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May 2010

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Leading you to the oasis of God’s Word

Posted on 05.31.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Relationship with God

Here at Revive Our Hearts, we think that anything to get you memorizing God’s Word is a good thing.

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True Woman Videos: The Gift of Singleness

Posted on 05.28.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Singleness

When you think or talk about singleness, do you use words like “celebrate,” “delicious freedom,” and “gift”?

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Girls Gone Wise 3: Are you a Wily Coyote?

Posted on 05.27.10 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian
Topics: Womanhood, Singleness

The image of Wile E. Coyote obsessively scheming to catch the Roadrunner fits the description of the Wild Thing to a T.

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I have an early morning date!

Posted on 05.26.10 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: Relationship with God

I have an early morning date and every time I remind myself that “Tomorrow is the day!” excited tingles hint of the thrill it will bring.

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“Lessons Learned in the Dark”

Posted on 05.25.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Relationship with God, True Woman Conferences

"Blindness is one of those words like cancer, like divorce, like autism, like bankruptcy that we just don’t ever expect to hear, and we certainly don’t expect it to become our word . . ."

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Girls Gone Wise 2: Deadened by the Drip Drip Drip

Posted on 05.25.10 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian

Popular mass media perpetually drips messages about gender, sex, and relationships into our minds. The trouble is, it often promotes false or counterfeit images of what womanhood is all about. 

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Three cubicles, four bosses, five lessons

Posted on 05.21.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Workfront

Five years ago, this cocky, over-eager college graduate arrived thinking I would help Revive Our Hearts minister to women. Ha! Turns out I was the one who was mentored and helped by this ministry.

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Girls Gone Wise 1: Have you been swept off your feet?

Posted on 05.20.10 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian
Topics: Womanhood

Did you know that you can tell the difference between a Girl-Gone-Wild and a Girl-Gone-Wise by looking at her feet?

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The Not-So-Golden Anniversary of the Pill

Posted on 05.19.10 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian
Topics: Womanhood, With Your Kids

The pill was not a benign medical advance. It was introduced to advance a particular worldview and philosophy. And women, en masse, have swallowed it.

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Girls Gone Wise Intro: A Tale of a Girl Gone Wild

Posted on 05.18.10 by Mary Kassian | Twitter: @MaryKassian
Topics: Womanhood

The Girl-Gone-Wild could be the girl next door, your best friend, or the lady sitting next to you at church . . . she may even be you!

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Running Scared

Posted on 05.17.10 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: Relationship with God

Running frantically in the opposite direction, they attempted to push their extremely large bodies through the small six-by-six opening of the hog-wire fence bordering the property . . .

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Are you a fellow blogger?

Posted on 05.14.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: True Woman Conferences

Do you have a blog? A cooking blog, a travel blog, even a family blog? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

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Kim on “Voices”: A Call to the Counter-Revolution

Posted on 05.13.10 by Kimberly Wagner | Twitter: @KimberlyWagner7
Topics: True Woman Conferences

“We are called to fight the powers of darkness in the name, the power, and the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, joining with God in a great rescue operation for the sake of His great Kingdom."

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Carrie on "Voices": Why is prayer so hard?

Posted on 05.12.10 by Carrie Gaul

If we’re honest, prayer is a struggle at times.

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Mary Ann on "Voices": Whimpering to Jesus

Posted on 05.11.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Relationship with God

"Recently I had my fourth kidney stone. Have you ever had one? The pain is unrelenting, consuming, and unresponsive to any 'over-the-counter' pain meds. It's a paralyzing, helpless, hopeless kind of feeling.  My initial response to the pain was to focus inwardly and whimper to Jesus for relief."

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Karen on "Voices": Weathering Storms of Loneliness and Life

Posted on 05.10.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678

". . . Her departure ushered in a season of loneliness that I hadn’t experienced since my college years. My stomach still tightens when I remember those early years at Kansas University."

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Erin on “Voices”: A Momma After God’s Own Heart

Posted on 05.07.10 by Erin Davis | Twitter: @ErinGraffiti
Topics: With Your Kids

Motherhood gives us feelings of fuzzy blankets and baby rattles and toys to line the crib. But motherhood is actually one of God’s refining fires. The reality of motherhood is that it’s a place to learn surrender, letting go, trusting, and believing that God is God.

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Laura on "Voices": I can be useful to Him?!

Posted on 05.06.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Womanhood

"That I could be useful to God in my circle of influence was beyond my comprehension . . ."

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Dawn on “Voices”: A Conversation After Swim Class

Posted on 05.05.10 by Dawn Wilson | Twitter: @HeartChoices
Topics: Womanhood

It didn’t take long for an opportunity to share some of what I learned with a woman after a swim class. Leslie’s mom was a Feminist, and Leslie had obviously absorbed much of the Feminist philosophy into her life. A lesbian in a relationship that she admitted was “not satisfying,” Leslie said she didn't think she could relate to the biblical model of womanhood.

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Holly on “Voices”: What is God DOING?!

Posted on 05.04.10 by Holly Elliff
Topics: Relationship with God

If you are breathing, at some point there will be a moment in your life when you have absolutely NO idea what the Lord is doing, why He doesn’t seem to be following your life plan, and whether or not He is worthy of your trust.

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Liz on "Voices": Biblical womanhood is for singles, too!

Posted on 05.03.10 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: Womanhood

"I am no less of a woman in my singleness, and when I embrace God’s purpose in my singleness rather than resenting it, I am able to display trust in a sovereign God to the world around me. This type of trust will reveal much about God’s character to the world around me: 'Therefore, a single woman who lives with that final day in view, and finds Christ to be her all in all here, says something very powerfully and very clearly about her Savior.'”

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