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Sugar Twists Review & Giveaway

October 10, 2015 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

Have you heard of Sugar Twists?

Sugar Twists put an end to the hassle and headaches caused by elastic, fabric hairbands. No dents or damage, slipping or snapping, and NO tearing or tugging! Sound too good to be true? Well it’s not!

I’ve been using Sugar Twists in my hair for about 2 weeks now. I love them! I have to wear my hair up out of my way in a pony tail while I am working, or it drives me insane. Whenever I go out anywhere, I always pull the hair elastic out, as I prefer to wear my hair done when out. Which means my hair would always have the dreaded hump in the back. Enough that my teenage daughter will always tell me I should put my hair back up. lol

Now, thanks to Milk and Sass’ Sugar Twists, I can have my hair just the way I want it. With no hair hump to embarrass my teenage daughter!

I also had my other daughter, who has long, thick hair try the Sugar Twists. She said the Sugar Twists held her hair in a pony tail very well. I wish I had had Sugar Twists when my three girls were little. They would have made our lives, and hairdo’s so much easier!

Sugar Twist are only $7.95, and each box has 6 bands Available in a rainbow of colors, from neutral to neon, Sugar Twists are a must-have for active moms and children alike.

Sugar Twists Review & Giveaway

Sugar Twists are available in six color combinations: Caramel Toffee, Chocolate Mocha, Neon Candy, Pink Candy, Pink Marshmallow, Glitter Candy, and Cotton Candy. All those color choices mean there is a color perfect for everyone, and for every occasion.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Milk and Sass just launched a special pink package called “Candy for a Cause,” where a portion of proceeds will be donated toward the cause. Additionally, we’re having a social media campaign and for every person who uploads/shares a photo with the hashtag #CandyForACause, the brand is donating $1 per photo to Susan G. Komen You can check out the BCA package at: bit.ly/CandyForACause

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Finding Noah

October 5, 2015 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

Man has been searching for the final resting place of Noah‘s Ark for over 2,000 years. There have been many attempts, but few have been able to fully explore the one place specifically noted in the Bible: Mount Ararat.

In Finding Noah, you will travel to Mount Ararat which is located in Eastern Turkey. Agri Dagh or “The Painful Mountain” is the tallest mountain in the region and lies in the very center of a centuries old, geo-politically unstable hot spot. With constant threats of deadly rock slides, hidden crevasses, and glacial ice falls, the Kurdish Rebel held mountain poses great risk to any explorer, let alone those performing a thorough scientific investigation.

Finding Noah begins with the Biblical and world history of Noah’s Ark. The history includes mentions of Noah’s Ark in other religions and cultures, not just Christian. My husband and I both learned a few new things while watching Finding Noah. The history covered is fascinating.

Join director/producer Brent Baum and the Finding Noah film crew as they follow an expedition of intrepid explorers on a perilous trek up to Mt. Ararat’s desolate summit. Using state of the art technology and real-time satellite imagery, this team of archeologists, scientists and professional mountaineers will begin a grid work of exploration unlike any before, hoping to finally resolve the age-old question: did Noah and his Ark actually exist?

I watched Finding Noah with my husband, our 16 year old daughter, and our 15 year old son. Our 29 year old son came in part way through. We all found how they went about their scientific tests very interesting. While documentaries tend to be viewed as boring, there is nothing boring about Finding Noah. It held the interest of all of us. We all enjoyed watching Finding Noah.

Shot in never-before filmed locations in the harshest of conditions, this unprecedented feature-length documentary shows just how far men are willing to go to discover the truth. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Gary Sinise, Finding Noah is more than a quest for answers, it is a testament of the human spirit, where belief and the need for exploration transcend risk and limitation.

Finding Noah is in theaters for ONE NIGHT ONLY – October 8!

You will NOT want to miss this new documentary! Finding Noah has something for everyone – the Bible, history, science, adventure, and the most amazing views!

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Can’t Leave Alone Bars Recipe & Gather Around the Amish Table Cookbook Review

September 17, 2015 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

I have a great cookie bar recipe to share. Doing a cookbook review is mighty tasty work! It’s very sweet, so you only need a small piece. I think this will be great to take to potluck dinners. It will be easy to keep all the ingredients in the pantry to make these bars any time. Well, except for the eggs. Keep those in the fridge. lol

I found this recipe in the Gather around the Amish Table cookbook. Read below for more information about this new cookbook.

Can't Leave Alone Bars Recipe

Can’t Leave Alone Bars

1 (16 ounce ) white cake mix

2 eggs

1/3 cup oil

1/4 cup butter

1 cup chocolate chips

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

Mix together cake mix, eggs, and oil. Reserve 3/4 cup crumbs. Put remaining crumbs into 9 x 13 inch pan. Melt butter, chocolate chips, and sweetened condensed milk together until just combined. Pour on top of crumb crust in pan. Top with remaining crumb mixture by spoonfuls. Bake at 300* for 20-30 minutes.

