Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 28:20

Tips to Faithfully Study the Bible

Taking time to study the Bible faithfully requires commitment.

Once you’ve taken the steps to establish a Bible study routine, now you must strive to be faithful. Setting up a schedule or routine for your Bible study is often the easy part. When life gets going and days are full is when being faithful can become challenging. This is when being intentional with our […]

Being Real: Praying for Gentleness + Salt & Light Link Up #41

How do you develop gentleness in yourself?

Last week I spent time praying for and focusing on cultivating peace in myself, my family and my home as part of the “Making Your Home a Haven” challenge. This week I’ll be in praying for gentleness in myself, my family and my home. My tones and words are not typically of a gentle nature […]

Obedience Brings Forth a Covenant

Noah's obedience brought forth a covenant from God.

Over the last week with Good Morning Girls, we’ve been reading through and studying chapters 6-11 of Genesis. I have absolutely loved going back to the beginning and reading God’s word from when time began. Many of the stories in Genesis we tend to just breeze over because we’ve heard or read them before. By […]

Establishing a Bible Study Routine

A mom’s day changes often, sometimes no two days in a week are even remotely the same. However in order to best care for our faith, family and home, we need to have some sort of routine. Just as our housekeeping and schooling requires routine, we need a Bible study routine as well. Establishing a […]

Being Real: Praying for Peace + Salt & Light #40

This week I'm praying for peace in my home.

Starting today throughout the month of October, I’m joining Courtney from Women Living Well on her, “Making Your Home a Haven” challenge. Every Monday this month I will be sharing what I’m praying for my home and ways that I’m striving to cultivate it in myself, my family and my home. Today I’m lighting a […]

Mother-Son Relationship: Daily Prayer Time

Daily prayer time is important not just for mothers, but for the mother-son relationship!

As a mother it is important to pray for our children, but I believe that it is equally important to take time to pray WITH our children. Our children not only need to know that we pray FOR them, about their futures and their current struggles, but they need to HEAR us pray and they […]

Back to the Beginning

Looking back at the beginning of the Bible!

It’s important for us to remember and in order to remember we have to look back in time. Through the Bible we are able to look back in time and discover truths, lessons and even warnings that God has recorded for us. Over the last week with Good Morning Girls we’ve read Jude, a couple […]

Bible Study is on My To Do List

I live by lists and Bible study is on one!

For several years I’ve desired to truly DIG into God’s word and study the Bible consistently. Yet, when my children were little the exhaustion was overwhelming and I was thankful for a quiet moment to pray on most days. Digging into God’s word with my favorite Bible study tools around me was just not possible. […]

Being Real: Homeschooling + Salt & Light #39

I hadn’t always planned to be homeschooling my kids. I wanted to have a career and have my kids enrolled in a small private school. I’m very thankful that God changed my heart and that we’re now headed into our 5th year of homeschooling. Homeschooling has been great for our family for many reasons and […]

Loving Directions: A Look at 1, 2 & 3 John

Throughout the books of 1st, 2nd and 3rd John we see loving directions from God to us!

Throughout the books of 1st, 2nd and 3rd John we receive directions coupled with the love of God. Love is of God and He sends us loving directions through the words of the Bible. It is for our lives that He gives us these loving directions, so we don’t get lost along the way through […]