Blog For Christian Women by Christian Women
Blog For Christian Women by Christian Women
Rest: I Need a Time-Out
When my children were young, I would often prescribe a timeout whenever they misbehaved. This relatively mild form of discipline was frequently met with a dramatic show of resistance — ...
The Grateful Marriage: Living the Golden Rule
Editor’s Note: Fawn Weaver grew tired of the negative portrayals of marriage on the news, talk radio, and reality TV, so she launched the blog HappyWivesClub.com and trekked across the ...
You Don't Have to Hide Anymore
I tell my son, Christian, many things; but one of the most important things I tell him, I repeat over and over: “The bigger the mess, the faster you run ...
Ugly Grace
For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things. – Colossians 1:19-20The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with ...
When God Hurts My Feelings
I don’t know another way to say this, so I’ll just shoot straight.Sometimes God hurts my feelings.Now, hear me out. I don’t mean this in an irreverent way. I very ...
Keeping Our Joy
And on that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The sound of rejoicing in Jerusalem could be ...
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 ...
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