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Joey and Carla Link January 15, 2025 “Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.” According to this verse, God expects children to obey. He doesn’t hope they will or keep His fingers crossed. He expects it, no ifs or buts about it. Not only does He expect children to obey, He goes on…

Joey and Carla Link January 8, 2025 When our kids were growing up, I often wished they would give us their irritating behaviors and replace them with respectful obedience for our Christmas gift. When the new year came in and the same behaviors with it, I sighed deeply, knowing for those behaviors to leave, Joey…

Joey and Carla Link December 18, 2024 In the midst of the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, how do you make the nativity the focal point of your kids Christmas celebration? This is an especially difficult task in a culture that wants to remove Jesus from the holiday season altogether.  Deuteronomy 6:7-9 says the…

Joey and Carla Link December 11, 2024 I don’t know about you, but I (Carla) have been stressing about getting our Christmas cards in the mail. I haven’t intentionally put it off, I just haven’t gotten around to it either. Last night I asked myself, “Would God want me to be anxious about a card we…

Joey and Carla Link December 4, 2024 When I was growing up, one of the favorite movie musicals my mom and my sisters and I liked to watch was “Fiddler on the Roof”. Written in 1905, it is about Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman with five daughters. Tevye tries to explain the customs in their…

We’re all about to sit around the table with family and friends as the Thanksgiving season is upon us. It is good to sit around a wonderful meal and share what we are thankful for. Most of us are thankful for the presence of those in our lives who we love and who love us…

Joey and Carla Link November 13, 2024 In today’s culture, “It’s all about me” is truly the mantra of most you meet. You can’t turn on the TV without hearing commercials touting or celebrities talking about self-care. Now we are in total agreement that you need to take care of yourself. When our bodies are…

Joey and Carla Link November 6, 2024 Peer pressure. Is your first thought negative? Ours usually is. There is such a thing as positive peer pressure. Warning signs your kids (10 yrs and up) are being drawn into negative peer pressure. Information in this blog was taken from the Mom’s Notes presentations “Understanding Peer Pressure, Part 1”, “Understanding Peer Pressure,…

Joey and Carla Link October 30, 2024 We no longer live in a world we can trust. Oh, how we wish that were different, but it’s not. The best way to keep a protective arm around your kids with society’s morals is to keep your family united and strong. However, as kids grow, they are…

Joey and Carla Link October 23, 2024 “Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘encourage’ as “to inspire with courage, to hearten, cheer on or up.”  When our children felt that there was nothing they could do right (don’t…