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WORD17, Week 28
Welcome to WORD17! August’s memory verse is here! As a reminder, WORD17 will be quiet for the remainder of the month as we move Joel to college and watch our other two blessings head into the busyness of a new school year. But WORD17 will be back in full force, coming to you each Monday,…
Deepen Your Faith with These 5 Easy Summer Reads
Ready for some summer reads? Maybe you’re a Christian fiction reader? I wasn’t–until recently. How did I not realize this missing piece of life’s puzzle?! Fiction jetted away some time ago on a 15-year vacation. Desire to dive into her words waned – she was gone! Non-fiction remained, and I clung dearly to many reads…
How We Can Help New Moms
How can we help new moms? How about this question first: Have you ever been a new mom? Maybe you know one? Perhaps your church even has a few? During Tony’s Navy tenure, I found myself wearing the role of “new mom” three times. Joel arrived first followed by Rebekah a couple of years later….
Grow with these 10 Promises of God ~ #WORD17, Week 27
Do meditate on the below 10 promises of God? We read the Bible. We study its words. Do the promises our Daddy situates within those pages sink deep within us? Do we allow them to go to the depths, to light a glimmer of hope when there seems to be none, to offer an aromatic…
#YourStory: Iris Peterson
Please join me in welcoming Iris Peterson to the blog. Iris and I met through the online writer’s training group, COMPEL Training. Her words are humble but staunch in the Spirit. There’s power in their midst. Enjoy! As I walked out of my co-worker’s classroom, I realized that decades of questions and moments of…
Doing Busy Better {Book Review}
“I don’t want to get more done; I want to get more of the right things done.” ~ Glynnis Whitwer Doing Busy Better is not a book about accommodating a busy schedule. It’s not a read that stresses and presses more onto our already-weary shoulders. No. These words of Glynnis Whitwer spring forth with gentle…
Headed to the Beach? Take these 9 Verses with You.
Headed to the Beach? Sand and waves and water – who doesn’t love their offer? Many of us will be heading to the beaches this summer – and a few more will be dreaming of the offer. There’s something of God each of us shouldn’t miss at the beach, however. Whether you dream of…
How’s Your Heart? WORD17, Week 23
Welcome to WORD17, a scripture memory program. Find this month’s posts concerning PS 37:7 here. Have you ever experienced a heart issue? Truth be told, people tangle with heart problems – some in the natural, all in the spiritual. After reading Andy Stanley’s Enemies of the Heart years ago, I found myself focused on the…
