By Rondi Lauterbach ‘Tis the season to be overwhelmed and the countdown to Christmas is going strong. It’s not only the shopping and baking and decorating and wrapping and shipping, it’s that we can’t hit the pause button on the rest of life.  I just got off the phone with my daughter. She’s overwhelmed with...

By Courtney Reissig Editor’s Note: This is the second post in a three part series on hope for the holidays. You can read the first post here. Christmas is an exciting and joyous time. There is so much joy brought into our lives this time of year—parties, family, lights, decorations, and even shopping for presents. It’s the...

By Trillia Newbell Paula Hendricks has been learning what it means to be needy for God rather than needy for the attention of boys. In this Q&A learn how God helped her fight her boy-craziness and about her new book, Confessions of a Boy-Crazy Girl: On Her Journey from Neediness to Freedom. Why did you...

By Katie Van Dyke (Editor’s Note: Over the next few Thursday’s we will feature articles related to sexual intimacy. Today is the second post of our series. You can read the first one here. Please note that there will be a variety of perspectives shared within this series.) It is no secret that sexual impurity...

By Courtney Reissig We live in a culture that celebrates productivity and efficiency. We like to see results. We like to get things done. We like when we accomplish something big. It makes us feel important. At least it does for me. But here is something I’ve learned in my first year as a mommy....

By Trillia Newbell It can be easy to think that sex is something we thought up.  It’s all over our televisions, in our magazines and books. We are in a sex saturated culture. And it doesn’t surprise me because sex wasn’t our idea, it was God’s.  In the beginning, when God created Adam and Eve...