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A 30-Day Prayer Challenge: Praying Character Virtues For Your Children

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Good character is the one thing that will help your children the most. And one of the best things you can do for your children is pray Scripture for them!

[I am excited to bring you something of eternal value for your children. Kathie Morrissey of Character Corner has graciously allowed me to share this profound truth here.]

Whether you homeschool or not, you can have the best laid plans and have the most popular curriculum or best of food and interaction, but if your kids don’t have Godly character, you are going to have a hard time teaching them!

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Tenacious Monica of Hippo: Hope for Weeping (& Praying) Mom’s

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(By Christina Langella of Heavenly Springs blog.)

Augustine is considered one of the greatest theologians of all time. Christian History magazine writes, “After Jesus and Paul, Augustine of Hippo is the most influential figure in the history of Christianity.” [1] And, if the familiar adage is true, “Behind every great man is a great woman” there can be no greater example than Augustine and his mother, Monica.

But don’t take my word for it. Take his.

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The Easter Effect: What Happened To That ‘Gaggle Of Nobodies’ in the First Century A.D.

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‘The Incredulity of St. Thomas’ by Caravaggio. (Source)

By George Weigel

The first Christians were baffled by what they called ‘the Resurrection.’ Their struggle to understand it brought about astonishing success for their faith.

In the year 312, just before his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge won him the undisputed leadership of the Roman Empire, Constantine the Great had a heavenly vision of Christian symbols. That augury led him, a year later, to end all legal sanctions on the public profession of Christianity.

Or so a pious tradition has it.

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Antidepressants: REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, Nightmares & Death

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By Ann Blake-Tracy

As John received revelation upon revelation sitting exiled upon the Isle of Patmos, he issued a very strong warning for us in our day. He told us that our entire world would be deceived (lied to) through the sorceries (perhaps many) that would come out of Babylon. (Rev. 18:23-24)

He went on to say that the end result of this deception would be the demise of prophets, saints and many good men. In other words no one would be spared in this great deception by these sorceries. Remember that we were told that, if it were possible, even the very elect would be deceived.

So what is this sorcery of which John warns?

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Betsie and the Fleas

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Betsie ten Boom, Corrie’s older sister

Betsie and Corrie ten Boom spent time in notorious Ravensbrück Concentration Camp north of Berlin for hiding Jews in their home during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

The ten Boom family of Haarlem, Holland were watchmakers by trade. They also lived as devout Christians. Corrie was raised to understand that honoring God included respecting the Jewish people.

Here is Corrie ten Boom’s famous story of Betsie and the fleas from The Hiding Place: …

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