Creating a Culture of Service
Like many of you, I read Ann Voskamp's post about the truth behind the actions of ISIS and felt impotent. What do you do in the face of such evil? Yes, many of us gave money to help Preemptive Love give emergency relief, place children in school, and help women...
Changing your Family Culture
Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put...
God’s Story ~ Shinning Like Stars, Donna Smith
Donna Smith is a dear friend and elder's wife from my church. She has been fighting cancer for several years. Last year they thought she was cancer free only to have it come back a few months later. She is handling her battle with strength and grace that she...
10 Summer Bible Study Ideas
I've have learned so much from our study of Hope for the Weary Mom over the last couple of months in our Over A Cup Facebook group. Through your comments, I've learned I'm not alone on this mom journey. Many of you feel just as weary and strung out as I do, but...
Raising Godly Children: Begin with the End in Mind
Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it. ~ Proverbs 22:6, NIV There was a book that was quite popular at the time Tara was born. I received a copy of Training Up a Child by Gwendolyn Webb as a gift at the baby...
Fiction Friday ~ Meet
Meet She lifted her eyes from the book she had been staring at for the last 20 minutes but not seeing. His blue eyes glanced over at her for the briefest of moments, but left and impression that would last years. Where had she seen those eyes before? They couldn't be,...