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More Beautiful You

This song has been out for a while. I just saw the video a few days ago and wished every girl could really understand that the images so many strive to be like are so unreal. I tried to embed the video, but couldn’t get it to work, so click on over.

More Beautiful You

Married to the Ministry Scavenger Hunt

I’m playing a little bloggy scavenger hunt that’s going on over at apreacherswife.com. I really hope I win because I am wanting The Pioneer Woman’s new cookbook.

The Treasures

1.  First Name.  Kim

2.  State and Country of Residence.  Georgia

3.  Husband’s Ministry Title.  Senior Pastor

4.  Length of time in Current Ministry Location.  We have lived in the metro Atlanta area for the last eleven years. The first seven years we were on staff at a church in a neighboring county,  but four years ago we started a church plant.

5.  Children?  If yes, give gender and ages. We have eight children.

Girl-18 , Girl-16, Boy-13,Girl-11, Girl-9, Boy-8, Girl-5, Girl-2.  and yes, with six girls I wish I had stock in Kotex.

6.  Number of unique homes in which you’ve lived during your marriage.  Eleven. Good thing, I like change.

7.  Cook Sunday lunch or eat out?  Cook.  Preacher daddy usually doesn’t get home until around 1:45 . We meet in a school and have to break everything down and put it into trailers after church. Plus, it would cost a fortune to take that many people out to lunch. But, when all the kids are gone, I’m eating out every Sunday. I’m just sayin’.

8.  Typically on time for Sunday School or not?  usually on time.

9.  Favorite TV Show. I would have to say 24 and Lost, can’t choose between them

10.  Something you watch/like/do that you would never tell the church people. (Except now you just did…lol)  Hmmm, not sure since I blog I think they know everything.

11.  Most annoying church-related pet peeve.  uummm…. people.   Actually it would be unrealistic expectations some people tend to have of those in ministry.

12.  One thing you need to throw away but can’t bring yourself to do it. Hmm, not sure. I like to throw stuff away.

13.  The one food you can not live without. I love Mexican food and a cold fountain Coke to go with it.

14.  Parsonage or have your own home? have our own home.

15.  Freak when the doorbell rings or always ready for a visitor? Ready for visitors, if they don’t mind a few toys on the floor.

conversations from the five year old

Mom to five year old, ” What are you going to be for Halloween?”

Five year old, “I think I will be a small town girl.”

Mom, “What  does a small town girl look like.” 

Five year old, ”She wears sandals.”

Mom, “I think that’s a great costume idea.”

Five year old, “Well, I think I will be a flower instead, but I’m gonna be a nice flower.”

Mom thinking to herself…as opposed to what… a venus fly trap.

Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be deadbeats

Click on over to The Pioneer Woman. I thought this was  a great post with some great resources.

Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be deadbeats

love handles

check out Jerry’s blog for the preview of our next series.   Too funny…love it! 

a few quotes…

“Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.” –—–C. T. Studd

“Beware of reasoning about God’s Word – obey it! ——– Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the acid test of devotion.  ————- Samuel Chadwick

“A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.” ——Leonard Ravenhill

“Resolved: that all men should live for the glory of God. Resolved second: That whether others do or not, I will.” —— Jonathan Edwards

“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.” – Hudson Taylor

“Our murmuring is the devil’s music.” – Thomas Watson

“God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.” – H.A. Ironside

weekly word… The Ram is on its Way

The Ram is on its Way

20 Oct 2009

Glynnis Whitwer

“So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, ‘On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.’” Genesis 22:14 (NIV)

Have you ever been in a situation so desperate that it looked hopeless?

Have you ever sat at the kitchen table wondering how you were going to pay the electric bill? Have you ever stood at a door that’s been slammed in your face by an angry teenager and despaired at ever having a relationship with him again? Have you ever had your heart broken so deeply that you wondered if you would ever feel whole again?

Sadly, we live in a broken world where desperate situations happen every day. I know someone reading this devotion is wondering how she will make it through the day because her situation looks hopeless. If that is you, I encourage you to keep reading. I believe God has a message of hope for you today.

That message is found in the Bible, in the story of a man who was dealing with his own desperate situation. His name was Abraham and he faced the greatest testing of his life. After longing for a son for many years, God finally gave Abraham a boy, whom he named Isaac. Abraham never imagined God would test his faith by asking him to sacrifice his son. But it happened.

It had to have been the darkest day of Abraham’s life as he trudged up the mountain, with firewood strapped to his son’s back. Every step took Abraham closer to what he believed to be the sad ending of a hopeless situation – the death of his son. Yet in spite of his sorrow, Abraham trusted God. His heart wasn’t soaring with joy. He wasn’t dancing up the mountain. But he put one foot in front of the other. Walking through the darkness of the situation; obeying His God’s commands.

Unbeknownst to Abraham, som ething else was walking up that mountain. Quietly. Out of sight. On the other side of the mountain. Something else was putting one foot in front of the other. Only Abraham couldn’t see it.

For every step Abraham took, a ram on the other side of the mountain took a step.

All Abraham saw that day was his solitary journey of pain. As he got closer to the top of the mountain, his dread must have increased. I wonder if he asked himself any questions. I would have. I would have wondered why hadn’t God intervened? Why hadn’t God stopped this testing? Couldn’t God see that Abraham was a man of faith? Why test him in this way?

But there was no answer. There was no voice from heaven. And so Abraham kept obeying his God’s command. He put Isaac on an altar and prepared to sacrifice his one and only son.

And just at that very moment, at the very last second, when it looked like the end had come, God spoke, stopping the sacrifice. Abraham looked up and there c aught in the thicket was a ram. Abraham took his son off the altar, replaced him with the ram, and offered the sacrifice to God.

Abraham named that place “Yahweh-Yireh” or “The Lord Will Provide.” And the story was written down for generations of God-followers to read. It was written so that you and I today would read it as we face our own hopeless situations. It was captured in print so that you and I would know that God is already planning for our provision. We don’t see it. We don’t hear it. But we can trust that our God is at work. On your behalf, and on mine.

I choose to trust God today. A ram is on the way.

Ridge-O-Lantern

Check out preacher daddy’s blog for a pic of our Ridge-O-Lantern

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worth reading…http://epm.org/media-files/newsletter/09fall.pdf

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Autumn Crafts

Autumn Crafts for kids

What part of the Body are you…

This made me laugh.

Too far away to hear

I opened the door and a wave of emotion washed over me. The room was empty and bare, but I knew the college girl had been there just a few days before. I missed her more at that moment than I had since she left. I missed seeing her face each morning, talking with her throughout the day. Hearing her laughter in the evenings.  I wanted to call her name in hopes she might just answer.  I knew she was too far away to hear me, but I called her name anyway. I  wondered what she was doing at that minute, was she happy, sad, hanging out with friends, or writing a paper.

I wonder if there are days the Lord calls to me, but I cannot hear because I am too far away.

Are you too far away today to hear Him? I know He is calling. He has been calling since the beginning. Sometimes we are too far away to hear and sometimes we are just afraid to answer.

^{Genesis 3:9} Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

Chicken Cacciatore

4 chicken breasts cut up

1 small onion chopped

1 large jar of sliced mushrooms

1 large can tomatoes 29 oz.

1 large can tomato sauce

1 can Hunts Italian Sauce…I have a hard time finding this anymore, so I use 16 oz of spaghetti sauce

1 tsp parsley

1 tsp minced garlic

1 tsp oregano

1 cup water

1/4 cup red cooking wine.

Brown chicken in oil. Put all ingredients in a crock pot cook on low for at least six hours.