Blog For Christian Women by Christian Women
Blog For Christian Women by Christian Women
My Relationship with God Has Been Complicated
Connecting with GodWhen I was growing up, people in my church often said that they felt as though they were “God’s favorite.” Though I would laugh and nod my head, ...
Creating Art in Your Bible
As an artist, I personally find value in the worn and tarnished, the patina and tattered, the distressed and imperfect in the same way God sees our value in our ...
Women Supporting Women: When Burdens Are Too Heavy
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. — Galatians 6:2Some plants — like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, hollyhocks, delphiniums, gladiolus — need extra support in order to ...
Thirteen Ways to Keep Your Love Playful
Editor’s note: Are you looking for a little more fun, joy, and spice in your marriage? Or a lot? Stephen and Misty Arterburn in their brand new book The Mediterranean ...
Play With Fire: The Holy Spirit and the Abundant Life
Holy SpiritOn the final day of the retreat, the prayer team called my mom to the front of the room. One of the leaders pushed her forward in her wheelchair, ...
8 Must-Read Books by Christian Women – New This Spring
Is there anything more wonderful than a new batch of books? I don’t think so! Friends, if you’re planning your reading list for Easter vacation with the family, or looking ...
The Power of Love in Action
We have some friends who have been married more than thirty years. In their mid-fifties now, they seem to enjoy all the blessings possible for a healthy married couple — ...
Losing Daisy: Cry With Me, Laugh With Me
I’ll start at the beginning of the end. In September 2009, Daisy Love, my darling girl of five years old, was diagnosed with kidney cancer. It was a Monday, the ...
From Broken to Free... A Story (and an Introduction)
Editor’s Note: Hey there, OBS Friends! We just came through The Broken Way study together and our team loved it so much that we don’t want it to be over! ...
The Prayer of Praise
I used to hurry into the church twenty minutes late on Sunday morning. By the time I found a seat and settled into it, the worship and praise time was ...
Mom Brain to the World
Give a HootIf this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, ...
Letting Go of My Guilt and Blame
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you. — Jon KrakauerThe first anniversary day of Candace’s disappearance fell on a Saturday, and when we ...
This Life I Live: The Right Thing
I asked for God to give me a sign… He gave me a building-sized billboard.Joey and I kept in touch and would talk to and see each other now and ...
X and Y: The Controversy of Gender Roles
I’ve heard it said that Jesus was the first feminist.It’s not a bad line. The way He treated women was millennia ahead of His time. And not just Jesus.Historians think ...
Cherish: Be Specific and Deliberate
Deliberately choosing the way we speak is essential to a lifetime of cherishing our mates. The early church father John Chrysostom urged husbands (speaking about their wives), “Never call her ...
Crushing Times When You Want to Run Away
Watch this Special Video Message from Lysa Just for Us!Jesus Could Have RunJesus knew the crushing heart feeling. He felt it. He carried it. He wrestled with it.And there was ...
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