“For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.” -Hebrews 12:3
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How To Find Soul Rest
Do you long to find rest for your soul? We search to find a sacred place away from the cares and concerns of this life and where all is well. Our crammed schedules and overpacked lives result in a flurry of activity that can leave us completely depleted. When we feel overwhelmed, do we know…
The Key to Choosing Contentment and Finding Peace in Your Life
My perspective gets all jumbled up most days. How about you? Our hearts can easily shift and sway as emotions bounce around us, instead of grasping reality. In this day and age, it can be hard to keep choosing contentment and finding peace in your life because of loud voices distracting you from what is truly…
Trusting God Through Infertility: Lies I Believed and Truths That Set Me Free
Are you struggling in trusting God through infertility? The road to motherhood is broken, and throughout my journey I have experienced pain and grief that cannot be measured with words. A pain that has shaken my faith in the Lord in a way that I feel ashamed to admit. My cries have continuously echoed the…
Discover 3 Powerful Ways to Beat the Blues and Find Joy
Does your joy-o-meter seem to plummet to an all new low with the latest headline, heartache, or health concern? Do you find since the paycheck is stretched, so is your peace? Are you having wrestling with how to beat the blues and find joy again? With all the self-help guru’s out there it can be…
The Power of Christ In You
Have you ever struggled with feeling powerless as a Christian? Maybe it’s a general feeling of weakness or an angst you can’t put your finger on, but you feel powerless to walk in faith. Are you worried that God will love you one day and not the next? What is the power of Christ in…
How to Know God’s Will for Your Life
Knowing God’s will. I have wrestled with that flesh eating monster more times in my life than I care to admit. The fingers of doubt and uncertainty tap on my shoulder to distract me whenever God wants to take me to the next level of knowing Him. So, how do we differentiate between something not…
Help For The Self-Condemning Heart
What does your heart say? If you are like most others, you may struggle with a self-condemning heart that is shrouded in negative thoughts, gloomy outlooks, and visions of defeat. There is help for the self-condemning heart! The Enemy doesn’t want us to live with freedom, joy or a light heart. Far from it, he…
How To Pray Boldly
We clasp our hands together and drop to our knees in prayer only to be hit in the face with awkward silence. Our goal is to pray boldly, but instead our prayers sound weak, wimpy, and disconnected. Instead of prayer making us feel heard and comforted, it leaves us feeling powerless before God and still…
Calming the Storms of Life
The unexpected phone calls, health diagnosis, or broken relationships can cause our hearts to churn with turmoil and our minds to race with anxiety. Are you stuck in the middle of a mess and need help calming the storms of life? Are you looking for God in the middle of your storm and wondering if…
3 Practical Tips for Helping Your Child Overcome Anxiety With God
How do you help your child overcome anxiety as a Christian? Are you looking for help on how to handle a child with their issues of fear or anxiety? It’s a question many ask when our souls hit the high seas and we feel like there’s no anchor. It’s hard to watch our children struggle with…
How to Forgive Someone When Your Heart is Hurting
Life on our farm has seen its fair share of medical adventures over the last 29 years. From staples and stitches, to broken bones and big surgeries, we’ve seen it all. There’s a list of wounds a mile long and plenty of scars to prove it. Do you have a list of heartaches a mile…
4 Powerful Tips on How to Be A Bold Prayer Warrior for Your Children
When God made me a mom, I was clueless about the power of prayer. I had no idea that He was going to teach me how to pray without ceasing and equip me to be a prayer warrior. Are you wondering how to be a bold prayer warrior for your children? Here’s how God worked…
Does God Cry? Celebrating Christmas at the Cross
Is God a distant Being who is indifferent to the trajectory of humanity? Does He see the suffering, heartache, and pain we experience on a daily basis? Does God cry? Does God care? Does God cry when we cry? Baby Jesus cried like any other human baby. Being born brings pain. What was His first…
Deep Grief, Great Love- Finding Your Anchor When A Loved One Dies
Have you experienced grief or loss and feel like you are in the storm of your life? Waves of grief crash over your heart and it becomes harder and harder to find stability. In the tidal waves of fresh grief, comes a desperate need to cling to an anchor your soul. It is often through…
10 Practical Ways to Love Someone Who is Grieving
Do you know someone who has lost a loved one, but feel at a loss how to reach out in a practical way? Do you want to support them but feel like you might make their pain worse by saying or doing something that could be taken wrong? How do you love someone who is…
10 Bible Verses for Fighting Fear
By Shannon Leibold The most often repeated command in the Bible is this: “Do not fear.” God instructs us not to be afraid, not because there aren’t very real things to be scared of in this world, but because He’s calling us to faith in Him. Fear is a natural response to dangerous and unknown…
The Power of Speaking Words of Encouragement
