His Mercy is New

5 Verses to Encourage You To Rest This Summer

Most of us look forward to summer for a multitude of reasons. One of the things I personally am looking forward to the most this summer is down time and a break from our normal craziness of the school year. If we aren’t careful, though, we can even make our summers turn into crazy very quickly. There are so many…
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Loving Our Kids on Purpose: Chapter 5 & Conclusion

Blog· Books I'm Reading· Parenting

“It was for freedom that Christ set us free…for you were called to freedom, brothers; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” Galatians 5:1, 13 “Because love is the whole purpose for freedom, freedom is destroyed when we use it for anything else…Unless we are using our freedom…
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Happy June! Join me…

Blog· Books I'm Reading· Praying the Scriptures

Hi, everyone! I have 2 things starting up this month and wanted to make sure you saw them! Colossians in June I am starting to write & pray through COLOSSIANS today, June 1st! There are 22 weekdays in June and 22 days on this writing plan! That was unplanned by me, but ordained by God, I’m sure. Be sure to…
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Too Busy Not To Pray {Next Book Discussion}

Blog· Books I'm Reading· Prayer· Scriptures and thoughts

We are getting ready to launch our next BOOK DISCUSSION! 🙂 If you are hoping to grow and strengthen your prayer life, I hope you will join us! We will be reading Too Busy Not To Pray by Bill Hybels. We will start on June 6th with this new book and read 2 chapters every week. The chapters are fairly short,…
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Loving Our Kids on Purpose: Chapter 4

Blog· Books I'm Reading· Parenting

“Yes, children really are people. And if we fail to honor the truth that the only person who can control you is you when we interact with our children, we are inviting them to prove it to us. If you say, ‘Get over here right now,’ even a compliant child can demonstrate to you that you don’t control her….
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