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I Kissed Dating Good Bye – part three
In this post I will touch briefly on courtship and then move to why IKDG is controversial. In IKDG Harris doesn’t really go into the process of courtship. This is because Harris has written a whole other book on the subject called ‘Boy Meets Girl’. I haven’t read ‘Boy Meets Girl’ (yet!) but this is [...]
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye – part two
The book is back. First I want to deal with something that came up in the comments. In NZ we don’t really have a culture of dating, especially among those in their teens and early twenties. Young people tend to meet each other in group situations and would become a steady couple with out going [...]
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The battle of the Blue Penguin
My girls got this really cool game for Christmas. It’s called the Amazing Moa Hunt and it’s a game that tests your NZ geography. If you are looking for a present for a family or your family I would thoroughly recommend it. But the main purpose of this post is not to encourage consumerism. We [...]
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye – part one
This book was first published over 10 years ago. Because it has been around a while some of the ideas had filtered in to the Christian community. So before I began reading this book I was not unfamiliar with Joshua Harris’s ideas. In the first part of I Kissed Dating Goodbye (IKDG) Harris draws on [...]
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I’ve kissed dating good bye
I bet there is no surprise there, I’ve been married to the Hubster for almost 15 years. While on Holiday I read Joshua Harris’s book ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’. You may wonder why a women in her 30’s who has been married for a long time wanted to read a book about dating. I have [...]
Zoo to you
It seems that the behaviour of children is soliciting some media attention again. This article highlights that a survey conducted in Britain for Barnardos found 54% of adults thought children behaved like animals. Barnardos was disturbed by this finding. They thought it showed “unjustified and disturbing intolerance of children”. If ‘most’ children are not troublesome, [...]
Shepherding a Child’s Heart
Everyone wants to be a great parent—the biggest responsibility of parenthood is teaching your children to love Jesus with all of their heart, soul, and strength. For parents with children of any age, Dr. Tripp’s insightful, biblical teaching provides perspectives and procedures for shepherding your child’s heart into the paths of life. “Love the LORD [...]
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Birthday girl
I introduced G1 as being aged 8. Well not any more. Today is her 9th birthday. Here she is with her mocha sponge-roll birthday cake. This year I’m particularly struck by the fact that she is growing in to a young women. This has led me to reflect on my role in her life. I [...]
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Tama-whats-it
Guess what was lurking under our Christmas tree this year This is not my first choice of gift, in fact they would come pretty low in a list of things I think my children should play with. After a week this is what I think of Tamagotchi. Good points: They keep children quiet! they do [...]
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Bruce Ware on "Big Truths for Young Hearts"