Are you feeling stressed and stretched in a season that is busy? Learn how you can live out a forward-paced faith during a season that is fast-paced. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10 NKJV Maybe it’s just me….
There is some amazing marriage advice, but what happens when good marriage advice isn’t good for your marriage? It’s time to dig deeper. When my husband and I were struggling through our marriage and sorting through the source of the hurt, most of the good marriage advice I’d come across on social media would have…
What would you say was the best thing I did for you? That’s the question I asked our son as he was leaving for college. His answer rather surprised me…. What would you say was the best thing I did for you? He didn’t reply. ….you know, as your mom? Soon to take off for…
We all go through a season when we need some hope. Perhaps some encouraging devotions that can bring refreshment to your soul can help? Of all the resource requests I get in my inbox, this question is the most frequently asked: What devotional would you recommend? What would be an encouraging resource for my daily…
David teaches us so much about worship and repentance. He actually offers some very practical, intentional steps we can take to become women after God’s own heart. ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do.’ Acts 13:22b Do you love a…
Husbands desire to be respected, but wives do also. If you are a husband, does your wife feel respected by your actions? Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. (I Peter 2:17) NKJV The general admonition to honor all people—to value and treat everyone with respect—is not a difficult concept to…
What can happen when we keep the possibilities of saying yes to God — about anything — open? What if He was our most important influence? Perhaps it’s because I was in the middle of my own heavy season, or then again, maybe it’s because I’ve long respected Tony Dungy and his uncompromising faith. Whichever…
Our own inexperience can actually lead us down a road toward our own growth. We just need to be willing to learn and trust. “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” Psalm 32:8 NKJV What if sometimes, it is better to not “know…
It can be easy to allow the enemy to entice us to grumble. But when Sunday comes, it can be a fresh, new restart for your entire week if you allow it to. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with…
Of all the virtues and lessons we can teach our children as they grow, there is one important parenting tool we have at our disposal. For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.James 2:26 I was in the pew on a recent Sunday morning, following…
When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? Psalm 56:3-4 NIV We were greeted by the cats in the yard as we walked toward her home. Once we pet the kitties we went into the…
“Look carefully how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of time, because the days are evil.“(Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV) “If you have never missed a plane, you are spending way too much of your life in airports.” That’s my friend Catherine’s counsel and, as someone who knows what it’s like…
Being too close to our own spiritual lives can mean we miss blind spots that need addressing. “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Psalms 119:18 (KJV) John Newton, the author of the famous hymn Amazing Grace, became the captain of a slave-trade ship a year after his…
So I guess I’ll begin with a confession. I thought it would be enough for our girls to simply grow up in a Christian family. I thought it would take care of everything. That they’d grow up secure and unafraid, having been raised in a home where they are loved so dearly. A home where…
When we are faced with a big challenge, we can either wallow in it or press on through it–even slowly. We do have a choice. “I suppose you have to help her dress each day.” My new friend said it more as a statement than a question. She was asking me about our daughter with…
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