Spiritual Growth

Kristi Woods encourages faith growth with these tools, ideas, and conversations centered on the Bible, self-worth, love, prayer, and trust.

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Grab this New Memory Verse & Hide It In Your Heart Right Now

Welcome to WORD18, our memory verse program. Welcome! How’s it going? This year’s memory verses – are the nuggets of Psalm 34 getting tucked into your heart? Oh, how sweet to admit I’m perfect, but that’s a big ‘ol dream contrived by darkness itself. So the imperfect me continues the journey toward memorizing the first…

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Do You Feel Loved?

Do you feel loved? Do you have a Valentine? Maybe not – or maybe you do after all. Feeling Loved and Valentines Day A piece I read recently about Valentine’s Day history intrigued me. I found the history fascinating. What conviction Valentine held! As Valentine’s Day approaches, our chance of similar persecution seems low. Love still…

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Four Keys to Effective Prayer {Guest Post by Jim Wolstenholm}

  Four Keys to Effective Prayer By Jim Wolstenholm Nearly everyone prays – you pray. But do you pray effective prayer? Does your prayer make a difference? Does your prayer get answered? Effective prayer is answered prayer! When we pray effective prayers, they make a profound difference. While faith that your prayers will be answered…