August 19, 2019
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Parenthood
Children are sponges. Research has proven it, and we know this by experience. We all have songs, chants, and facts we learned as children that are forever imprinted on our brains. As faulty as our memories become as we age, those imprints from youth remain. This is why catechism is such a powerful tool for our children’s instruction!...
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May 28, 2019
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Parenthood
In the little years of our parenting, my husband worked especially long hours. He would get up for some Bible time and exercise in the wee hours, and then he was out the door for work well before the kids woke up. In the evenings, he was often home just in time for a late a dinner. This meant the kids typically had about an hour of his time before they went to bed. I was g...
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May 6, 2019
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Parenthood
My children thrive in routine. For us, that means after a weekend full of irregularity, Mondays are always full of madness. It seems that on Mondays, more than any other day of the week, my children need constant correction. And this on a day when I’m trying to get my house back in order from the same busy weekend, can often make for some explosions as my kids interrupt ...
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February 1, 2019
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Parenthood
My husband makes fun of me because I hate instruction manuals. “Just let me figure it out; I learn better that way!” I insist. Besides the fact I may ruin (have ruined?) a project before I even begin, he tells me that I miss out on so much by not reading the manual and thus not understanding the maker’s intentions for and capabilities of a device....
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January 30, 2019
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Sermon Application
This weekend’s sermon really broke my heart. I’ll commend it to you here in its entirety. In briefest summary, we see from John 18:12-27 the account of the split screen drama of Peter’s unfaithfulness and three time denial of Jesus, all the while Jesus is standing as the faithful groom to his bride. If Peter, Jesus’ special disciple, can do this, how much worse am ...
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January 25, 2019
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Parenthood
When my husband and I first came to understand Reformed Theology, we were in what I call our “Little Years.” My oldest son was a year old, I was pregnant with our second, and a couple years later I would have our third. I’m grateful for God’s timing in this, because as my husband and I were growing in our theology and knowledge of God, our children were too little ...
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December 30, 2018
by Beverly Reininger
It is a strange time of year, Christmas. For some it awakens feelings of joy and comfort, for some it brings the nostalgia of days past, and for others it is a harsh reminder of loss that stirs fresh grief and pain in our hearts. Sometimes it is a mixture of them all. Either way, one can hardly enter this season without being forced to face some sort of depth of emotion an...
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December 13, 2018
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Gospel
Advent simply means “a coming.” The lights come out, the decorations appear, the music plays… This year my oldest said, “I just love the feeling that comes with this time of year.” And he is right. The world will try to steal the glory replacing the manger with images of Santa, replacing giving with consumerism, replacing O Holy Night with Jingle Bell Rock, but w...
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February 6, 2018
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Holiness and Happiness
“Why do you feel like a failure?” I heard him ask. “Because you are one.”
My flesh wanted to rise up to fight that statement, but my heart knew it was true. All that Jesus has to work with is failures....
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December 19, 2017
by Beverly Reininger
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Sermon Application
I wrote this blog post weeks ago but never posted. The day I wrote this, my morning devotional took me to John 20:11-18 where Jesus, after having been crucified, buried, and raised, appears to Mary Magdalene at the entrance of his empty tomb. As we are going through the book of John on Sundays, this weekend we came to this text. Although there is a lot in this passage, and...
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November 1, 2017
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Holiness and Happiness
Do you know that old hymn, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus?” It’s never been one of my favorites. Of course, Jesus is our friend. In humility the Lord of heaven and earth came to earth and laid down his life for us, and John 15:13 says, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” But this idea that Jesus is our friend, our...
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October 11, 2017
by Beverly Reininger
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Uncategorized
This morning I was reading New Morning Mercies by Paul Tripp. In a writing discussing the battle that rages for the rulership of our hearts, Tripp made a comment, “We still tend to credit God with faithfulness only when things in our lives seem to be working.” Ouch! I cannot think of an instance when I have given God credit for, nor encouraged someone with, God’s fai...
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August 10, 2017
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Sermon Application
These are the precious words from Scripture that we heard this morning, an incredible sermon about the Father’s electing love. It was a truth my soul so desperately needed to hear. ...
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April 7, 2017
by Beverly Reininger
Broken marriages, suicide, transgenderism, maniacal behavior, defeating jobs, drug abuse, infertility, lawsuits, depression… These are not just things “out there” in the world, but a handful of the weighty conversation topics I’ve had, this week alone, involving people in my life. In some sense it is shocking and overwhelming, and in another it comes as no surprise...
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March 15, 2017
by Beverly Reininger
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Category:
Gospel | Tags: gospel
With permission to start this blog, my mind immediately swelled with the dozens of topics I could write on, but at the core of them all is this: the gospel....
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