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Holy Week Daily Tradition #5: from Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler

Posted on April 17, 2025 by treeoflifemama

It’s Day #5 of Holy Week, Maundy Thursday or Last Supper Thursday. (I didn’t post yesterday, Wednesday’s tradition, so go here to an old post from years ago for that). Today’s tradition for a Christ-centered Easter involves contemplation about the … Continue reading →

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Holy Week Daily Tradition #3 from Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler

Posted on April 15, 2025 by treeoflifemama

To continue the series of daily family traditions for Holy Week, today’s eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus come from Nicodemus and Joseph. Please watch the video above to hear Emily Freeman and David Butler share about making a … Continue reading →

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Holy Week Daily Tradition #2 from Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler

Posted on April 14, 2025 by treeoflifemama

Today is Day #2 of Holy Week, the week before Easter. Here’s a simple tradition you can do with your family that honors Simon of Cyrene, mentioned in Matthew 27:32, Mark 15:21 and Luke 23:26. Want to peek at the … Continue reading →

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Holy Week Day #1 Tradition for Palm Sunday from Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler

Posted on April 13, 2025 by treeoflifemama

With today being Palm Sunday, it’s the start of Holy Week! Here’s a simple tradition you can start today with your family to honor the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem onto a donkey. I love that it’s so simple … Continue reading →

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A Christ-Centered Family Christmas Tradition: Counting Down the Week Before With a Nativity Set

Posted on December 15, 2024 by treeoflifemama

Today I’m sharing both a picture book, that you can read alone or as part of a Christmas Picture Book Advent series, and a NEW-for-me set of family traditions I’m doing this year. Both are based on this book for … Continue reading →

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DIY Tot-friendly Christmas Advent Candle Set

Posted on December 8, 2023 by treeoflifemama

I’m super excited to share with you this idea from my married daughter. She came up with the above Christmas Advent Candle Set that is safe to use around little children. It’s a wonderful alternative for the Immanuel Wreath that … Continue reading →

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Amazing Insights from the Story of Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors

Posted on March 14, 2022 by treeoflifemama

Wow! I absolutely loved studying the story of Joseph in Genesis 37-41 this past week, featured in the Come, Follow Me study guide. I also had fun finding clips of the story put in musical form featuring Donny Osmond. Have … Continue reading →

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Countdown to Easter Daily Traditions from Emily Belle Freeman

Posted on March 25, 2021 by treeoflifemama

I’ve decided to compile the wonderful Christ-centered Easter traditions from Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler all in one post. In years past I’ve blogged about each one separately with the videos. David and Emily have easy, meaningful traditions to … Continue reading →

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Doctrine and Covenants Come Follow Me 12-13 and Joseph Smith History 1:65-75

Posted on February 9, 2021 by treeoflifemama

Here are some videos I’ve enjoyed for this week’s lesson for Come, Follow Me. These resources increase my faith in Jesus Christ and his latter-day prophet Joseph Smith. In the video above and below Rod Meldrum has a guest, Hannah, … Continue reading →

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“The Spirit of the Lord Did Not Fail Him”

Posted on May 30, 2020 by treeoflifemama

I just love this week’s episode of Don’t Miss This! Actually, I love them all. There’s never been one I haven’t loved. Emily Freeman pointed out something I have missed. It’s the mention that “the Spirit did not fail” Alma. … Continue reading →

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