By Nicole Kauffman There’s no doubt, that others’ words have the power to change our days, our moods and our actions. Speaking words of encouragement is one of the most powerful ways to build each other up and spur one another on toward good. But have you ever felt the sting of negative words? As…
5 Praying Women in the Bible
By Shannon Leibold Throughout history, women have a special place in the story of redemption. They are life-bringers, world-changers and truth-tellers. They bring warmth, wisdom and grace to relationships. They speak truth, engage in good deeds, and nurture the next generation. These mighty women have one thing in common: they are women of prayer. While…
5 Keys to a Powerful Prayer Life
By Stacey Pardoe A few years ago, I realized that my prayer life lacked the power and fervency I longed for. Every morning, I prayed over lists of names and needs, but prayer felt like hard work more than a life-giving encounter with Jesus. I was desperate to uncover some new keys to a powerful…
A Simple 5-Step Method to Rekindle Your Prayer Life
By Shannon Leibold I squirmed in the pew as the pastor talked about the importance of prayer in the life of a believer. Not that I disagreed with anything he was saying – in fact, I would be quick to shout a hearty “Amen!” with all my Bible-believing, church going friends. The tension came in…
5 Helpful Tips on How to Respond to Hurtful Words
By Emily Saxe The tears soaked my hands covering my face, my shoulders shaking with the weight of sobs and the hurtful words just spoken to me. I had endured a friend attack my character for over an hour, and I sat on my couch at a loss as to how to respond to those…
The Day God Sent Me a Letter…Overcoming Anxiety and Fear
I was in the middle of cruising through a good Bible study, bee-bopping in time with the sunshine when God ran me into a brick wall. It was just a simple exercise in the workbook, but it wrecked me. The assignment began with a risky question, “If God would write you a letter about your…
Wrestling in Prayer for an Abundant Harvest
By Shannon Leibold I come from wide-open spaces and barefoot summers and rows of corn taller than my head. Filling the role of the son he never had, I was my farmer-Dad’s shadow. In the spring, I stood on the back of the seed drill watching those little bean seeds fall into the earth as…
Wrestling with God in Prayer for My Son
By Nicole Kauffman It was one AM and my husband and I sat on the edge of our bed watching our son breathe on the monitor. We’d gotten back from the ER not even an hour ago and already he looked like he needed to go back. Adrenaline washed over us in waves as we wrestled…
3 Godly Responses When a Friend Hurts You Deeply – Plundered by a “Frenemy”
Do you struggle with how to heal from a broken friendship, or wonder how to forgive a friend who has become a frenemy? When a friend hurts you deeply, it is hard to have a godly response. Here’s my story. Tick. Tick. Tick. Kaboom. When I walked into church lobby that Sunday, I was completely…
Wrestling With God in Prayer for Discernment
By Stacey Pardoe Dawn breaks with a lilac mist as I sit beside the window to watch the world awaken. I’m awake early today—before the patter of little feet and the requests for cartoons. I’m here to sort through a set of confusing circumstances and wrestle with God in prayer for discernment. Not long ago,…
How To Handle Unmet Longings and Broken Relationships God’s Way
There’s nothing like a romantic comedy on the big screen to stir longings in our heart. We dream of a courageous, drop-dead-gorgeous guy who will sweep us off our feet. We imagine the bliss of escaping the mundane, leaving the pain of the past and the stress of the present far behind. In our secret…
How to Get A Grip and Guide Your Emotions By Applying Biblical Truth
When I was single, I spent a lot of time wondering if I would ever get married. I thought about the future a lot. Sometimes my thoughts were filled with anxiety and worry, and other times they were resting peacefully in God’s sovereignty. My questions about marriage were eventually answered in 2011 when I walked…
How to Be Still and Wait on God…Even When He’s Silent
Are you in a season of waiting on God to move in your life? Are you surrounded by darkness that doesn’t go away? Does it seem like God is pressing the pause button on your future, or are you falling apart because of a situation you are facing? When life the storms of life hit…
4 Ways to Identify False Teachers in the Church
Do you know if your church or an online ministry you follow is preaching the true gospel or simply serving up a “feel good”, man-centered theology which will lead people astray? Let’s talk about 4 ways to identify false teachers in the church. I shut my laptop and began strumming my fingers in a nervous…
How To Live A Godly Life In An Ungodly World…Without Judging
How do we live a godly life in an ungodly world without a spirit of condemnation or judgement? How do we manage to sort out the sinful judgment of others from the Scripture’s command to “know their fruit?” I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve caught myself thinking, “I can’t believe she did…
How to Cast Your Burdens on the Lord & Climb Out of Your Pit
Everyone gets loaded down with heavy burdens, and it is hard to let them go. Do you struggle with casting your burdens on the Lord and having the strength to climb out of your pit? BURDENS. Whether it is finances, strained relationships, failing health, or unexpected grief. Those types of burdens can steal your joy and…