My notes: My mixture wasn’t a crumb mixture. It was more the texture of cookie dough. The sweetened condensed milk and chocolate chips make a kind of fudge sitting on top of the cookie. Yum! This recipe lends itself well to some creativity. Use different flavored cake mixes and different flavored chocolate chips, or peanut butter chips, etc.

Keep reading to get a great lasagna recipe and to see how you can win a copy of Gather around the Amish Table!

I have loved reading this cookbook! It compiles favorite family recipes from Amish and Mennonite kitchens. the recipe contributors also share stories about their recipes and their families.

You will find some recipes to use whether you cook everything from scratch or use some prepackaged foods like the cake mix in the recipe above. I have found quite a few recipes that I want to try.

Incorporate Amish cooking traditions this fall in your kitchen with Lucy Leid’s Gather Around the Amish Table. Straight from Amish kitchens to yours, this cookbook offers favorite family recipes and charming stories from Amish and Mennonite cooks. Gather your family around the table to sample the nourishing fare and trademark charm of the plain people. In the words of one cookbook contributor: “Bake someone happy!”

Get your fall baking underway with an Amish baking basket giveaway from Lucy and MennoMedia!

One grand prize winner will receive:

A copy of Gather Around the Amish Table
An Amish baking basket full of goodies

Enter today by clicking the icon below. But hurry, the giveaway ends on September 29th. The winner will be announced September 30th on the Litfuse blog.

Israel’s Mission

September 16, 2015 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

We all have a God given mission. What is your mission?

I recently received Israel’s Mission DVD and the book Israel’s Mission Discovery Guide to review.

Join renowned teacher and historian Ray Vander Laan as he guides you through the lands of the Bible. In each lesson, Vander Laan illuminates the historical, geographical, and cultural context of the sacred Scriptures. Filmed on location in the Middle East and elsewhere, the That the World May Know ® film series will transform your understanding of God and challenge you to be a true follower of Jesus.

The Israel’s Mission DVD features 5 video lessons that are each just over 30 minutes long. These are designed to watch as part of a group, or individually. The Israel’s Mission Discovery Guide has a lesson that corresponds to each video lesson to be completed after watching the video. There are then 5 daily readings with questions to do before you watch the next video. I liked Ray Vander Laan’s teaching styled in the video lessons.

One of my favorite lessons was when he was explaining the tassels on the prayer shawl in Israel at Sinai: The First Great Commission, video lesson number two. I have studied some about the prayer shawl in the past, so I like how he taught about the tassels and the gentile.

Filmed on location at these biblically significant sites in Israel and Jordan:

-Back to the Father’s House – Negev Desert

-Show Them the Way – Timnah

-Prodigal Sons and Daughters – Qatzrin

-Return from the Far Off Country – Jerash

-Welcome Home – Qatzrin

Israel’s Mission is a Bible study that will help you see and understand what God says in the Bible about being a Priest. You will also be able to see how to translate that to the world we live in today.

God gave the assignment to His people thousands of years ago: to bring “lost sheep” back into the love and safety of His kingdom. He said to become a “Kingdom of Priests,” and put God on display to show the world what He is like. It’s still our task today. In this thirteenth volume of the That the World May Know ® film series, you’ll glimpse the urgency and rewards of welcoming the strangers and prodigals the Lord longs to embrace. Discover the mission that can give your life – and the lives of those around you – greater meaning than you ever imagined.

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Designed for use with That the World May Know: Israel’s Mission Discovery Guide.

Our task as Christians is to bring “lost sheep” back into the love and safety of His kingdom. How are you doing at welcoming the strangers and prodigals the Lord longs to embrace? Learn how to work on your task with Ray Vander Laan’s Israel’s Mission, volume thirteen in the That the World May Know® DVD series. Discover the mission that can give your life—and the lives of those around you—greater meaning than you ever imagined. Filmed on location in the Middle East and elsewhere, the series will transform your understanding of God and challenge you to be a true follower of Jesus.

Celebrate the release of Israel’s Mission by entering to win the entire That the World May Know® series—perfect for working through with your family, Bible study, or Sunday school class!

One grand prize winner will receive:

All 13 DVDs in the That the World May Know® series

Enter today by clicking the icon below. But hurry, the giveaway ends on September 18th. Winner will be announced September 21st on the Litfuse blog.

Nichole Nordeman The Unmaking CD Review & Giveaway

September 6, 2015 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

I recently received Nichole Nordeman’s latest CD, The Unmaking, to review. Nichole Nordeman is a recording artist and songwriter for Sparrow/EMI CMG. She has had numerous number-one and top ten singles and cumulative CD sales of over one million. Nichole is a two-time Gospel Music Association winner for Female Vocalist of the Year. She has also won a total of nine Dove Awards, including the best selling album, Music Inspired by The Story. Nichole Nordeman’s best known songs include Holy, Legacy, Brave, This Mystery, Why, and What If.

Now Nichole is back with her newest CD, The Unmaking. There are 6 new songs on this CD.

The Unmaking

Not to Us

Name

Love Your More

Something out of Me

Slow Down.

I listened to this CD several times while driving with my family. I listened with my husband, two teenagers, a couple of 20 year olds, and even my 79 year old mother at different times. Everyone enjoyed listening to the songs. There is something for everyone on this CD. Some songs are slower, some faster, and some a mix of both. This is a great CD for the whole family.

