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    Oh no! My broken blog software has blocked all of your comments … PLEASE try again! Double entries if you try TODAY!

    I’m SO sorry—I just learned that my blog software has been blocking all of your comments. Yeek! No wonder we’ve had even LESS comments than normal these days. Would you PRETTY PLEASE try one more time to Enter our Family’s Current WIN FREE STUFF GIVEAWAY by clicking through and leaving a comment on this post? I would be ever so grateful. If you enter today (Saturday, November 30, 2013)—OR if you try and let me know if you’ve been foiled again. (Grrrrr.) I’ll give you TWO entries to (hopefully) make up for the inconvenience that my broken software has caused you.   Thanks, friends! G’nite, Tara B. 

  • Child Protection / Abuse in the Church,  Momma Tara~Parenting

    Are you still closing your eyes to the real risk of child sexual abuse in your church?

    In one of my most-read previous blog posts, I tackled a topic that I consider to be one of the most important topics in the church today: child sexual abuse … Child Abuse in the Church: Justice Can Be Grace After reading a link from Challies this morning (The Top Five Reasons Your Church Could Land in Court), I am only that much more convinced that this topic is extremely important and yet, shockingly and naively ignored by most Christians and most church leaders. (Thankfully, not my church leaders and my church administrator. But I know they have to fight tooth and nail, at great personal cost of time and effort, to…

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    FREE Copy of “How People Change” by Paul Tripp and Tim Lane

          I can’t believe that Crossway is giving away Paul Tripp and Tim Lane’s (phenomenal!!) book, How People Change. But they are!   This book would be in my list of the top ten books that have changed my life. I strongly urge you to get it now.     

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  • Redeeming Church Conflicts

    Wow! Redeeming Church Conflicts is SUPER CHEAP on Amazon right now!

    I have no idea why Amazon is having this HUGE sale on my second book (Redeeming Church Conflicts), but they are: Redeeming Church Conflicts only $6.98 (with Amazon Prime!) and $3.99 Kindle This is MUCH cheaper than even I can buy it from my publisher as the author! If I had any extra cash right now, I’d stock up. Anyhoo … if you’ve even been in a group conflict and struggled to know what to do, I truly believe this book will help you. It is especially good at encouraging HOPE (when things feel hopeless!) because my coauthor, Dave Edling, is one of the most experienced Certified Christian Conciliators working in conflicted organizations and churches ever so he…

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