Category: Blog
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Ribbons and Mints
What the State Fair Can Teach Us About God’s Word (This is a re-post of a Free Grace Women blog originally published a few years ago. We hope that readers old and new will be encouraged by it.) A few years ago, I got the chance to work for the state fair in South Carolina.…
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God’s Big Important Job For You
As a stay-at-home mom… I often feel like I don’t have any important kingdom work to accomplish. I’m just stuck here at the house, changing diapers, and trying to puzzle out how to get a one-year-old to eat solid food. This is while others are out there sharing the gospel, doing ministry, and changing the…
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Rewarded For Eternity
In the days that followed my husband’s suicide I had a million decisions to make some small but most were hard and even life-changing. The decision to move immediately was one of the easier decisions to make but it required some maneuvering. My husband and I had been 4 days away from closing on a…
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Blue Plate Special
I remember when I began registering for items before I got married. There was both giddy excitement and awkwardness. It wasn’t my birthday or Christmas and people were giving me most everything I wished for, It just felt strange to me. My favorite thing that we received, still today, is my colorful Fiestaware. I chose…
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A Thrill Of Hope
I think it would be an understatement to say that 2020 has been quite the year. While this year has gone differently than any of us planned, I hope you can look back and see God’s hand at work in your life throughout it all. This Christmas season may look different from years past. We…
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The Perfect Christmas Plan
My husband’s birthday is one week before Christmas. One of our first holiday seasons together as newlyweds, we were having dinner with his family celebrating his birthday early in December. As everyone was nearly finished eating, his brother announced he thought we should just go ahead and celebrate Christmas together…that night. My incredibly cool, easy-going,…
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The Secret Ingredient For Peace
I love watching The Great British Baking Show. Baking is relaxing for me, but watching other people bake beautiful treats I’ve never heard of whilst discussing the process in English accents is even more relaxing. Each week the bakers are presented with a technical challenge. One week the technical challenge was to make an angel…
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Is There a Wrong Way to Study the Bible?
“What does this verse mean to you?” I have been in numerous Bible studies where this question has been asked. But is this really the question we should be asking when studying God’s Word? If not, what kind of questions should we be asking?
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Combating Jealousy
The thought, “Is that what 34 is supposed to look like?” went surging through my thoughts as I stared at the Instagram photo before me. The influencer had just turned 34 and naturally had to post about how gorgeous she looked on her birthday. I turned 34 recently, and instead of looking like a mature woman,…
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The Pornography Battle in Your Marriage
My husband told me he wanted to stop looking at porn but told me he needed my help.
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