How to Help Your Hopeless, Hurting Friends
Responding to our friends' problems with positive thinking or self-help advice is not enough. They need to experience the healing that only Jesus can bring.
The Gospel Goal of Mentoring
The goal of mentoring is to know Christ in a more intimate way through the benefit and blessing of walking purposefully alongside a more mature believer.
Why You Need a Mentor Who Is M.O.R.E.
Meet the woman who has spoken truth into my life for two decades.
Why You Need Relationships with Little Old Ladies
Why your new best friend may have a head of gray hair.
Creating a Sisterhood of Girls Mentoring Girls
We're dreaming of a worldwide sisterhood of girls mentoring girls. Join us?
When He Just Wants to Be Friends
How to avoid being crushed by those four painful words: “Let’s just be friends.”
Is Boy-Craziness Really All That Bad?
Is boy-craziness harmless fun or high treason?
What to Do When You Can’t Work It …
What to do when a relationship is over.
How to Know When You've Found 'The One'
With seven billion people on the planet, how are you supposed to find “the one”?
When Father’s Day Isn’t Happy
Three things to remember when Father's Day isn't happy.
Letting Your Family Off the Hook of Perfection
Sure, we love our families, but they also get on our nerves sometimes.
Why Do Girls Always Ask, "Is He Cute?"
There are better questions than, “Is he cute?”
5 Things I've Learned from My Unbelieving Friends
I love Jesus in a crazy-all-of-my-heart kind of way. One of my best friends is an atheist. Here's what I’m learning from that friendship.
A Godly Girl's Guide to Fighting
Ever wonder how you should confront a friend? God gives us some very specific instructions.
More Than a Misfit
Maybe you view that girl at youth group the one with the lip ring as a misfit. Or maybe you view that girl without piercings as a misfit.
She Wants to Be Like You
I've realized how important it is for me, as an older person, to be careful of the things I do around younger people.
Take the Sunshine with You to Work
If you are in a negative communication climate at work, God may use you to change the climate.
Does He Inconvenience Himself For You?
God has used this little llama to teach me something about submission and about the inconvenience of love.
Best Of: Looking For "The One"
The idea that there's one person out there for us is certainly a romantic one. But I'm not sure it's biblical.
Best Of: What Is True Friendship?
What makes a good friend? I challenge you to focus more on being a friend than having the right friends.
From the Archives: But What About Stepdads?
We hope you're making plans to bless your dad this coming Sunday, but we recognize that for some of you, Father's Day is ... complicated.
Four Friends Every Girl Needs
Should we accept being lonely or do something about it? I vote for option B.
Do I Have To Tell?
Bringing your sins out of the darkness and into the light is the best way to loosen their grip on your life.
The Instruction of a Father
Discover the twelve lasting lessons that Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth learned as a young girl from her father.
Donna Otto's Mottos
Poignant quotes to live by from Donna Otto that will make you think, and will make you a success if you will live by them!
I Need a Boyfriend
Whether or not the guys around you see your value or confirm your worth or beauty, God does.
When You Don't Have a Valentine
If you're struggling with feelings of loss, anxiety, loneliness, or frustration this Valentine's Day, this post is for you.
Are Crushes Okay?
There is one question that has been asked on this blog more than any other—are crushes okay?
Friends with Benefits Scientifically Impossible
Whether you like it or not or believe it or not, you get "addicted" and "bonded" to the people you have sex with.
Why Reconciliation Really Matters
When we ignore the needs of those around us, it limits God's response to us when we are in need.