Give a Pig a Pancake

Posted by Hallee on Mar 30, 2010 in apologetics, biblical manhood, Biblical womanhood, Christian Faith, Hallee's Galley, holiness

One of the tenets that we live by is best said in Romans 14:2-17. What you eat, and what we eat, what we feed our families, is a choice. When we are criticized for our choice to follow God’s dietary laws with respect to eating clean real food, it always strikes us as kind of strange. There is hardly a more personal choice in the world than what one chooses to consume.

Outside of the odd critic, we have received a lot of questions about why we choose clean real food, and especially with respect to pork and bottom feeders, so I thought those two needed some specific explanation. This post will focus on pork.

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Tags: Bacon, Charcuterie, Culture, Food and drink, Garde manger, Hospitality/Recreation, Jeffrey Steingarten, Kosher food, Meat, Offal, Pig, Pork, Taboo food and drink, Unclean animals, USDA

Bible Study: The Power of a Praying Wife

Posted by Hallee on Mar 22, 2010 in Biblical womanhood, Blog Stuff, Christian Faith, holiness, Holy matrimony, inspiration, Marriage, Prayer

The feedback was all considered and our first Bible study will be on the The Power of a Praying Wife!

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Tags: Bestselling author, Human behavior, Human Interest, Prayer, Religion, Spirituality, Stormie Omartian

Feed My Lambs, Tend My Sheep

Posted by Gregg on Mar 21, 2010 in apologetics, biblical manhood, Christian Faith, Creation, Family, holiness, Holy matrimony, inspiration, Life, Love, Parenting, Prayer

For more than a week, the same message kept coming to me. It arrived by four very different avenues and has echoed in my prayer life and in my heart. It is the familiar passage in the 21st chapter of the Gospel of John, verses 15 through 18, in which the resurrected Savior asks Simon Peter three times, paraphrasing, “Do you love Me?” Each time, Peter answers, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.”

This week, I heard Jesus asking me over and over, “Gregg, do you love me?”

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Tags: Bridal theology, Christ, Christian mythology, Christianity, Himself, Human Interest, I love You, Jesus, Messianism, Prophets, Religion, Religion/Belief, Simon Peter, The Golden Speech

Ash Wednesday & Lenten

Posted by Hallee on Feb 17, 2010 in Christian Faith, fellowship, holiness, Prayer

Today is Ash Wednesday and the first day of Lent, both of which mark the beginning of the observance of the Easter Season. Ash Wednesday comes from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful as a sign of repentance. Traditionally, the ashes used are gathered after the Palm Crosses from the previous year’s Palm Sunday are burned and mixed with oil. In the Roman Catholic Church, Ash Wednesday is observed by fasting, abstinence from meat, and repentance. It is a day for contemplating one’s transgressions. Ash Wednesday is also the first day of Lent.

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Tags: Ash Wednesday, Catholic liturgy, Christianity, Easter, Fasting, Holy Week, Human behavior, Lent, Liturgical calendar, Palm Sunday, Religion, Religion/Belief, Wednesday

My Testimony

Posted by Hallee on Jan 28, 2010 in biblical manhood, Biblical womanhood, Christian Faith, holiness, inspiration, Prayer

I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior at the ripe old age of 5. Some of you reading this may think that 5 is too young, but I knew the Truth, could answer all of the questions posed to me by my parents and my pastor, and so they determined that I would be allowed to make a public profession of faith, followed by a water baptism. I was so small that my feet flew up out of the water when the pastor dunked me. I’d love to say that my journey ended there. I’d love to say that I’ve been the epitome of the perfect Christian girl and that I lived every day in the subsequent 32 years for God. However, that’s not my story.

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Tags: Baptism, Christianity, Conversion to Christianity, Jesus, Religion, Religion/Belief, Thomas Aquinas and the Sacraments

Wintertime Worship

Posted by Hallee on Dec 22, 2009 in Christian Faith, Family, holiness, inspiration

Sadly, our culture has shifted its focus to the dazzling lights and away from a dazzling Savior. Commercialism has swallowed whatever Christmas used to be before it was this. Battles are fought over the very name of the holiday, and Santa Claus is embraced more freely than the infant Jesus.1 Santa is an icon in modern culture, and his image is used to sell everything from soda to sports cars. How is a Christian to view Santa in light of the true meaning of Christmas?

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Tags: Advertising characters, Christ, Christian folklore, Christmas, Christmas music, Jesus, Religion/Belief, Santa Claus, The Santa Clause

A Christian Response to Vampire Obsession

Posted by Hallee on Nov 21, 2009 in Christian Faith, holiness

Gregg sent me this article by Hannah Goodwyn of CBN yesterday and it made perfect sense to me. I thought I would pass it on.

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Tags: CBN.com, Christian Faith, Daybreakers, Emmy, Entertainment/Culture, Ethan Hawke, Fantasy novels, Garden of Eden, Golden Globe, Hannah Goodwyn, Horror novels, Kristen Stewart, Media phenomenon, New Moon, Nina Parker, Occultism, Religion/Belief, Robert Pattinson, Romance novels, Stephenie Meyer, Taylor Lautner, Teen films, Tracey Bateman, True Blood, Twilight, Twilight series, Undead, Vampire, Vampires, Werewolves, Willem Dafoe

A Different Kind of Housecleaning

Posted by Hallee on Sep 25, 2009 in biblical manhood, Biblical womanhood, Christian Faith, holiness, Parenting, Sex

In the course of the last year, we’ve been working on giving it ALL to God, to make our entire lives – as individuals, as a married couple, and as a family – over to God and over to what He would have us do for Him, so that whatever we do will be used to glorify Him.

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Tags: Biblical manhood, Biblical womanhood, Cable, Christian Faith, Conversations, Digital television, Digital video recorders, DVD, Family, Favorite site, For Love of the Game, Home network, Parenting, Raising boys, Raising girls, Religion and sexuality, Satellite service, Sex, TiVo, Video

Giving God the Effort

Posted by Hallee on Sep 13, 2009 in Biblical womanhood, Christian Faith, holiness, Prayer

I believe God loves the effort of more for Him. I think He wants us to make worship for Him special, remarkable, beautiful, ceremonial. If we can do that without becoming legalistic, if we keep the focus on how we’re worshiping the Alpha and Omega, our Savior, Messiah, Redeemer, and friend, then the effort ought to be nothing but pleasing to God.