Blog For Christian Women by Christian Women
Blog For Christian Women by Christian Women
Introducing Faith. Full, Our New Women's Community
Grow in FAITH Together ~ Share God’s LOVEAfter many months of dreaming, planning, and preparing, we are thrilled to introduce you to Faith.Full, the new newsletter for the FaithGateway community ...
Codependency: You Will Not Complete Me
When I was a kid I remember seeing the movie Jerry Maguire. There is a famous scene in the movie in which Jerry Maguire tells Dorothy Boyd that she completes ...
Mirrors Tell Half-Truths
Homiletics class at Bible Institute — the required and dreaded course which cruelly exposed one’s speaking flaws and then (hopefully) honed one’s preaching skills — was barreling toward me like ...
Healing Through Helping
Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into ...
Is My Pain Talking?
We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. — 2 Corinthians 10:5Thought for the Day: Our Lord doesn’t whisper shameful condemnations.Have you ever been in a situation ...
My Mother's Influence
“And your daddy isn’t going to live with us anymore.”“Why not?” I asked again, choking back the tears. I just could not accept the strange finality of my mother’s words. ...
Worries and Prayers: When Life Gets Hard
Let’s be real. Watching your kids navigate their way through life can be incredibly painful. Sometimes our kids face things that are even out of their control. As moms we ...
Desperation, Cold Pizza, and Fasting
Aaron, Henry, and I came back to our house in Grand Rapids at the end of August. Sometime during the summer, in a process so gradual it could almost be ...
Beautiful Things Happen When a Woman Trusts God
July 7, 1966, The Swing. When I was a child, my mom would take my sister Frances and me to the swings in the park. I loved being pushed on ...
Grief: The No-Change For a Year Rule
“No change for a year.”That’s the mantra of all grief counselors, particularly those who work in the funeral business. When you lose a loved one, don’t make any sudden moves.No ...
You Anoint My Head With Oil
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. — Psalm 23:5To the freed slaves, God smelled like cinnamon, cassia, olive oil, and myrrh — sweet and earthy, nutty and ...
The Mother and Child Project: His Plan is for Us to Help
In April 1997, Debbie and I visited a children’s hospital in Soweto, South Africa, with Franklin Graham and his Samaritan’s Purse organization.As we walked through the halls of that hospital, ...
Crazy Families Are Nothing New
Who Do You Think You Are: The Beautiful Mess of Jesus’ GenealogyThe NBC and TLC show Who Do You Think You Are? may appear to be only a sixty-minute-long Ancestry.com ...
Momlationships: The Ultimate Friends
Virginia Venit: “I thought we were going to be just friends.”Happy Gilmore: “What? Friends listen to ‘Endless Love’ in the dark.” From Happy GilmoreMy husband says I should call this ...
Prayer matters. People matter. Change can be good.
This past fall Marty hadn’t been feeling well. Each day he seemed a little worse than the day before. He was living in Michigan while his dad and I were ...
Abandonment: You Can Thrive Again
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo EmersonAlicia remembers standing on the wooden porch steps the ...
Free Resources
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