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My brother Chad, and his friend, Zach, have been doing an internship this week with David Stein, host of “The David Stein Show: A Celebration of Life Through Sports.” The boys joined David on the air from 2-6 each morning; and today, on “Humble Wednesday” (yes, this is a rather unique sports show) Chad and Zach answered the question: “Who has influenced you the most through sports?”
I think you’ll enjoy their answers—even if you don’t like sports, and especially if you do.
Zach went first (episode 7, 6:06).
Listen online.
Chad answered next (episode 8, 5:19).
Listen online.
Then Dad called in and talked with host David Stein.
Listen online (episode 11). Listen online (episode 12).
(Picture courtesy, David Stein; left to right-Zach Newquist, Chad Mahaney, David Stein)
5:36 p.m. Generous=Mother-In-Law
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When Alice emailed us recently and asked if Feminine Appeal had been translated into Korean, we realized we never told you which of our books are available in various languages. Unfortunately Feminine Appeal is not in Korean yet, but Girl Talk and Shopping for Time have been translated—and they have beautiful cover art!
Here’s a complete list of translations for Feminine Appeal, Girl Talk and Shopping for Time, along with links to websites where you can purchase them. We are so humbled and grateful to these publishers for translating our books. We pray they will serve many women who read them in their native language.
Feminine Appeal
· Chinese (Simplified) – published by ZDL Books
· German – published by 3L Verlag
· Portuguese – published by Editora Vida
· Russian – published by Grace Publishing International, available here
Girl Talk
· Korean – published by Sallim Publishing Co., available here
· Russian – published by Grace Publishing International, available here
Shopping for Time
· Korean – published by Sallim Publishing Co., available here
7:46 p.m. Girls Night Out
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2010 at 3:14 pm | by Kristin Chesemore
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Motherhood
Last week, my son Andrew earned his first ten dollars mowing our neighbor’s yard. He’s learning the value of hard work and the benefits of diligent labor; but his father and I also want to instill in him principles of godly stewardship of money.
This isn’t easy. We’re raising our children in a culture where people seek identity in wealth and satisfaction from material possession. And because of sin in our children’s hearts (and, if we’re honest, in our hearts too!), they won’t grow into wise, honest, generous, God-fearing financial stewards without our help.
We need to teach them what the Bible says about money and train them to handle it according to biblical principles. That’s why I’m grateful for Randy Alcorn’s recent article, “Training Your Children to Manage Money.”
Mr. Alcorn suggests ten ways to help your children gain a biblical perspective on money and manage it wisely, including some creative ideas I’d never thought of before, such as: Take a field trip to a junkyard!
May this article provoke us all to teach to our kids about money while they are young and their earnings meager. Let’s pass on godly values that our children can carry with them into adulthood.
HT: Justin Taylor
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Pam sent us this adorable story about her son:
One communion Sunday my 3 boys were getting restless as they waited to be dismissed to their Sunday School. Eventually, one of the rascally 4-year old twins decided to take matters into his own hands. He angrily looked up at us with his arms crossed over his chest and exclaimed: “God said, let my people go!” Thankfully the rest of the congregation was singing a hymn but his dad and I had a good chuckle over that. I suppose he did retain something from family devotions.
We’ll see you all next week!
Nicole for the girltalkers
3:28 p.m. Licking the Beaters
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Lindsay wrote in with a question:
I have an 8-year-old son who LOVES computer and video games (pretty much anything audio-visual). He’s very young and we have very strict guidelines on what and how much he takes part in these things. But I feel like I am battling for my son’s heart in this matter. I (and my husband) am looking for some encouragement and guidance in how to turn his HEART from loving and longing for worldly things, to loving and longing for the Lord.
Many parents of young (and not-so-young!) children are confronted with the challenge of “shepherding a child’s heart” when it comes to video games.
As it happens, my dad answered a similar question awhile back, and my brother, Chad, posted his answer on the Sovereign Grace blog last week.
When it comes to idolatry of video games, Dad explains, you want to combine guidelines and restrictions with purposeful study of Scripture and a heart softened by your own sinful tendencies:
I want to try to introduce my son to a study that isn’t correction specific to an occasion. I want to study the heart, I want to study anger, I want to study idolatry, unrelated to an occasion where I am bringing discipline, so that the study hopefully can have the most effect. I want to engage in a study from Scripture. I want to choose age-appropriate material. I want to choose appropriate passages.
And then my study with my son is supplemented by stories from my life, because I do the same thing. I don’t cry anymore like a child but I know how to cry in adult ways. I want my child to know that no matter what the category, I can identify…
By humbling myself, I hope I make it easier for him to receive from me, so that when I say “Listen,” it’s not “Listen to your self-righteous father who is angry at you because he doesn’t understand why it requires this kind of attention to help you to see how stupid a video game is.”
It is too easy for me to view my son’s form of idolatry as childish, but in essence, at root, there is no difference between our idolatries. His expression is consistent with a 12 year old, mine is consistent with a 56 year old, but in essence it’s no different. Therefore I must make sure my heart is softened by my own sinful tendencies.
Read the whole thing. And from our archives you can learn how two moms handle video games in their homes.
3:56 p.m.
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