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Good morning, Five Minute Families! Merry Christmas to you all! It has long been a tradition in our family that our sweet Papa Jerry would open our holiday family meals with a devotion. The last couple of holidays, he has drawn in Jim and my brother-in-law, knowing that his earthly time would be short. Though… Continue Reading
Good morning, Five Minute Families! So, a very important question here less than two weeks before Christmas… does your family write out Christmas gift lists to share with each other? We’re not talking about the letters to Santa for the younger kids, though that is an element, but an actual Christmas list for each member… Continue Reading
Good morning, Five Minute Families! It is great to be with you today despite all the cancellations and revisions as of late. Do last-minute cancellations get under your skin? What about the sound of a scraping fork? Someone drumming on the table or humming the same tune on repeat? Ah, my friends, pet peeves. We’ve… Continue Reading
Good morning, Five Minute Families. We hope you had an excellent holiday weekend whether you had a simple, quiet one at home or were able to join with some friends or family to celebrate. Ours was going to be with a small amount of extended family but even that got cancelled last minute due to… Continue Reading
Good morning, Five Minute Families! Thank you for joining us here today. At Clear View Retreat, we always try to bring our focus back to the Lord and keep a clear view of His perspective and not our own. So, let’s talk about the fact that this is Thanksgiving week. I can’t believe Thanksgiving is… Continue Reading
Good morning, Five Minute Families! Thank you for joining us again this morning as we share ideas for godly family living in family-sized nuggets. Often, the noise of the holidays has already begun, and while this year many folks have unabashedly decorated for Christmas early, others of our loved ones are feeling overwhelmed because they… Continue Reading
TRANSCRIPT: Good morning, Five Minute Families. It is so good to be with you on this unseasonably warm day. We will soon be closing Clear View Retreat down for the winter, but we certainly hope that all the projects our volunteers have been diligently focusing on this year will allow this to be our last… Continue Reading
TRANSCRIPT: Good morning, Five Minute Families. Thank you for joining us this morning. At Clear View Retreat, we reach out to families in both the ‘norms’ and ‘storms’ of life. Much of what we discuss here comes from what we are living out at the moment, so we are going to continue to discuss how… Continue Reading
TRANSCRIPT: Good morning, Five Minute Families. I come to you this week with a hurting heart. We are facing the imminent death of someone we love. In fact, I am alone with you today while Kim is with our extended family. We know that many of you are facing the same thing – the impending… Continue Reading
TRANSCRIPT: Good morning, Five Minute Families. We at Clear View Retreat love to be able to share God’s truth here with you. We thank you for joining us and we hope you will comment on our blog or our facebook page. “Be blessed, our friends.” What does that mean? The top definition given on an… Continue Reading
TRANSCRIPT: Good morning, Five Minute Families! Leaves are falling, and rakes are out. Piles are being jumped into while jackets are on. Come fall into our family topic for this week: to compete or to complement. In 1 Corinthians 9:24 Paul uses a competition analogy to help us understand our striving for our eternal prize:… Continue Reading
