Lord, Help Me to Love Them: Learning to Love Difficult People Like Christ
Inside: Loving our enemies doesn’t mean they’ll change—but it does mean we will. A simple prayer: “Lord, help me to love them,” can be the start of a heart changed…
Prayer
Keeping a Right Heart in Busy Seasons
Inside: God’s peace is not just a future promise, but a present reality that we can experience when we trust Him and surrender our worries to Him. The Challenge of…
The Heart God Shapes Through Prayer
Inside: We don’t always get what we ask for in prayer—but in His grace, God gives us something better. This moving letter reminds us how He shapes our hearts through…
EP 156: Means of Grace to Grow in Godliness
Inside: God’s Word, prayer, and fellowship are gifts from the Lord. He uses these to graciously shape us into Christ’s image, strengthen our faith, and grow us in godliness. As…
Keep Pressing Forward in the Word & Prayer
Inside: As we spend time with the Lord and continue to bring ourselves before Him, He makes us more like Jesus. How many times have you started a project and…
Our Heavenly Father Knows What We Need
Inside: We have a God who always gives His children what is good because He knows exactly what we need. Some of us may have had some great Fathers. I…
EP 141: Ask, and It Will Be Given (Matthew 7:7-12 – Sermon on the Mount Series)
Inside: We’re to be persistent in prayer. We need it just as much as we need oxygen to breathe. It’s the lifeline to those of us in the Kingdom. We’re…
My Favorite Planners & Journals
Inside: A roundup of my favorite planners and journals for homemakers – perfect for staying organized in the New Year! We’re getting ready to turn the calendar, and if you’re…
EP 129: Fasting for the Glory of God (Matthew 6:16-18 – Sermon on the Mount Series)
Inside: Fasting is a way to remind us that everything we truly need is found in Christ and Him alone. Jesus fasted, and He expected that His followers would fast…
EP 127: The Proper Pattern for Prayer (Matthew 6:5-15 – Sermon on the Mount Series)
We begin our next section as we work through the Sermon on the Mount, warning us not to be like the hypocrites. Our reminder in this next section is still…
5 Benefits We Have in Christ – {Colossians 1:12-14}
Inside: When we become those people who understand what we have been forgiven of and the cost of that forgiveness. It is then that we will become thankful to the…
Questions to Examine Yourself to See if You are in the Faith (2 Corinthians 13:5)
We know that going in for a yearly physical, especially as we age is a good thing. It can catch early symptoms of a health issue before it becomes a…
The More I See of Jesus
Mary Forbes Winslow (1774–1854) was the wife of a British Army officer and the mother of 13 children, including the Victorian Baptist and Anglican minister Octavius Winslow, a contemporary of…
My Top 10 Books of 2021
Book recommendation posts are my favorites and I’m sharing some of my top reads from this past year. I didn’t seem to read as much as in past years but…
10 Great Books on Prayer
I had a friend recently ask me for a book recommendation on prayer, and as I was pondering which of my favorites to share with her, this idea to share…
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,…
EP 98: 4 Truths to Pray for One Another
I love reading Paul’s prison prayers (Ephesians 1:15-23, 3:14-21; Philippians 1:9-11, Colossians 1:9-12) because we see the heart of what the apostle desired for us. Amid this trial, Paul…
EP 96: My Top 5 Productivity Tips for Busy Homemakers
I’m sharing some of the simple tools that have helped me manage my time over my 34 years of being a wife, mother, and homemaker. I continue to tweak them…
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