despite  shortcomings, is a person who has found a safe reprieve from everything harsh and scary in the world.

And what if we were more careful with the gift of a spouse? What if we smiled at him like we smile at our friends? What if we picked up his clothes gratefully, remembering how painful it would be if tomorrow there were no clothes because there was no husband? What if we found little ways to make his life easier or more fun? What if we remembered to joke around, play pranks and in general, lighten up? What if we really worked on making him enjoy being with us, looking forward to us?

Here’s the part that hurts to write: I’m learning it, but I’m still not good at living it. I still create expectations and allow myself disappointment if they’re not met; I can still be so quick to point out his faults when there are ten of mine own staring me in the face. I am often far too careless, taking his gentleness and goodness for granted.

I’m learning from him. Because he loves without expectation and he forgives as if it’s the first offense. He pretends to be blind to my faults and that is amazing to me. Is this how Jesus loves His bride? Surely it’s close.

Thank you, my beloved, for putting flesh on real love for me.

categories marriage | Word Warrior | datetime April 17, 2013 11:59 pm | comments Comments (31)

Older Women Teaching the Younger Women: Titus 2 or “Christian Feminist”?

Recently I spoke at a ladies’ retreat and made this point: “You older ladies (we’re all older to someone) are teaching the younger ones whether it’s deliberate or not”.

Question is, what are we teaching? If you believe the maxim, “As the church, so goes the nation“, we have a heavy responsibility and we’re largely to blame for our own decline.

But stop, look and listen. Again I said to those ladies last weekend, “Women hold a tremendous amount of power to change things. Why do you think Satan approached the woman in the garden?”

What is being passed down, woman to woman in our culture, in the church? I submit to you that the message is often inaccurate and powerfully destructive. Women, what you believe is what you teach; and what you teach helps shape the next generation.

If our standard isn’t the Word of God, we are allies with the father of lies.

Marriage: Husbands

First, we need a return to teaching women to love their husbands, not compete with them, or subtly treat them as inferior. The teaching is in the jokes, the sly comments, the subtle nuances. We need bold women, to look younger women lovingly in the eyes, and give them hope for their marriages, the stuff that joyful homes are made of. We need them passing on the strength and dignity of a godly helper, of the beauty of a woman who is for her husband, flaws and all.

Marriage: Children

We need women teaching women what the Bible says about children. That God “desires godly offspring”, that raising children is the first line of the Great Commission work. We need to understand how marriage is meant to reflect the church, and that as the church is expected to naturally be fruitful and make disciples, so is marriage. Shame on us, for a generation of Christian women who have taught that children are a costly burden to be “put up with” and not a heritage from the Lord, given for us to steward. Shame on us for treating motherhood like some side job instead of the powerful, constant, eternal work of shaping the next generation.

To love our children is to give all we have to make them soldiers of Christ. It’s not to spoil them or live out for them a worldview that emphasizes self-gratification. We are sojourners here, given one shot to “set up for ourselves treasures in Heaven”.

Let’s be so careful, ladies, whatever stage of life you’re in, as you are teachers of the women behind you, to exemplify truth and to embrace the power we’ve been given to change the world.

categories christian living, marriage, motherhood, Rockin' & Rulin' Mothers | Word Warrior | datetime March 10, 2013 8:04 pm | comments Comments (43)

The True Meaning of Home Lies in Our True Identity! (Part 2)

In the introduction to this series about “the hope for society lying in the real meaning of home”, a commenter “clarified” that Jesus is the Hope for society.

Yes! And the two, actually, are not exclusive. Listening to a sermon today brought a profound epiphany that perfectly explains:

What Jesus did for us was offer us the chance to become new creatures. THE MOST IMPORTANT part of that, as it relates to the way we live, is that our identity is found in Him.

Wait before you just casually pass that by…it’s packed with more meaning than you might realize.

