Gleaning Life for God’s Purpose
What character traits and life values drew your husband and you together, and how do they affect your life purpose since you have come to Christ? He invited me to a picnic...
Giving Grace
My husband treats me like I have no sense, and often disrespects me in front of others. This angers me, undermines my thoughts and respect for him...
Gracious Gift of Faithfulness
I attend church and Bible study, and have accepted Christ as my Savior. However, I feel like I am missing what God really wants me to know about the fruit of faithfulness...
Gentleness of Grace
Is it important to God that Christians display gentleness in their actions with others? At first you may think this is a silly question. But, the reality is...
GRACE – A Wise Woman
I am very interested in building a godly home, and I don’t want to turn my husband off to God by being religious. Tell me how to be wise by Gently Radiating A Christ-like Example...
A Difficult Question – A Gracious Answer
During a time when I thought our many years of marriage was over, I looked everywhere (especially my friends who read the Bible) for advice. Not all the advice I received was meant...
10 Ways to Become a Channel of God’s Compassion
As children of God, we have every tool we need to mend broken hearts and lives. So instead of isolating ourselves in a self- made cocoon of protection, we need to find out what those...
Second Marriage – First Impressions
Who came up with the phrase, “blended family?” According to Merriam-Webster, “blend” means to “combine into an integrative whole” and “to produce a harmonious effect.”...
Facebook is Good But Face to Face is Really Better
find myself in a familiar situation, yet again. Recuperating from surgery, relying on other people to help feed my family, get my kids to school, clean my house...
Choosing to Embrace Suffering
Mother’s Day, 1994. My life forever changed. But to understand the dramatic shift, you need to know a little more about me. I was raised in the church. I have had the same pastor since I was...
A Love Affair with Jesus
Jesus calls us to come to Him with our weariness and burden, to take His yoke on our shoulders and He will give us rest...
Sowing Seeds of Mercy in the Hearts of Our Children
Sometime during the summer of 2007 I realized that God was calling our family to missions. My husband and I began to talk and pray about a time in the distant future when our children...
Revere-ware: Teaching Your Child Respect for Older People
The dictionary defines ware as having skills or talents offered as a service or a commodity, prudent. How practical God’s Word is when He not only tells us to respect and revere elderly...
Leading Your Daughter to True Love (or to her First Love)
Working in a public high school allows me a front row seat to the moral decline of our modern generation. It has been said that character is how a person behaves when nobody’s looking...
Eye on Innocence
Miley Cyrus, Bratz, makeup for children, sensual clothing lines for children, our culture knows little about protecting the innocence of children...
Can I Come Along
re you a list maker? Do you, like me, love the feeling of crossing off the jobs you’ve completed? Often we compartmentalize the things that need to be handled in a day...
Mercy Friendships by Osmosis
Messy family environments produce relationally crippled children. Are you one of those grown up crippled children who carries a bucket load of guilt every time you hear the pastor...
Because a Princess Can Do Whatever She Wants
When asking little girls what they want to be when they grow up, I seldom get a response like, “I want to be a maid or a prison guard” or even, ”I just want to be single…” Most of their replies...
2 Times 2=????
I love being a mother. I have been one now for 36 years. From that first moment of touching our precious premature son with my fingertips, I have taken the responsibility very seriously...