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article | December 9, 2020

Last Christmas morning, I didn’t want to get out of bed. I was war weary. Exhausted. Sick of the “It’s not supposed to be this way” feeling. My family’s beloved traditions were waiting for me, but they couldn’t change the mess that …

article | October 29, 2018

I light a candle and set the jar onto the wooden desk slowly, careful to avoid making a sound. I spread a blanket on the floor. Pull my Bible from the shelf. Gently lower myself onto my knees. Breathe tender, relieved breaths—the …

article | May 20, 2019

See if you can figure out where I am in each of these two scenes. Scene 1: The music is loud. The crowd seems to pulse with excitement. Most of our hands are up. We sing louder and louder. We reach higher …

article | October 6, 2009

There are essentially two ways of responding to life’s hurts and unfair experiences. Every time we get hurt, we choose to respond in one of these two ways. The first, natural response is to become a debt collector. We set out to …

article | July 29, 2015

Caution: Contains explicit material not suitable for all readers. Monday I waved a caution flag warning that porn is everywhere in our culture and is increasingly socially acceptable among Christians. That whole post might have felt like I was simply stating the …

article | January 8, 2015

The following post is one of our most read posts of all times. I guess lots of girls are looking for practical ways to study the Bible. Since we are focusing on God's Word all month, we dug this post up from …

article | November 2, 2020

Editor’s Note: This post is adapted from the original blog post Erin Davis wrote in 2016. For months I’ve been warming the bench. It seems every other writer on the surface of the globe has put on their battle gear and jumped …

article | July 26, 2023

I was barely old enough to have any idea of the meaning of “mentoring” when I experienced it for the first time in an “official” sense. From the time I was a little girl, I’d had a heart for the Lord and …

article | December 11, 2017

Bible study leaders. Mentor moms. Event planners. Sunday school teachers. Childcare coordinators. Prayer support. This is a list that could go on and on and on. Volunteer recruitment is part of the job description of women’s ministry, and for most of us, …

article | July 20, 2020

I may be the Thomas Edison of preschool Bible lessons. He found 10,000 ways a light bulb wouldn’t work. I found 10,000 ways not to teach preschoolers the Bible. This is exactly why I’m thankful that during my first year of teaching, …