I really like this quote from Nichole Nordeman:

Before things in our lives can be resurrected and given new life, certain things must die. Before beauty blooms in spring, roots must do the hard work under the hard frozen soil of winter. Before you renovate and re-build, you tear down the parts of the structure that are weak or damaged or dangerous. Before we make, we must unmake.

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Until My Name Is Known Book Review

August 28, 2015 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

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Until My Name is Known by Sonya Contreras is book one in the Tell of My Kingdom’s Glory series. Until My Name is Known tells the story of the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt. The book opens with Moses returning home and telling his wife Zipporah that God spoke to him at the burning bush.

Until My Name Is Known

The Exodus of the Jews from Egypt is a love story between God and His people. God woos His people to Himself as He prepares them to leave. Before leaving, God must fight Pharaoh for possession of His people. See how God changes all people: some for the better, others not. None stay the same. How will He change you? Can you trust a God Who destroyed a nation before your eyes? Would you want Him as your Friend?

See God free His people from Egypt’s bonds before a watching world. Trace His Finger in the lives He touches. The time: 2450 BC. The Place: Old Kingdom of Egypt where Pharaoh is god. His people worship him. Israel’s God arrives. He challenges Pharaoh. His power touches all people. They must change. Some do not concede. They suffer. Others yield. They find freedom.

Until My Name Is Known brings all to see the one true God. Read it to see Him. Today’s historians and archaeologists puzzle over the fall of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, But the world at that time heard of God. The world knew that He is the Lord. His Name was proclaimed in all the earth.

I like that Sonya Contreras uses the Bible, archaeological records, and historical records in the writing of this book. Because of the author using these records, you will see different names and places than in other books set in this same time period. In Until My Name is Known you will see what life, was possibly, really like for the Israelites. You’ll see, and understand a little better, what is was like to live through the 10 plagues.

The book ends after Moses and the Israelites cross the Red Sea. They watch as Pharaoh and his army are overcome with the waters of the Red Sea moving back into place. The really couldn’t believe their eyes. Was Pharaoh really defeated? Were they really free?

Once they realize that they really are free, they sing a song of praise to the God that delivered them from Pharaoh’s hand.

“The Lord is my strength and my song:

He has become my salvation.

He is my God… And I will exalt Him…”

You can read chapter 1 of Until My Name is Known on the authors website.

In the back of the book are the author’s remarks, a glossary, a bibliography, and more. I love when books contain this extra information for the reader.

Until My Name Is Known is not just a retelling of the same story that we all know. Until My Name is Known is a fresh telling with new archaeological and historical information. I really liked reading Until My Name is Known. If you like to read Christian historical books, you will like Until My Name is Known.

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7 Family Ministry Essentials

July 12, 2015 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

I recently received 7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children’s and Student Ministries (David C. Cook, June 2015) to review. With decades of ministry experience, Michelle Anthony and Megan Marshman capture the guiding essentials of life-changing family ministry in this new book for children ministry and student leaders.

These seven essentials for children and student leaders emphasize:

The seven essential points covered in the are.

1. Empowering families to take spiritual leadership in the home

2. Forming lifetime faith that transcends childhood beliefs

3. Teaching Scripture as the ultimate authority of truth

4. Understanding the role of the Holy Spirit to teach and transform

5. Engaging every generation in the gospel of God’s redemptive story

6. Making God central in every biblical narrative and daily living

7. Participating in community with like-minded ministry leaders

7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children’s and Student Ministries

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7 Family Ministry Essentials will equip you with practical steps, inspirational stories, and a biblical foundation you need to be an effective leader.

Here’s a little bit about the authors of 7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children’s and Student Ministries.

DR. Michelle Anthony is the vice president and publisher of learning resources at David C Cook and a popular speaker in the area of family ministry. She is the author of Spiritual Parenting, The Big God Story, and Becoming a Spiritually Healthy Family. Michelle has graduate degrees in Christian education, Bible and theology as well as over twenty-five years of family ministry experience. Michelle and her husband, Michael are the parents of two adult children and live in Colorado.

Megan Marshman is the director of student resources and production for David C Cook and has led and challenged thousands of students in their faith at Hume Lake Christian Camps. With a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Azusa Pacific University, Megan speaks nationally at churches, conferences, and university chapels. She and her husband, Randy, live in Long Beach, California.

7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children’s and Student Ministries will change the way you work with, and listen to the children and youth you work with. I like the the book gives ways to work with the parents of the children you work with. Even if the parents don’t go to church themselves.

There are Ministry Assessment sections at the end of each chapter. Each one has three sections: Listen, So What? and Now What? to help you see where you are in your ministry, and what you need to do moving forward.

While 7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children’s and Student Ministries is mainly for those in ministry, you will find many ideas and tips that you will be able to use in your home.

7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children’s and Student Ministries is now available for purchase.

See what others are saying about 7 Family Ministry Essentials: A Strategy for Culture Change in Children’s and Student Ministries.

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