Author: Wolterman Homestead
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How We Celebrate a Gospel Centered Passover
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**Disclaimer, this blog was created in no place of judgement of others or their beliefs. It was written to share how our family celebrates Passover and the other things written in scripture. Our family has celebrated the biblical feast of Passover for the last several years. The longer we’ve celebrated…
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The Power of Our Words and Why What We Say Matters!
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Over the last year I’ve come to the realization that our words have power. You can research and see the different experimental studies that have been done on plants. An individual will verbally speak to two identical plants. The plant that has negative things spoken to it dies, while the…
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Homemade Pizza
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Our family makes homemade pizza often! It’s a highlight in our home that brings laughter and joy! There’s truly nothing quite like the mouth-watering aroma of a homemade pizza, fresh out of the oven. It has this uncanny ability to bring people together, bonding over their shared excitement to indulge…
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Bitterness..
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What is bitterness? The dictionary defines bitterness as disappointment at being treated unfairly, or resentment. I’m sure we can all think of an individual we’ve met in our lives who shares traits that exhibit bitterness. We ourselves have probably exhibited bitterness at some point in our own lives. Have you…
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Why Does it Feel like God has Abandoned Me..
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Some photos used in this blog post were created by and belong to Kevin Carden. He’s a fabulous artist and I highly recommend you check out his work. How many times do we go through the struggles of life and feel like God/Yahweh has abandoned us? When the things we…
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Dreaming of Spring & 2024 Garden Planning!
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We have several days of incoming freezing rain. The homestead, and its gardens are currently covered in several inches in snow! I sigh, thinking and dreaming of the gardening days that are coming! Oh, the days to plant seeds, having sweaty brows and watching beautiful things grow! These are the…
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Homemaking with Christ at the Center
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It can be hard, living in society today that promotes the thought that, “women need to have a career to be successful or women need to have a certain degree to be worth something.” I know not everyone feels that society says that, but I do. It makes it hard…
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Challah Bread | Sabbath Bread
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Challah bread is not just any bread. While our family isn’t Jewish or attempts to be, we have great respect for the culture and people. We’ve shared our faith beliefs before and we will typically fix a Challah loaf in preparation for our Shabbat dinner. This special and traditional Jewish…
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Becoming a Prayer Warrior
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Prayer, what is it? In scripture a couple words are mentioned. The Greek word for prayer is προσεύχομαι. It’s Strong’s G4336 – proseuchomai (pros-yoo’-khom-ahee). The Hebrew word is פָּלַל. It’s Strong’s H6419 – pālal (paw-lal’). Both words appear over 80 times each in scripture. Both words have the same or similar…
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When Life gets Rough | Put it in the Basket
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As we live and grow in this thing, we call life. We often experience joy, laughter and happiness but there are also times of hardship and difficulties. Seasons where we just want to give up. Where we just don’t want to carry on anymore. These are the seasons I like…