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Salvation through the Red Sea
The Exodus story, when God parts the sea and the Israelites cross though on dry ground, is a pretty familiar story for most of us. At the end of the story, in chapter 15, Moses and the people sing a song to the Lord. They’ve just experienced this powerful deliverance, so singing a song of…
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God WILL Deliver
This semester in our women’s Bible study at my church we are studying the book of Exodus, and I have had the privilege of teaching a few of these lessons. What I want to share today comes from Exodus 6, after Moses has encountered God in the burning bush, been commissioned, and sent back to…
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The Fruit of Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away…
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Community for the New Year
Happy New Year! January is a time when many people (myself included) like to reevaluate and set goals for themselves. But too often (and this is probably a product of our Western culture) we can be very individualistic in this process. We ask questions like, what do I want out of this new year? What…
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Word of the Year 2024
This will be my 10th year of having a word for the year, rather than resolutions. I heard about this idea of choosing a word to focus on for the next year during my first year living as a missionary in Honduras, and it has since become an annual practice. If you are not familiar with…
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The Christmas Story: From Sarah to Mary
Matthew begins his telling of the Christmas story with a genealogy that most people probably skip right over. He starts with a summary: “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1). The family line was traced through the males, but for us ladies, I want…
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Christmas Reading and Prayer Calendar
If you used the prayer calendar I created for November, I hope you’ve enjoyed it and it has brought you closer to God! (And if you missed it, you can find it here and use it any month!) For December I have created another calendar that includes alternating days of reading from the Christmas story…
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Breath Prayer
Have you heard of breath prayer? These are typically short, one or two sentence prayers rooted in Scripture that you can focus on and pray as you simply inhale and exhale. To be totally honest, I am not sure where this idea came from originally, or when I first learned about it, but it is…
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The Holy Spirit’s Role in Prayer
Have you ever had a time where you wanted to pray for something, but just didn’t have the words? Or maybe you weren’t sure if the thing you wanted and were praying for was really what God wanted for you. I can think of countless examples in my own life that fit these two scenarios,…
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A Month of Prayer
This past month a did a prayer challenge from Val Marie Paper that helped my prayer life get a little refresh. Her prompts had me praying for different things in different ways, and I want to keep that prayer momentum going! So I created a prayer calendar of my own for the month of November,…
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