What Brings Joy to Your Heart?
When do you feel joy? What does it feel like? Rick Warren defines joy: Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be alright, and the determined choice to...
How I Embraced Change with Truth and Love
Are you sending kids off to college or even school? Me too. Is your schedule changing? Adjusting to a new job or even a new role in your work? Me too. Are you handling these things with grace and love? Yeah, me neither. The funny thing is I know God is right in...
Review by Rayna: Audacious
Audacious is Beth Moore's life mission. It is a passionate call to love the Lord as He asks us to and as He requires us to. Beth defines audacious as: intrepidly daring, adventurous, bold, marked by originality and verve. At times to be honest even this definition...
The Loving Arms of God
The Loving Arms of God I started my week with some sad news. One of my best friends from college, Tammy, lost her dad Sunday night. He passed away after suffering from the horrifying disease, Alzheimer's. I don't think it had been 2 full years since Tammy...
Review by Rayna: When God Doesn’t Fix It
Review by Rayna: When God Doesn’t Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can’t Live Without Most of us know Laura Story from her beautiful songs. What I love most about her songs is the vulnerability of the lyrics and her way of sharing truth, it...
3 Ways to Help Your Parents as They Age
Aging parents are a part of life, after all we all get older. The difficult thing about getting older is that things seem to start wearing out. All of us will reach a point where we can’t do what we used to, even to the point where we cannot take care of...
Review by Rayna: Every Bitter Thing is Sweet
Sara is an eloquent wordsmith who invites you into her life and journey of faith. She lays her heart out for us to see and helps us to be willing to look at things in our own heart to find the truth of God and His love. I loved how she so openly shared the growth and...
I held my children in my womb but never in my arms….
My entire life like most little girls I have always wanted to be a mommy. I never imagined I would be a mom of 2 precious children I never got to hold, cuddle, kiss or even have to discipline. After my first marriage ended I was still hopeful I would remarry and have...
The Challenge of Matthew’s Calling
Over and over again Jesus drew attention to the fact that he was not accepted by the religious people of his time. Luke 5 paints a very vivid picture of two different groups of people interaction with him. Matthew was not the kind of guy you would expect to be called...
3 Things I Learned from Abigail’s Extravagant Obedience to God
As a young woman who wanted to love the Lord our God with all my heart, mind, soul and strength I struggled with the concept of submitting to my husband. Not because I rebelled against submission as some do but rather I struggled with checking my mind, convictions...
3 Roadblocks to a Meaningful Prayer Life
How content are you with your prayer life? Do you have the relationship with God that your heart desires? My guess would be that most of us feel that our prayer life could be better. We all know we need to pray and it seems that there are many common reasons why we...
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