Full confession: my youngest child is entering her senior year of high school this year, and I don’t feel old enough to be entering the empty nest season. Because she is the youngest, however, I have learned some things with my older children that have helped me prepare for the transition. Some of the …
Effective Prayer
One of my classes required me to read a book that is out of print, but well worth reading—“Effective Prayer” by J. Oswald Sanders. It has encouraged, convicted, challenged, and instructed me on the topic of prayer. Because of its influence, prayer was the subject of one of the classes I taught this week, which …
Free Resources for Your Spiritual Goals of 2025
As you plan for your spiritual goals of 2025, I wanted to gather all the resources I have created over the last few years and put them in one post. You can link these and print them for yourself or feel free to share them with others. As always, I pray they are a blessing …
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So the Next Generation May Know
There are so many ways to study God’s Word. We live in a blessed generation with a variety of options at our fingertips. There are apps for phones, free computer programs, and old-fashioned pen-and-paper methods. A quick computer search offers hundreds of companies that create Bible studies and journals. If you have not found a …
Christians and Politics: A Bible Study for Changing Times
If you have ever had a prodigal child, it can be excruciating to watch him speed one hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction toward a wreck you can see miles ahead. You may plead, warn, yell, even forcibly detain, but his heart is bent toward his way, and nothing will stop him. As …
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Promoting Pro-Abundant Life In The Church
If churches that say they are pro-life want to encourage women and those significant in their lives to choose life instead of an abortion, a pro-abundant life community within the church must be established. According to a 2017-2019 Center for Disease Control’s National Survey of Family Growth, even women attending church monthly kept appointments with …
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Intentionally Thinking on Jesus
Do your thoughts ever seem to get locked in the negative? Critical, anxious, painful thoughts that swirl over and over in your mind? It takes intentionality to redirect those thought patterns. I was listening to a podcast about a woman who lost her daughter as a teenager. She and her family knew the Lord, but …
Defining Expectations
Study #2 in the Biblical Counseling Series Defining Expectations A Biblical Counseling Series Early in our marriage, I found myself very frustrated with my husband’s inability to see the overflowing trash can. Growing up in my house, my stepdad always took out the trash. It never occurred to me that my husband would not relish …
New Year, Faithful God
2024! Can you believe how quickly this new year came? I admit that the older I get, the faster the years pass, especially now that most of my children are grown. As I sought the Lord for the spiritual theme for this year, the faithfulness of God came up time and again. Abraham’s encounter with …
Where Leads the Heart
Eight women from the Bible and the choices that shaped their future.
His Song in the Night 