Every home can be beautiful when it is focused on honoring God and loving others. Questions to think about as you frame your home’s routines and fill it with the things that reflect your values.
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The Curriculum of Home
Home is so much more than the dwelling we live in. It is a place of ministry to those who live here as well as those who visit. As older women, may we faithfully teach the good work of homemaking with an eternal vision in mind.
Summary Post: Time Management for Intentional Living
A summary post for the process I use to evaluate and plan my time to live my part of God’s Story with intentionality and purpose.
Working Out Your Salvation: 8 Ideas to Plan Your Days
Planning is the first half. However, working out is where things actually start changing. Eight insights on helping you work out your own salvation faithfully in the hours and minutes of life.
Learning From Our Time Audit
Doing a time audit is the first step. In today’s post, let’s pause a moment to ponder what we can learn from it and celebrate the good God has already done.
Do a Time Audit: Know Where You Are
Doing a time audit will help us with our intentions by giving us a clear picture of our habits and reminds us of our limits. It’s humbling, but also the starting point towards living out God’s Story.
An Introduction to Christian Meditation
Meditation is a buzzword these days that rightly raises red flags. What is it and why should we practice it? Part 1 of a 3-part series.
Breathe: Two Disciplines to Oxygenate Your Spiritual Life
Just as inhaling and exhaling form the unseen pattern of our daily lives, so we need to learn to inhale Scripture and exhale prayer as a pattern in our spiritual lives. Here are some suggestions on how to form this core rhythm to sustain and empower your communion with God.
10 Stages of My Planning Process
How to plan for the next year so that you live out God’s Story each day.
Mend the Roof Before It Rains: How Good Times Can Prepare Us For the Hard Times
The good times can be God’s way to allow us to prepare for the hard times yet unknown. Three tips on how to make the most of these high points in our lives to shore up for the future.
From Self-Care to Stewardship
Reflections on the self-care terminology.
How to Do a Heart Check With God
We all need regular physical checkups. Are you getting regular spiritual checkups as well? Here are some ways to let God evaluate your heart.
Gone Fishin'
While I’m on vacation, here are a few posts for you to catch up on!
What to Look For in Wise Counsel
Connecting the dots is not something we do alone. We need God and we need His people. What can wise counsel do for us and who do we look for?
Forging New Patterns with Spiritual Habits
Forging godliness doesn’t happen with a spiritual zap from heaven but through spiritual habits. In love, faithfully practicing these habits forge the new patterns and pathways of character that enable us to honor God as we desire.
How to Cultivate the Art of Everyday Worship
Connecting the dots includes worshipping God in the everyday through abiding, keeping an eternal perspective, and serving Him in the ordinary.
How is Your Garden Growing?
As spring is officially here, how are you doing weeding your garden from sin? This post explores key components to uprooting sin and replanting righteousness.
How to Develop a Personal Liturgy
A liturgy develops a path for us to follow day by day to keep us connected to God. Instead of being a restrictive straitjacket, we can thoughtfully design a rule of life that fits us and helps us stay focused on developing our life of faith.
How Routines Demonstrate God's Faithfulness--and How to Write Yours
Our faithfulness, not our grand gestures of service, is what God praises (Matt 25:21). Routines help us to faithfully show up and serve Him in the ordinary tasks of life.