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article | July 9, 2008

You can go hours or days without having more than a passing thought of Him. You don’t have a strong desire to spend time with Him. You don’t have a strong hunger for the Word; Bible reading is a “chore”—something to mark …

article | July 24, 2017

We’re on the downhill slope of summer break. It will be time to head back to school before you know it. That means we just have two chapters left in our Summer Book Club pick, This Changes Everything by Jaquelle Crowe. Where …

article | September 6, 2011

I recently attended a girls' ministry forum where we spent the weekend talking about how to teach young women just like you to love and live like Jesus. One of the highlights for me was a team of child psychologists who have …

article | October 16, 2017

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, …

article | August 29, 2019

I’m applauding Linda Green for her wisdom on honoring God by submitting to our leaders—Tool #8 in the Women’s Ministry Leader Survival Guide series. This tool isn’t always easy to follow but it’s essential if we love God and want to flourish …

article | April 29, 2009

I had to get my driver’s license renewed yesterday. If you’ve done that before, you know it’s not a fun chore. I drove to the Department of Motor Vehicles, circled forever looking for a place to park, and stood in line waiting …

article | May 23, 2011

God’s Word teaches that thankfulness ought to be a way of life. But in the reality of our daily lives, it is so easy for discontentment, murmuring, complaining, criticizing, or even bitterness to displace the “attitude of gratitude.” Cultivating a thankful heart …

article | March 27, 2020

One Thing We’re Loving: Jess Connolly’s latest book, You Are the Girl for the Job. I’ve recommended this book to so many people. But I won’t lie, it’s not a book I would’ve naturally picked up on my own until I heard …

article | May 20, 2015

My wedding is less than three months away, so I’m frequently asked the same question by many caring people at church, in the grocery store checkout line, at the bank, and at Starbucks. “Are you excited for the wedding?” they’ll ask with …

article | January 24, 2018

Everybody studies the Bible a little differently. Personally, I take it one book at a time. I stay in that book until I’ve read and annotated (that’s a fancy word for “add notes to”) the whole thing. Then I move on to …