In Genesis, God declared man’s identity: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. This is huge! Our purpose for living is to mirror His glory in all we do. Even those who aren’t His reflect His attributes at times.

But for the believer, we must know that our purpose is to fulfill the mission of reflecting our Creator in every part of life. This is why we were created.

“Our identity determines our life course.” (Mark Driscoll)

So, as that relates to the purpose of this series, our lives, our homes, reflect whether we understand who we are in Christ.

We are living in a culture where, even those who claim Christ, have traded their true identity for trying to find it in the worship of idols. Idols of consumerism, idols of self-worth, of people, of recreation–looking to achieve their identity rather than understanding they have already received it.

This is what has propelled every rebellion under the sun. A refusal to accept the design of our Creator, to obey Him, to fulfill His purposes for us, to find our worth in our created place. It started in the garden, with a desire to “be something more” than they already were. They were blessed. And it wasn’t enough.

So how do we reflect God’s image in our homes, families, marriages? What does it look like to mirror His likeness in all we do?

  • Begin with truly renewing your mind with your true identity. Let go of the fear of man, the drive to become something outside of who you already are, the need to “be better” or “measure up”. You are complete, whole and ready to be equipped “for every good work”. Fighting against your identity in Christ will only bring misery.
  • As a wife, a mom and a woman, study the Scriptures and find out how your life is to reflect the Creator. This manifests itself in a million ways from your gift of art, to your role in your home. to your dress, your speech and your responsibilities.
  • Understand that the primary picture of Christ and His church is embedded in your marriage. Which is where “home” begins. Begin to pour yourself into becoming “Christ to the world” through your marriage. What are some characteristics of Christ and His church? Love, submission, worship, communion (fellowship) unity, fruitfulness, forgiveness, respect, sacrifice.
  • Begin to see your home as the grounds for growing this picture of the GOSPEL. The soil must be fertile for spiritual growth, the atmosphere must be healthy for emotional growth, the conversations must flourish for fellowship and mental growth, and every effort must be made for unity, discipleship and fruitfulness.

These are primarily spiritual aspects but it must begin there. (We’ll begin to talk about practical implications in the next post.) Right thinking about who we are, what our purpose is and how that affects our lives and homes is crucial.

We live in a culture with mostly wrong thinking. Renewing is in order and a set of blinders, with a face like flint, set to the Son will aid our mission.

 

categories family/parenting, marriage, motherhood | Word Warrior | datetime February 3, 2013 8:52 pm | comments Comments (16)

The Secret to Starting and Staying the Course in a New Year

Want to know one of the biggest problems in families? Lack of vision. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” How important is vision?

It’s EVERYTHING.

A new year. Fresh. Starting over. Doing it better. And the secret? The secret to starting fresh AND staying the course?

VISION.

And what better way to ignite yours than the new, “The Best of Visionary Womanhood” ebook? Thirty-five of the MEATIEST articles from the 2011/2012 VW archives…this is what you need.

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categories christian living, family/parenting, homeschooling, large families, marriage, motherhood | Word Warrior | datetime January 2, 2013 1:57 am | comments Comments (1)

To Correct or Not to Correct….Your Husband

Don’t miss this fantastic article by my friend and co-blogger, Natalie @ Visionary Womanhood. It is a much-needed discussion for the health of Christian marriages.

“Error in the church has serious repercussions that reverberate for GENERATIONS. There are blogs and websites springing up all over the Internet authored by women who lived under the false teaching that wives should not contribute to their marriage relationship by exhorting, restoring and building up their husband to love and good deeds.

This sick teaching produced the sick fruit of sick families.  And ultimately, sick children…who grew up.   Now those children are vomiting all over forums and blogs designed to blaspheme God and His Ways…when it wasn’t even God’s fault!  It was the unhealthy, man-made, “holy” rules of their parents in a sinful reaction to cultural feminism.” Read the rest…

categories marriage | Word Warrior | datetime December 28, 2012 5:05 pm | comments Comments (3)

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