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article | June 27, 2016

Of all the words that could be used to describe your ministry is prayerful at the top of the list? Last summer I spent time in Haiti with a group of twenty-four women and children's leaders. The trip was eye-opening in so …

article | January 9, 2017

Collections Faithful Women & Their Extraordinary God by Noël Piper (Crossway, 2005) The stories of these five ordinary women—Sarah Edwards, Lilias Trotter, Gladys Alyward, Esther Ahn Kim, and Helen Roseveare—will challenge readers to make a difference for Christ in their families, in …

article | March 22, 2021

"God doesn't need me." Written with dry erase marker on my mirror, this phrase greeted me every morning in 2009. I had just started a job in youth ministry and loved it! Teaching the Bible to high school girls and modeling a …

article | August 28, 2017

There’s no point in trying to sugarcoat it, this blog post will be awkward. Talking about sex almost always is. I think it’s important for us to go there anyway because . . . It’s tempting to question if God’s standards are …

article | February 8, 2021

Twenty-two years ago, when my church leaders asked me to serve as a director of children’s ministry, I promptly said, “No, thank you.” Honestly, I loved being at home with my children and discipling the women that God brought my way. Although …

article | February 13, 2020

Evelyn was a regular at women's Bible studies. During prayer time, she would often share that she was struggling with anxiety. She was concerned about how her many perceived failures were affecting her young daughter. Over the two years I had known …

article | August 3, 2022

Do you long to make room for younger women to lead? Do you lose sleep wondering how you’re supposed to pass the baton to the next generation? As a leader, you may sense the Lord nudging you to pour into younger women—but …

article | February 5, 2015

February is the month of love. Many of us will be swept up in the emotion of it all, either googly-eyed and heart sick over the love in our lives, or crestfallen and heartbroken over the lack thereof. Because of that, us …

article | December 28, 2011

Without question, next to the Holy Spirit, the single greatest help in my personal devotional life has been to read the Scripture with paper and pen in hand so I can record insights from the Word. As I write down what God …

article | March 27, 2008

In our newsletter, we promised to address 17 freeing truths here on the site. Check back in the archives to read the first 10 truths along with the honest comments girls have left about the power of those truths in their lives. …