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EP 111: Getting Things Done: A Walk Through Ephesians 5:15-16
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EP 111: Getting Things Done: A Walk Through Ephesians 5:15-16

ByMarci Ferrell

We want to get things done. We want our days to be productive. Deep down, we always want to get all those items on our to-do list checked off, which rarely happens. We may have days or seasons where we’re productive and on top of things, and there are other seasons where we feel like…

10 Books Every Christian Should Read
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10 Books Every Christian Should Read

ByMarci Ferrell

Christian book choices can be a bit overwhelming with all the options available to us. Whether you’re buying them online or in a Christian bookstore, you’d like to make wise decisions and spend your time reading books that are solid theologically. Related: Top Ten Book Recommendations Series I’m sharing ten books with you that have…

EP 101: Trusting God with the Impossible as Mothers
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EP 101: Trusting God with the Impossible as Mothers

ByMarci Ferrell

  There’s been a book that has been a comfort to me in my walk with the Lord as I parent a prodigal by Ruth Bell Graham called Prodigals and Those Who Love Them: Words of Encouragement For Those Who Wait. Waiting on a prodigal is hard, and this isn’t a how-to book but a…

Cultivating a Heart for Missions in Your Family
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Cultivating a Heart for Missions in Your Family

ByMarci Ferrell

  *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, Georgia and the theme is Christ Is Supreme Over All. If you’re able to attend it’s a conference I highly recommend it.  We are on…

EP 97: How a Timer Saves Me Time & Keeps Me Focused
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EP 97: How a Timer Saves Me Time & Keeps Me Focused

ByMarci Ferrell

Do you ever find yourself flitting from task to task and at the end of the day realizing you didn’t finish any of them? Do you have trouble staying focused and on task? A tool that has helped me immensely over the years to stay on tasks, whether it’s household chores, reading, social media, blog…

EP 96: My Top 5 Productivity Tips for Busy Homemakers
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EP 96: My Top 5 Productivity Tips for Busy Homemakers

ByMarci Ferrell

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 over the years and various seasons of my life. What I love most about them is that they are all free. You don’t need to…

EP 92: Blessed are the Merciful (Matthew 5:7 – Sermon on the Mount Series)
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EP 92: Blessed are the Merciful (Matthew 5:7 – Sermon on the Mount Series)

ByMarci Ferrell

Showing mercy to others is a sign we have been redeemed. And as the verse, Matthew 5:7 states: Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. If we are truly in Christ, we are then objects of His mercy, and we will then be merciful to others, and we will, in the end, receive…

Celebrating Advent: Looking Back and Looking Forward & A List of Resources for the Whole Family
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Celebrating Advent: Looking Back and Looking Forward & A List of Resources for the Whole Family

ByMarci Ferrell

Advent is the season leading up to Christmas and it begins with the four Sundays before December 25th. 1 Peter 1:10-12 gives a picture of what it means to look back during Advent: 10 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, 11 inquiring…

EP 86: Introduction to the Sermon on the Mount Series {Matthew 5:1-2}
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EP 86: Introduction to the Sermon on the Mount Series {Matthew 5:1-2}

ByMarci Ferrell

John Stott opened his book The Message of the Sermon on the Mount: Christian Counter-Culture with this sentence: “The Sermon on the Mount is probably the best-known part of the teaching of Jesus, though arguable it is the least understood, and certainly it is the least obeyed.” As believers, we know parts of this Sermon…

Newsletter Resources

ByMarci Ferrell

Resources from Monthly Newsletters  Here are the resources from the current monthly newsletter. This page is only accessible through the link from your email. It’s not open to the public but just to email subscribers.  If you’d like to see a link to all my book recommendations you can visit my Amazon Bookstore here Please…

EP 82: Encouraging Your Husband {Elisabeth Elliot’s 80/20 Rule}
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EP 82: Encouraging Your Husband {Elisabeth Elliot’s 80/20 Rule}

ByMarci Ferrell

  So many times as wives, we can focus more on what our husbands are doing wrong instead of focusing our hearts on what they are doing right. You can read the post below in (5 minutes) or listen in to the podcast (20 minutes) where I share more content.   Related Links: Romancing Your…

EP 81: Elisabeth Elliot on Hints for a Quiet Time
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EP 81: Elisabeth Elliot on Hints for a Quiet Time

ByMarci Ferrell

  As Christians, we all desire to grow more and more into the image of Jesus. We want to “keep killing sin”, we want to “love others as we love ourselves” and mostly we want to know and love Jesus more because all those other good things will follow if that is our first pursuit….

Do the Next Thing {A Reminder from Elisabeth Elliot}
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Do the Next Thing {A Reminder from Elisabeth Elliot}

ByMarci Ferrell

Inside: Do the Next Thing has been a favorite saying of mine from Elisabeth Elliot, and I thought we could use a little encouragement from her words today.  My heart can get too easily overwhelmed when my task list begins to look longer than the hours in my day. I’m sharing a favorite saying I…

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