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heating billMinnesota’s cold-weather rule is currently in effect, offering help to people facing difficulty paying their utility bills.   It protects you from having your service shut off through the winter months. But you’re required to work out regular payment plans with your utility.  Click here for more information.

doctorIf you’re curious about how the H1N1 is advancing or retreating in the country, click here for a map  the Center for Desease Control has put together that monitors how many people are seeking medical help.

Check out this powerful video of what it could be like when the rapture happens on earth.

scalpelSpiritual surgery is more painful than physical surgery. God doesn’t use an anesthetic; He doesn’t do His work while we are asleep. God can take any brokenhearted believer and make him or her a radiant, loving person. But when He performs such “heart operations,” His children are wide awake.

Erwin W. Lutzer

foods to keep4:30 PM and I can’t find any recipe that I have all the ingredients for.  What to do?  Click here for a great article with ideas of items that you can keep on hand…giving you an instant meal that is healthy too!  No more chicken nuggets 4 days a week.  Now you have options!

familyTVI was thinking today…what if our lives were visible to everyone through television.  They could see everything we were doing but the sound was turned completely off.  What would they learn about our priorities and our faith from what they saw if they couldn’t hear our words?  Hmmmmm.

Stanley Hauerwas said “Most of us professing Christians, from liberals to fundamentalists, remain practical atheists in most of our lives.”

appleorangeWhich is has more protein, fresh spinach or romaine lettuce?  How do oranges and apples compare?  Until now, you had to look up each item individually to make your comparisson.  And who has time for that?  Here’s a website where you can quickly compare two foods.  www.twofoods.com

stock pantry4:00 PM.  What’s for dinner?  Who knows?!   What can I make in a big hurry?  If your pantry is stocked well, you can pull a meal together in short order.  Click here for some great tips on socking your cupboards!

a_homeworkWeekIf you’re looking for a way to keep track of your child’s homework from week to week, so you can help them stay organized, here are a couple of forms that you can download and print.

organizer drawer.How do you keep everything organized from backpacks, to shoes, to permission slips?  It’s not easy, but here are a few ideas that might help!