As a new Christian and young mother, I chose Proverbs 22:6 as a guiding scripture for raising my children. This admonition says parents are to “train a child in the way he should, go and they will not depart from it.” A decade later, however, my parenting didn’t seem to be working the way I […]
The Super Bowl is a significant event this time of year. I’m not really a football fan, myself, but after growing up with three brothers and my dad, living with my husband, Jim, and having two sons-in-law, I’m somewhat familiar with the game…
Today’s devotion is one of the 150 biographies included in A Woman After God’s Own Heart Bible by Elizabeth George!
Acknowledging that God’s ways are not our ways has made a real difference in my life, and accepting that truth can make a difference in yours, too. Romans 11:33 says, “Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!”
The writer of Proverbs 25:11 paints this word picture about good communication, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” As a woman after God’s own heart, this kind of beauty should be the goal for all of your communication. Here are several of God’s keys to godly speech.
Discover this new kind of power — humility. In 1 Peter 5:5-6, Peter says: Be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. As Saint Augustine […]
There are few questions I’m asked more than, “What makes a woman become beautiful in God’s eyes?” The simplest answer is devotion and time.
Freedom! William Wallace was not afraid to claim it in the movie “Braveheart.” Our founding fathers were not afraid to declare it for our nation on July 4, 1776. And the Lord says that the greatest kind of freedom possible is ours: “…the truth will set you free” John 8:32 “All are justified freely by […]
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Many people often wonder how God talks with His children. Today, He speaks through what I call “the four Cs” which answer the question, “How does God communicate with us?“
Elizabeth and I have been working on the last several chapters of our next book, A Couple After God’s Own Heart. I have to say, it’s been quite an exercise! It reminds me of being told, “Don’t pray for patience because you’ll have to go through trials to get it!” Well, all I can say […]
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