A couple of days later he told me that he was ready to pray that prayer and ask Christ into his life. It was one of the most precious and holy moments of my life to lead my son into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ....
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I recently heard a pastor say that to be a successful Christian, you need three ingredients: the Word of God, the Spirit of God, and the community...
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The key to parenting tweens is knowing your child and reading the signals. Sometimes it’s a hug, sometimes it’s a milkshake, and other times it’s just leaving them to be alone. ...
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The difference starts with us, the moms. You see, the gratitude that is evident or missing is in many ways related to the behavior learned from parents....
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Christian Heroes Then & Now books simply show what it looks like for a normal, failure-ridden, everyday person to live a life fully surrendered to Christ. Through this revelation, lives are being changed, whether in family read-aloud time or behind prison bars....
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How do I keep the chaos to a minimum while keeping focus on the eternal? Here are a few tips to keep silent in your night:...
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Once upon a time, not so long ago, in a kingdom, far, far away, there lived a girl. Not just any girl, of course! Our heroine was a Shopping kind of girl. A thrift shop junkie, an American Picker wanna-be, an I-Break-For-Yard-Sales woman, a Craigslist and ebay peruser. This kind...
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Movies and television shows make girl time look like a wild and crazy escape into irresponsibility, so many of us avoid it like the plague. Perhaps what we need instead is a redefinition of girl time....
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When I was young – back in the olden days, by crikey – I longed for a pony. My longing would not be fulfilled by roly-poly bugs named Juan, stray cats that refused to cuddle, or the occasional frog that was captured, named, and snuggled, and who played dead at...
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It really doesn’t take much time to take care of ourselves and provide the energy boost we need to truly feel great, even in those stretches of life when our choices are severely limited....
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