The Joy of the Lord is Your Strength
Life is hard; you won’t find joy by denying that. Instead, the joy of the Lord is your strength. It’s a gift that doesn’t depend on circumstances.
Parable of the Wheat and Tares
Are you familiar with the parable of the wheat and tares? Sherry is sharing three things we can learn from it as Christian women in this post.
Talks with God: 4 Things I’ve Learned About Prayer
I’ve learned some things about prayer over the last year or so. I’ve always been around prayer, always had talks with God, and over the years my own prayers have changed and grown. But what I’ve learned more recently is more about what we think prayer should look like versus what God wants it to…
Cancel Culture: A Christian Take
Cancel culture isn’t new. People in authority often “cancel” anyone who dared to speak against them. But it’s starting to seep deeper into society. Sherry shares more in this post. The famous general and eventual emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, gradually surrounded himself with ‘yes men’, people who only spoke to him positively, only reinforced…
Loaves and Fishes
He gave what he had to Jesus, but it wasn’t really about the loaves and fishes it all. After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on…
Setting Boundaries: A Christian Take
Setting boundaries can sometimes be considered controversial. Some Christians might have been taught that setting boundaries is selfish, or that doing so shows a lack of love in their hearts. It might be seen as punishing the other person and refusing to forgive transgressions. Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek, to walk the…
Are You Using Your Spiritual Gifts?
1 Corinthians 12:1-12 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can…
Thistles and Thorns
I was talking to my dad last week and he brought up the topic of thorns in the Christian life, that sometimes what we call our “thorns” are actually necessary to our growth. This made me think. He’s not wrong. Nature & Thorns I love following mustang pages on Facebook. The pictures of the horses…
It’s Okay to Need Help
When my second daughter was two or three years old, she had a moment I’ll never forget. This daughter of mine now has children of her own, and I likely won’t let them forget this moment in their mother’s life either. She had just gotten a new pair of shoes – sandals with a velcro…
Everyone’s Got Baggage
Ten years ago, our family went on a six week trip around the country, showing the kids major spots like the Grand Canyon, Washington DC, the grassy knoll in Dallas, and the LEGO museum in Ohio. It was a fascinating adventure, let me tell you, as we elected to camp at KOAs across the country…
“Saul-to-Paul”
A young man, I’ll call him Steve, was recently told that he’d occasionally be teaching a young adult class at church in the next few months. Steve was talking to me about this, and something was bothering him. A friend of his at church told him they weren’t sure he’d be able to relate to…
What Does “Serving God” Mean?
What does “serving God” mean? What does serving God look like? I grew up in an era when every young person I knew was encouraged to go into full-time Christian service. All of us. It was considered the most you could aspire to, the one field of work that really meant you’d given yourself to…
