Guest post by Jennifer Hayes Yates at jenniferhyates.com. Startled by the alarm near my bed, I push the snooze and snuggle back down into the warm chenille blanket. Just between drooling sleep and stark awareness, the fragrance of coffee meets my senses, and I am reminded of the reason for the alarm. It’s time for morning with the Master. Ok,… Read more
Guest post by Laura Bailey at Let Me Tell Ya Somethin’ Our family morning routine involves a prayer, a Bible verse, and a few songs while eating breakfast. The other day we sang a song that many of us equate with juice boxes and butter cookies. It says, “Read your Bible, pray every day if you want to grow.” My eldest… Read more
Life feels easily overwhelming for me right now. With baby number four on the way, homeschooling, trying to keep the house in order, and navigating the seas of being a self-employed family, there is no shortage of things to keep me wound up tightly. The responsibility feels consuming. And thus, peace and rest become long forgotten in favor of late… Read more
I’d love to share some of my very favorite eternal perspective Bible verses with you! While writing Heavenly Minded Mom: A 90 Day Journey to Embrace What Matters Most, I ended up compiling quite a list of Bible verses that relate to eternal perspective! I’ve decided to put together and share a list of my favorites for you to reference… Read more
Too often the things in which we find our sense of meaning are actually meaning-less. In and of themselves, our beautifully decorated homes will not last, and neither will our happy marriages to our handsome husbands. Even our motherhood will undergo a shift as we step into the life that is yet to come. Our possessions and money and fame… Read more
The Bibles we have in our homes and hold in our hands are nothing less than divinely-inspired, accurate revelations of God. Every story, every poem, every historic event, law and prophetic word join together to paint one picture of the God who set the world in motion and orchestrated this present reality. The people described in this book are real, and… Read more
So many of us are tired. Between meeting the needs of those around us, running our homes, working, or waking up with children throughout the night, we find ourselves depleted mentally, physically and emotionally. This exhaustion leads us to turn our focus from the things that matter most to survival. If that’s you, God has prepared a very practical balm… Read more
Have you ever had such an intense craving for something that you couldn’t have? Maybe it’s soda that isn’t available where you live or food you can only find during certain seasons. You probably try to find something similar to satisfy that craving, but in the end it’s just not the same. At times, I do this with my spiritual… Read more
As Christian mothers, we will thrive when we learn to pay attention to what God has said about our need for Sabbath rest. I was in a weary season of motherhood. My children were little. Their naps were not lining up. The baby had been cranky all day, and up every hour at night, for two weeks. I was nursing my eight-month-old almost… Read more
Sabbath rest still matters. It matters for you. If you grew up in a Baptist Church Ministry, or if you have read through the Bible, you know about Sabbath. This was a weekly day of rest which God required His people to acknowledge during the time of the Old Covenant. This day was holy. It was blessed by God and set apart for rest… Read more
Use this simple Bible study method to get to know God personally! Knowing God is life-changing. When we increase our knowledge of Him –not just head knowledge, but intimate knowledge, like the mystery of two becoming one in marriage, which is a symbol of Christ and the church –we begin to live eternal life now. In John 17:3 Jesus prayed, “Now this is… Read more
In this post we will look at the biblical purpose of friendship! Friendship is a holy venture. It is an opportunity for us to show and receive love in the same way that Christ loved us when He called us HIs friends. John 15:15 says, “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is… Read more
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