Watching today's ceremony, I was reminded that we can never take American freedoms and traditions for granted.
Watching today's ceremony, I was reminded that we can never take American freedoms and traditions for granted.
Resolutions aren’t — or don’t have to be — about denial, false hope, or self-help. They’re simply about living with intention. I’d even argue that’s a biblical concept.
When you finally see your own sin for the monster it is, you want to kill it. But you can’t — not on your own.
Someone likened the president to the “king of Israel” and the “second coming of God” — compliments Trump then bragged about. As Christians, how should we respond?
Two memoirs and a new old novel — books I’ve read this year and which ones I like best!
Losing steam on your New Year’s resolutions? Read Volcanic Momentum by Jordan Ring for some inspiration and practical advice.
There are multiple verses in Scripture that are about remembering what God has done, which tells me that it must be pretty important.
There I was, thinking I was generous, even bold enough to judge others for their greed … and the whole time, God was trying to get through to me.
The 21-year-long era of I Kissed Dating Goodbye is coming to a close, Joshua Harris now disagreeing with what he wrote in 1997. What can we learn from the controversial book and its author?
This week I decided to track my progress on each of my New Year’s resolutions. I'm challenging you to do the same!
"Please help me not to be impatient about baby coming!" I scrawled in my prayer journal recently. "Help me to make the most out of waiting."
When I logged on to Twitter this morning I discovered it is #BookLoversDay. Since I don't blog about books enough (that's supposed to be a joke), here are a couple reads I highly recommend.
In stressful times, it's important to remember all there is to be thankful for. And when you live in Texas, there’s lot.
I didn't think I was that offendable. Not until I started reading Brant Hansen's 2015 book Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better.
Work-life balance. It's something a lot of people talk about. But the burden of actually finding that perfect balance more often than not falls on women. That's why I'm thrilled to have found two books on the subject written by two successful, wise, inspiring mothers.
At 5:30 in the morning, my friend and I hopped in the truck and made the two hour drive to visit Chip and Joanna Gaines' famous Magnolia Market in Waco.
Her visit proved a nice distraction from the question swirling in my mind. Still, it lurked just beneath the surface.
Can I do it?
I just posted my last book cover from the "7 Days 7 Covers" going around on Facebook. As I explained in Part I, I wanted to take things a step further on my blog and explain why I chose the books I did. So here are the books I chose for days 4-7 of the challenge.
I've enjoyed sharing some of the books that have meant the most to me on Facebook as part of the “7 Days, 7 Covers” challenge. Here, I share why those books have been so meaningful.