EP 166: The Beauty of Simple, Faithful Service: A Lesson from Acts 9
Inside: As we head into the holiday season, I’m reminded of Tabitha’s story in Acts 9 and her beautiful example of serving others with a heart full of love. We…
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Don’t Waste Your Summer
Inside: Every season is a precious gift from the Lord, including summer. So, how can we make the most of these summertime days and avoid wasting them? Here in Wisconsin,…
Cultivating a Heart for Missions in Your Family
*Update: This is an older post and as I’m re-sharing it we’re already signed up to head to the G3 Conference this September 30 – October 2, 2021, in Atlanta,…
When God’s Plans Interrupt Mine
Inside: Are we able to give thanks to the Lord in and through the difficult seasons of our lives? When God has other plans for our days? Is our first…
What Does it Look Like to Set Your Minds on Things Above?
This past weekend our church had an outreach at our state fair to hand out water bottles and gospel tracts. It reminded my heart how often it lacks focus on…
What is Spiritual Maturity?
As believers, we all desire to be spiritually mature in our walk with the Lord. We want to be more like Christ in our hearts, speech, thoughts, lives, and…
Serving the Lord in Our Mundane Moments
Our lives are lived in the mundane moments. It’s in the dishes and laundry and caring for our families where we find ourselves spending most of our days. There…
Looking Out for the Interests of Others
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to…
Simple Ways to Keep Christ the Focus this Christmas Season
I’m sharing a snippet below from a podcast about how we can keep our Christmas traditions simple and Christ-focused: “As the busy Christmas season is upon us we can find…
Preparing Our Families for Sunday Morning Worship
How many times does Sunday morning roll around and you find your heart in a state of chaos instead of calm to worship the Lord? How many Sunday’s do you…
Thanking God in the Negative
The message excerpt I’m sharing below is taken from a radio program that I believe every parent should listen to. It is by Ney Bailey and she is sharing a…
Do You Take Delight in Being a Keeper of Your Home?
“As Christian women, this is the attitude that should characterize our lives. We are to be women who love our homes. We are not to merely workers at home,…
9 Questions to Examine Your Heart
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is…
Building Loving Relationships in Your Church Family
Our lives as Christians in this fallen world are a battle (Ephesians 6:10-20). The devil doesn’t want to see our churches thrive with loving relationships that are filled with godliness,…
The Significance of Ministry at Home
“The challenge of ministry in our home is that we do not always feel very “spiritual” when we wash our dishes. It hardly feels significant to scrub our toilet. and…
Living in the Mundane
“There simply are not many grand moments of life, and we surely don’t live life in those moments. No, we live in the utterly mundane. We exist in the bathrooms,…
Caring for a Dying Parent
As I was pondering where to begin in sharing about our time this past year in caring for my husband’s sweet Mama in her final days, I realized my first…
Biblically Caring for Our Aging Parents
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Exodus 20:12 Honoring our parents is a…
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