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Mobility Aids: Tips on How to Broach the Topic with Parents & Older Relatives
Healthy Living As the Baby Boomer generation ages, there is an increasing trend in choosing to “Age in Place” rather than in a nursing home or assisted living facility. With this push toward an independent lifestyle comes a great adversity toward the mere suggestion of using a scooter or stairlift. In fact, merely mentioning that …
Who Is in Charge?
Encouraging Word Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, produced a pamphlet entitled, “4 Spiritual Laws.” It mentioned that in each of our lives there is both a throne and a cross, and they both will be occupied. For Christ followers, Jesus Christ should occupy the throne, since He is our Lord; and our …
Working Together to Help Others: Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School
Education Extra Helping others in the community and around the world is a vital part of the lives of the students and faculty at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School (OLS). Each school year, the entire school works in a variety of ways to live their Christian faith by reaching out to those in need. …
HGTV’s Chris & Peyton Lambton
A LOVE Story Founded on Faith & Family: Family legacy comes in many different forms for garden, landscape and outdoor remodel television personalities Chris and Peyton Lambton. It shows up in the prayer they recite with daughter Lyla every night before bed, the same blessing Chris’ late mother recited to him and his brothers when …
Audrey Bunny by Angie Smith
Best Books God must have an aversion to human uniformity. We come in different shapes, sizes, colors, and features. We speak different languages, have accents, eat different foods, and possess distinct artistic tastes. Even the way we practice and understand our faith is diverse, an aspect of religion which some find uncomfortable, but which I …
Angie Smith Headlines Samford Legacy League Scholarship Luncheon
City Scene Best-selling author, speaker and blogger, Angie Smith will be the featured speaker for Samford Legacy League’s 2018 Scholarship Luncheon on Thursday, February 15, 2018 in Vestavia. Angie is the wife of Todd Smith, lead singer for Christian inspirational band “Selah” and the mother of five daughters. She is the author of Seamless, I Will …
The Power in Living Out Your God Given Purpose
Bringing Out the Winner Mother Teresa was a woman of tremendous power, and not one ounce of that power came from her position. It was all about her character and personality. In 1984, Mother Teresa‘s order of nuns, the Missionaries of Charity, went to a convent in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Their goal was to build a …
Community Partners Help Spread Good News!
Laurie’s Blog February 2018 marks the 212th Issue of Birmingham Christian Family, magazine. A part of our mission has always been to provide the magazine every month, free of charge, at easily accessible locations throughout Birmingham. In 2000 that meant hard copies of the magazine at high traffic locations throughout the Birmingham metro. In 2018 …
