Category: Guest Post

5 Gospel-Centered Podcasts For Little Hearts & Minds

9/29/2023

Over the last few years, I have become a big fan of podcasts, and I feel fortunate to have found several that I regularly look to as supplements for my spiritual walk and growth.

Biblically enriching podcasts are a wonderful blessing of our time. They allow us to connect with other believers, whom we may not otherwise ever meet on this side of eternity.

We can learn, be encouraged, and be challenged by the truths they share and the experiences through which God has grown them.

While they are by no means a replacement for the faithful teaching of a local church or our personal time in God’s Word, theologically sound podcasts are a wonderful addition to our pursuit of holiness.

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Be Not Afraid, Only Believe!

9/22/2023

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Don’t you love #reading through the #Gospels and watching how Jesus dealt with people? There's so much to learn from watching His interactions. He was #compassionate but called out sin when He saw it. He ministered to their needs, #healing the sick, but He also worked to reach their hearts. It's a fascinating study. In thinking on these interactions, I'm drawn to when #Jesus met a ruler in the #synagogue named Jairus (Mark 5:21-43). #BibleStudy #Bible #devotion #Scripture #healing #compassion

Don’t you just love reading through the Gospels and watching how Jesus dealt with people who came to Him? There is so much to learn from watching His interactions with people.

He was compassionate, but He called out sin when He saw it. He ministered to the obvious needs in healing the sick, but He also worked to reach the hearts of people even when they didn’t reveal their thoughts to Him.

It is a fascinating study for me.

In thinking about these interactions, I am drawn to one of my favorites, when Jesus met with a ruler in the synagogue named Jairus. Take a moment and read the account in Mark 5:21-43.

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4 Pillars of A Praying Mother

9/15/2023

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A thought began to creep into these quiet moments, whispering,

Rocking my youngest child late one evening, I replayed the day. One filled with activity, conversations, and a few tears. We are in a hard season of life, I kept reassuring myself. These stages change, and things will smooth out. No one can be all things to all people all the time.

Yet, I felt discouraged and worried. I had no idea how best to love my teenager with big feelings, nor did I feel confident connecting with my reserved ten-year-old. I worried I was reacting in anger rather than tenderly discipling toddler and preschool souls. As I moved back and forth in the rocker, my thoughts swayed back and forth between empty assurances that things would get better and condemning fears that I could mess everything and everyone up.

Over the next year, I became increasingly anxious as crises continued from my children, job struggles, loneliness, and discouragement.

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3 Important Truths About God We Should Cling To

8/25/2023

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Recently, my husband and I have been reading through the stories of the Bible with our daughter each night before her bedtime. Sharing these biblical accounts has not only been beneficial to her, as she is beginning to understand and connect the stories of the Bible, but it has also helped me to see them in a new light through the fresh eyes of my child. The last few weeks have found us chronicling Israel’s Exodus from Egypt and the years they wandered in the wilderness before finally entering the Promised Land. This period in the life of God’s chosen people is marked by a repeated pattern—one even our young daughter quickly picked up on.

God would deliver or provide for Israel in a miraculous/powerful way.
The people would be momentarily grateful for His deliverance and provision.
When the difficulty presented itself, the people would complain, leading to sin.

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Choosing Gratitude: Week 9

8/1/2023

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It's been good and helpful these last 8 weeks to focus on the subject of #gratitude. But today we must determine to move past the attitude of having seasons of #gratefulness to making gratitude a day-by-day, lifetime #habit. What does this look like? Is that even possible? How can we maintain this kind of attitude? Though gratitude is ultimately a work of #God in our hearts, it also involves effort on our part. There are things we can DO to grow in gratitude. #Biblestudy #amreading #goodreads

Hello, friend! Are you ready to begin your journey toward greater joy? Join us for our Summer 2023 Book Club-Style Bible Study. We're reading "Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy" by Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. This book challenges and equips us to live a life of gratitude.

What is gratitude? Gratitude is a choice. It is a decision to focus on the good things in our lives, even when things are difficult. When we choose gratitude, we are choosing to be happy and content. Why is gratitude important?

Gratitude has many benefits, including:

Increased happiness and well-being
Reduced stress and anxiety
Improved physical health
Stronger relationships
Increased creativity and productivity

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A Prayer for the Broken-Hearted

7/28/2023

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The pain, the void, and the uncertainty -- as there are questions for those left behind that remain unanswered. I’ve cried countless tears, not only to have lost a friend but for his family, who are as dear to me as my own. When #tragedy strikes and the unimaginable happens, it feels impossible to think, to #pray. The words just cannot come, and if they do, they don’t do justice to what we're feeling and experiencing. Praise the Lord that He understands us even when don’t understand ourselves.

This past week my husband and I received some soul-crushing news. A dear friend of ours had ended his own life. While we knew that he had wrestled over the years with seasons of depression, most people would never have guessed that he had any such struggle.

He was one of the kindest, most effervescent, and most selfless people I’ve known. He loved the Lord and his family. He faithfully served the Church. But away from watchful eyes and in the private spaces of his heart and mind, he struggled. He fought until the very end to try to overcome the darkness and depression, clinging to His faith and Scriptures such as Psalm 143.

To say that his family and friends are gutted, not only to have lost him but in such a way as this, is an understatement. There are no words. For the past days, even now, it is all I can think about.

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