Click below to listen to this post about purpose on the Candidly Kendra podcast: Last week I shared that I had been worried and overwhelmed and yet I had missed the point…the One Thing. “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is […]
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Why Does a Sovereign, Powerful, All-Sufficient God Want Us to Pray?
Continuing this week’s series on praying for our loved ones, here is the latest. Remember, you can listen to an audio version of the post by clicking below. God has slowed down his world and my soul is telling me that he wants his people to pray. Prayer is a strange thing, don’t you think? […]
Two-Minute Tuesday: Praying for Your Loved Ones
Click to listen to the audio version of this post: Do you ever feel like your prayers for the people you love are a little empty or dull? Asking the same things over and over starts to feel repetitive. But God encourages us to be persistent, even repetitive in prayer! (See the parable of the […]
A Home After God’s Own Heart
Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog: Twenty years ago Steve and I were packing up our belongings to begin a new adventure in Barcelona, Spain. We were bright-eyed, excited, and, to be perfectly candid, a little uneasy. Would we hate it? Would we make friends? Would this new country ever […]
When Spiritual Enthusiasm Fades Into Apathy
Yesterday I got to play outside. I walked in the sunshine! I Zoomed from the park! And when I came home, smelling like the sun, my family pulled me back out the door for a bike ride. Oh, friends, yesterday felt so good! Admittedly, for the past few days, the boys (and little men…and big […]