Learning to pray is something most of us take little time for. I want to open your heart up to the idea of praying when you are Bible journaling by creatively expressing Scripture to God. How easy is it to just draw or paint onto the page of your journaling Bible without giving a thought to the words you have selected to feature? I’ve done that more than once! What
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES are just the thing to make when you want to offer a little grace to a friend who just had a baby, or suffered an injury, and of course your family! I am not a food-blogger but sometimes you just have to share something like these seriously awesome cookies so you can share how thankful you are for those in your life! Have you ever noticed that
Are you sometimes like a weather-vane with faith that is blowing in the wind like a reed? As women, it can be easy to be swayed this way and that because we have an innate desire to be liked and loved. If you remember, John the Baptist questioned whether Jesus was the promised Messiah when he was in prison. He had lost hope and wondered if he had placed his trust
Digging Deeper: Luke 7:18-23 Key Verse: And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” Luke 7:19 Sometimes my faith is shaken when my hope gives way to the storms of life. Has your faith ever been shaken to the point that your hope gives way? When you no longer feel God’s presence in the storm? I wonder where
Choosing a Bible for journaling can be daunting when there are so many note-taking Bibles available. Today, I will show you how to narrow down the choices so you will find a Bible that you love for journaling. You Don’t Need a Special Journaling Bible If you cannot afford a special Bible for journaling right now, I am here to say, you don’t need to buy one! The first time
Do you feel like a failure by the end of the day as you lay in bed thinking back over your day? There was one thing that I just couldn’t wrap my head around when my kids were growing up. I often lived as if everything depended on me. I found it easy to slip into the habit of mothering by ‘self-alone’ instead of totally tapping into the Holy Spirit’s
Life isn’t without sorrow and most of us will need comfort sooner or later because we are grieving the loss of someone close. God does not leave you to suffer alone and offers compassion and joy for your future. Even when you are sure that you have placed your trust in Jesus as your personal Savior, and know that your loved one knows Jesus, the vacancy they leave in your
Living out your authority as a mom in humility before God means that you have faith in God to work out the details in your children’s lives. Have you read the story about the centurion in Luke 6 recently? He was a man of tremendous authority. I want to challenge you today to culture humility that allows God to work in your children’s lives the way this man demonstrated, through
Are you rubbing shoulders with people who have rejected Jesus? Stand strong like Jesus did when he got up to read the Word of God in his hometown synagogue. Digging Deeper: Luke 4:16-44 Key Verses: So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. (Luke 4:16) So all those in
Has Jesus reached out and touched your life? Do you have more concern over being made spiritually whole than having physical wholeness? Digging Deeper: Luke 5 Key Verses: And it happened when He was in a certain city, that behold, a man who was full of leprosy saw Jesus; and he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” Then He put
