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Kids Christmas Magazine!

…It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!... Hello there wonderful Family & Friends! We have an exciting announcement regarding our kids Christmas initiative this year! In an effort to allow for more flexibility, newness and out-of-the-box ideas in reaching out to your community with the Reason for the Season –Jesus– we'd like to propose the following: *a 2009 Christmas Magazine*. This would be filled with photos & mini-testimonies or photo [+]

Squeezing every drop from a dollar

By John Dillin, The Christian Science Monitor, August 19, 2008 When I go on my daily four-mile walk and see a penny lying on the ground, I pick it up. Scottish habits die hard, even when your family has been in America for over 300 years. Recently here in Arlington, Va., the lowly penny became symbolic. For the first time, it now costs one cent to draw a gallon of water out of the tap in your [+]

Report reveals the safest, most effective sunscreens

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Food Reserves Anyone?

After reading this article, you may want to pray about the food reserve situation in your home & get some extra staples if you find a good deal. Below are some links for dehydrated food items, which is an option. Of course, stocking up extra on what you use daily is one of the best ways to prepare. If you have any insight, tips or you have found a good, easy way to keep [+]

Our Best Sex Advice

Marriage Partnership For 20 years Marriage Partnership has offered real, biblical, practical insight for bedroom issues. Here are some of the best. Planning. It's funny--a wife will put great effort and planning into meal preparation, but we think sex should be spontaneous. It's as if you were to go into the kitchen blindfolded and start taking things off the shelf and say, "Okay, we're going to have a spontaneous meal." It doesn't work that way. You have [+]

Honey beats meds at soothing kids' cough [+]

Children’s cold medicine recall

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Communication Do’s and Don’ts

Adapted from Surprised by Remarriage by Ginger Kolbaba (Revell) Try these eight tips for navigating the murky waters of communication: 1. Do be honest. Keeping secrets does nothing but frustrate you and perplex your spouse. 2. Do bring up an issue within 24 hours, or forget it. Don't allow a problem to remain hanging. 3. Do keep to the issue. If you start discussing who should babysit and end up arguing over discipline, you've moved off track. Take a [+]

Training for the long haul

Marriage is a lot like running a marathon--but the rewards are even better. By Billy Milton, Marriage Partnership Any athlete will tell you that the glamour event of Olympics track and field is the 100-meter sprint. Just watch these runners at the starting line--they strut like peacocks, showing off their muscles; pulling faces; mugging for the cameras; getting ready to explode from the blocks for 10 seconds or so of amazing effort. Nearly everyone can name a [+]