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article | February 11, 2014

Growing up, my commitment to my future husband was to simply save my physical purity for him-a commitment I didn't always live out very successfully. I viewed purity as "the edge of a cliff" and told myself that as long as I …

article | July 24, 2020

If you knew me well, you’d quickly learn that I’m not an arts-and-crafts person. Even my best attempts at “easy, follow-along” projects somehow seem to go awry. Just ask my family about my attempt to paint a landscape scene of some birch …

article | July 28, 2016

Fifteen years ago today I walked down a sandy aisle and married Jason barefoot at sunset (swoon!). Having a decade and a half of marriage under my belt doesn't exactly qualify me as a marriage expert. I've still got a lot to …

article | November 12, 2018

There are seasons of leadership transition in every local church—changes with pastors, elders, staff members, and other key leaders. Whether it’s a result of retirement, moving on to a new ministry or call from God, or even due to a consequence of …

article | December 17, 2015

Hey girls! We recognize that standing for truth in school can be tough. (That’s true no matter where you go to school.) We want to equip you to live God’s truth and teach it to others, so we’ve created “Stand for Truth …

article | February 9, 2017

Extended years of singleness are a growing trend in our culture. (Whether we like it or not.) For a variety of reasons, many young men and women aren’t getting married as soon as they’d like to. Since I am twenty-eight and single, …

article | October 14, 2019

When I accepted the job as women’s ministry director at First Evangelical Church in Memphis, I was excited and scared to death at the same time. Even though I had served for ten years on staff with Cru and had just graduated …

article | January 22, 2020

Mandy had always been a planner. She was organized, disciplined, and never missed an opportunity to help someone else. She’d always had a plan for her life from the get-go: raised in a Christian family, homeschooled from kindergarten to high school, surrounded …

article | March 31, 2011

Don't you wish that the Bible came with some amendments concerning modern media? I mean, wouldn't it be great if God released a quarterly statement that told us exactly what TV shows, movies, songs, and websites He approves of and which ones …

article | August 21, 2017

How many women are coming to your Bible study? Was your last event successful? Do you have enough volunteers? Are women stepping up for leadership? When asked to consider the current state of the women’s ministry, we can be tempted to only …