Mark: Jill and I have been working hard on our No More Perfect Marriages book! Our deadline to turn in the book is July 15. It’s release date is Feb 1, 2017! We’re getting excited! Jill: Instead of our usual Marriage Monday today, we want you to hop...
Donned in those fashionable surgical clothes, a cap over my hair, all jewelry removed, and a pen in hand to make an X over my right breast so the doctor is assured to work on the correct side, I face the unknown once again. She found it during a surveillance...
Mark: Money. You gotta have it. You’ve gotta manage it. You’ve gotta talk about it. You’ve gotta learn how to make decisions about it together. Jill: We’ve certainly had plenty of financial frustration in our marriage and we know we’re not alone in that! Mark: Jill...
Today’s post is from Hearts at Home conference speaker Jerusha Clark. When I saw Jerusha’s new book title, I knew some of you needed this encouragement so I asked her to write something just for us! Do you have a teen or a pre-teen? Today’s words...
Jill: “Sex….I could go the rest of my life without it!” That was my sentiment early in our marriage. I was tired and just couldn’t muster the energy that lovemaking required. Mark: To say that Jill and I have been on opposite ends of the “desire” spectrum would be an...
Mother’s Day is upon us and if you haven’t thought about what you are going to do for mom, you may be looking for gift ideas. Jewelry, flowers, and cards are wonderful gifts for any mom to receive, but I’d like to suggest some non-traditional gifts that...
Someone once asked me what the best advice was that I received from my mom. I thought about the question a lot and I couldn’t think of specific advice I got from my mom. What I realized is that my mom offered “advice” simply by being someone worth following. My mom...
Mark: Last weekend Jill and I were spent from the National Hearts at Home conference in Peoria where nearly 4100 moms got their batteries recharged. Jill: It’s a big weekend for our family and the older we get the more it saps our energy. Needless to say there...
Dr. Kathy Koch, founder of Celebrate Kids, is a Hearts at Home favorite speaker. We try to have different speakers every year but Dr. Koch is a back-by-popular-demand speaker for sure! (We’re offering walk-in registration for the National conference this weekend...
Jill: Mark and I spent some time with friends recently. As the parents of several young adult children, they were struggling to make sense of their oldest child’s choices. Substance abuse and crime have landed their girl in prison for quite some time. Mark: Jill...
I first met Karen Ehman 23 years ago when she had registered for the first ever Hearts at Home conference and I was reviewing some of her registration info on the phone. I covered my questions with her and then suddenly she gasped. You see she was pregnant, due any...
Mark: January was a rough month for me. My construction business slowed down, winter closed in, and the darkness of depression returned. I felt like God was a million miles away. Jill: I knew Mark was struggling. We talked about it but I didn’t know how to help...
Iraq. Afghanistan. New York. Boston. Kenya. Paris. Brussels. All beautiful places in this world. All filled with innocent people whose lives were changed in an instant. The question posed by so many people is, “Where is God in all of this?” And too often they...
Dr. Todd Cartmell is a speaker at our 2016 Hearts at Home conferences. His newest book 8 Simple Tools For Raising Great Kids, is also one of our newest Hearts at Home resources! Every time I sit in on one of Dr. Cartmell’s workshops, I learn so much! I asked him...
A while ago I spoke at the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati. While there, I decided to sit in on one workshop that caught my eye. The speaker was Kathy Lee and it was on maximizing the preschool years. All three of my grandkids are preschoolers, and I’m...
