“Lord, teach us to pray.” (Luke 11:1) My latest passion project is finally here. Dear Heavenly Father: A Guide to Prayer and Praying with Our Children is now available for FREE to all of my newsletter subscribers! Prayer is vital to building an abiding relationship with our Father God, so I’m thrilled to be able to offer you this valuable …
“Faith over fear.” I’ve seen this phrase everywhere lately—on blogs and social media posts, on artwork and t-shirts, in devotionals. It’s simple but deep … and much easier said than done. Recently, I’ve been wrestling with feelings of being woefully unqualified, with inadequacy and self-doubt. Does anyone else feel like they’re totally winging it? Maybe it’s about life in general …
Nolan (my younger son) and I were in car line waiting to pick up his brother from kindergarten, and he asked more than once, “Mom, why are we stopped? … Is Owen done with school yet? … Can I unbuckle? I’m not having fun in this line.” At least he’s honest. And then I thought about the many times I’ve …
*Rejoice Always: Part 1 can be found HERE and explains much of what you’ll read below. It’s worth a quick read, friends! “If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. When I thought, ‘My foot slips,’ your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. When the cares of my …
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” John 13:34 ESV On this dreary Friday, having love for one another was met with some fairly common obstacles. I woke up with a migraine in progress, and my boys were less than enthusiastic to …
Friends, I’m finding that the older I get, the more I appreciate direct, honest, constructive, practical wisdom from loved ones and God Himself. I’m drawn in by the straightforwardness of these two verses and the entire chapter of Proverbs 3, how they aren’t sugar-coated. Scripture tells us plainly here that, if we want to know God’s will for our lives, …
Just before this verse in Deuteronomy 31, Moses had been preparing the Israelites for the inevitable day that a new leader (Joshua) would take over for him. The Lord forbade Moses from crossing over the Jordan River into Canaan, into the Promised Land, because of his past willful disobedience. So, Moses himself would not be with the people of Israel …
True story … “And the angel answered [Mary], ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God. And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her …
What does it mean to “Be still, and know…”? We in the Church say it often and have it printed on t-shirts and coffee mugs or hung on our walls at home. It’s so familiar that I’ve never really stopped and considered at length what God was saying here. The greater context of Psalm 46 gives us some clues: “God …
“Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything [every circumstance and situation] by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your [specific] requests known to God.” PHILIPPIANS 4:6 (AMP) I’m the worst when it comes to letting worry creep in and continually have to remind myself to “let go and let God,” to pray about everything. …
