February 2009
Posted on 02.27.09 by Mindy Kroesche
Topics: True Woman Sightings
From one part of the country to another, the True Woman Movement is growing! One of the latest reports of how the message is spreading comes from the beautiful state of Wyoming.
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Posted on 02.26.09 by Mary Kassian
Topics: Relationship with God
We think that we’ll get more out of life and relationships if we demand our rights and maintain control. But the Bible teaches that we get a lot more blessing when we trust God and do things his way.
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Posted on 02.25.09 by Kimberly Wagner
Topics: Relationship with God
Through painful experience, I've learned this principle of yielding control: whoever or whatever I most frequently yield to becomes my master.
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Posted on 02.24.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationship with God
I don’t know about you, but the one thing that consistently holds me back from all-out surrender to God is fear. Fear that He won’t give me what I desire most.
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Posted on 02.23.09 by Kimberly Wagner
Topics: Relationship with God
My “act of surrender” was more like a little boy whose mother keeps insisting he sit down in his highchair. When he finally unlocks his knees and plops into the seat, his glare tells the real story, “I may be sitting down on the outside–but I'm still standing up on the inside!”
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Posted on 02.20.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: True Woman Sightings
Tell us how you--like Twila--are spreading the True Woman Movement, and register to win a True Woman Tote Bag and
Brokenness, Holiness, Surrender Trilogy!
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Posted on 02.19.09 by Kimberly Wagner
Topics: Relationship with God
On this most bitter of nights, we watch Christ struggle . . . Three times He lifts the same request, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me." His agony is evident . . .
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Posted on 02.18.09 by Mary Kassian
Topics: Relationship with God
Ironically, the woman who digs in her heels often surrenders more than the one who bows her knee . . .
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Posted on 02.17.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationships with Others
I, too, have experienced the heartache that can come from choosing to love. Yesterday I wrestled with this question: Where’s the joy in this whole thing? Shouldn’t there be joy?
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Posted on 02.16.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationships with Others
Jesus’ answer just raised more questions for me. Why did He include the second commandment when the man just asked for the greatest commandment? And most of all, what does it mean that all the Law and the Prophets
depend on these two commandments?
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Posted on 02.13.09 by Mary Kassian
Topics: Relationships with Others
This past summer, at my son’s wedding, I found myself reminding him of the words my mother spoke to me at my wedding, and many times since: “Always remember that love is a choice.”
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Posted on 02.12.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationship with God
How's your "love life"?
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Posted on 02.11.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationships with Others
It all happened one day when Simon the Pharisee invited Jesus to a dinner party at his house. Jesus came, but from the moment he stepped in the door, it was obvious how “welcome” he really was . . .
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Posted on 02.10.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationship with God
Who or what is competing with God for first place in your life? Dr. David Powlison’s questions will help you find the answer—if you’re brave and committed enough to probe the depths of your heart for the answers.
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Posted on 02.09.09 by Kimberly Wagner
Topics: Relationships with Others
I instructed him to get up off the floor. He looked at me in wide-eyed amazement, and with total sincerity replied, “I'm not on the floor!”
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Posted on 02.06.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationship with God
"Do I have desires? Yes. Do I have God-given abilities? Yes. Has God provided opportunity to use them right now? No. So, I wait on the Lord, rejoice, pray, and give thanks . . . and actually mean it now."
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Posted on 02.05.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationship with God
"I'd been involved in some capacity of 'formal' ministry since 1980. And then, it all stopped. At first I was excited to see what was 'next.' . . . Then, nothing, except the same everydayness of life: walk the dog, feed the cat, count the new blooms on the geranium plant . . . you get the picture. I felt very useless, and worst of all, very alone."
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Posted on 02.04.09 by Mary Kassian
Topics: Relationship with God
Everyone has a creed. Even those who say they don’t believe in creeds have a creed. What exactly is a creed?
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Posted on 02.03.09 by Kimberly Wagner
Topics: Relationship with God
Do you find it curious—as I do—that we have to be
instructed to love God?
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Posted on 02.02.09 by Paula Hendricks
Topics: Relationships with Others, Relationship with God
This month, we will be focusing on . . .
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