Blog For Christian Women by Christian Women

I Don’t Believe In Balance

How will I do it all? How do I balance life and family and work? I don’t believe in balance.I don’t believe in balance because I cannot find it anywhere ...

Being Joy-Full

In Your presence is fullness of joy. — Psalm 16:11 NASB“I need a leaf blower. But for people.”I chuckled when I saw that line on a tea towel — and ...

Strong: Embracing a Woman's Nature

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. — Ephesians 4:15 As ...

You Know You've Drifted When... You Stop Gathering and You Start Isolating

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes. ~ Henry Cloud*The Community of the ChurchEverything I grew up thinking about ...

Grateful Even When Bad Gets Worse

Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no fruit on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no ...

Wait While God Works

So here I sit in the waiting room. The receptionist took my name, recorded my insurance data, and gestured to a chair. “Please have a seat. We will call you ...

Good Goes Hard

Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” — Genesis 3:12I’ve got to be honest with ...

100 Days to Brave: Just Start

Sometimes, life feels a little too ordinary and understated. We go about our days as if nothing meaningful could ever happen to us. We’re held back by fear and what ...

Let Your Heart Break

It was a broken heart that first ignited my passion to find my cause. When I was around nine years old, during afternoon nap time for my younger siblings, my ...

Think Like a Girl: Believe in a Good God

Happiness and the Higher Power AgentAn aspect of agency that influences happiness is whether you believe in a force that acts in the world and causes events to happen — ...

One Plot or Two

Editor’s note: Kayla Stoecklein is a voice of compassion and hope for those oppressed with the mostly-taboo topic of suicide. It’s a delicate issue, one haunted by shame and fear, ...

Yes! You Can Color, Draw, and Paint in Your Bible (or Bible study)!

A New Form of Worship: Bible Art JournalingBible art journaling – have you heard of it? Journaling in the margins of your Bible isn’t something new, but drawing, doodling, and ...

Family Fume: Speaking in Love

One spring day, I sat in my backyard with my friend Suzy and our kids. While we relaxed in lawn chairs, sipping lemonade, a few of the children played on ...

You’re Invited to our Spring OBS (And it’s Your Pick)!

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland… — ...

God’s Majesty Unfolding

Editor’s note: Do you love poetry? Have you recently come to appreciate the beauty and creativity each line of prose offers? Well, we’re hanging on every line of Morgan Harper ...

Praying to Say Yes to God Each Day of Your Life

When you buy a house you first make a large down payment. Then, to keep the house, you must make a smaller payment every time it comes due. You can’t ...

Free Resources

Free Online Bible Study with Lysa TerKeurst

Free Online Bible Study with Lysa TerKeurst

Having your trust broken can be life-altering, but it doesn't have to be life-ruining.... Join the FREE Online Bible Study with Lysa TerKeurst and get access to 6 study videos and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 1/21