Summer 2024 Bible Study: Psalms 1 -13
This summer we're studying Psalms 1-13 together. I love the Psalms since many of them are prayers and express feelings we're often afraid to share out loud. Summer can be a hectic time and reading one Psalm a week is an excellent way to spend time in God's word and...
How to Teach Our Kids to Hunger for True Food (advice from a former anorexic): by Emily T. Wierenga
“I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have nolife in you.” John 6:53 I grew up a pastor’s daughter. I grew up swinging leotard legs from wooden pews and wishing I could run and laugh and dance in church. I grew up...
{God Story} Kelly Tyson: How God Helped Me Overcome Being Lukewarm
Laying there in the stark morning sunlight, listening to my heart pound in my chest, breathing deep as if to be sure I really could breathe – I saw clearly the message God was sending me. This sitting on the pews, living through the “good works” of my husband, heartlessly following the “moral laws” of the Bible. This was not enough. This was lukewarm. Spit out I most certainly would be. ..
{God’s Story} Learning to Trust God in the Midst of Change
Within two years our son Zane was born in 1982. Life was so good! By 1985, I was pregnant again, and we welcomed a beautiful baby girl to our family, Allison Layne. I had finally crafted the life I wanted. Life was right on track, so I thought. I didn’t have a clue that we were about to experience one of the cruelest things life can throw at you…
{God Story} Lisa Dean- How to Delight in the Ministry of Motherhood
Sometimes I wonder how my early days of motherhood would have differed had I understood that motherhood is a calling from God rather than a change in circumstances. I don’t expect that I’m done learning this lesson. Just as I am a tool of God in the lives of my children, God also uses them to sanctify me…
{God Story} Cherry Fargo–Journey Toward God
Even though I had professed a belief in Jesus as the Son of God at a much younger age, these things brought me to the conclusion that God had surely let both my sister and I down. Therefore, I decided that I would not acknowledge a god whom I felt had abandoned us…