Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.(Mark 12:30–31, NIV) Although I’m still recovering from the intensity—the pressure, preparation, and joy—of leading last weekend’s women’s retreat, I’m fully aware that the world hasn’t paused. Life has moved on. I’veContinue Reading
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15 NKJV) I spent this past weekend at my mom’s mother’s family reunion at a state park near St. Louis, Missouri. My grandmother was the second of six children born to a poor farm family in East-Central Illinois in the veryContinue Reading
Yahweh is my strength and my wraparound shield. When I fully trust in you, help is on the way. I jump for joy and burst forth with ecstatic, passionate praise! I will sing songs of what you mean to me! (Psalm 28:7 TPT) Lately, my Bible Recap readings have focusedContinue Reading
“Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they exist, and were created and brought into being.” (Revelation 4:11 AMP) Yesterday we celebrated our son’s marriage. Today, let us pray for all marriagesContinue Reading
[Please join me in praying for children, families, and our future on Thursdays this year.] “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (2 Corinthians 13:14 NIV) “A 4-year-old American girl was among 14 Israeli hostages and three foreign hostagesContinue Reading
[Please join me in praying for children, families, and our future on Thursdays this year.] Let us pray the following over our families today: God, Thank you for the beautiful young lives you give parents to steward and for the grace and joy that is upon parenting when you areContinue Reading
[Please join me in praying for children, families, and our future on Thursdays this year.] “Some find their strength in their weapons and wisdom, but my miracle-deliverance can never be won by men. Our boast is in Yahweh our God, who makes us strong and gives us victory! Our enemiesContinue Reading
[Please join me in praying for children, families, and our future on Thursdays this year.] “Don’t you see that children are God’s best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy?” (Psalm 127:3 MSG) Let us pray the following over our families today: God, Thank you that you call eachContinue Reading
[Please join me in praying for children, families, and our future on Thursdays this year.] Let us pray and declare the following over our families today: Loving God, Thank you for being the One who builds marriages, families, and households. Thank you for giving us your Word to guide usContinue Reading
[Please join me in praying for children, families, and our future on Thursdays this year.] “For you, Lord, have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.” (Psalm 116:8-9 NIV) Many families today struggle with trauma, drug addictions, abuse, grief,Continue Reading