How would YOU like the newest album Salvation’s Tide Is Rising (releasing on January 29, 2016) from the Passion Conference and sixstepsrecords/Capitol CMG? Leave a comment on why you would like to receive a copy and my family will pick the answer that moves us the most. We’ll pick a winner Saturday, January 16 by…
Book Description: Part of a new brand in the Zondervan family, The Plans I Have for YOU! is an illustrated 90-day devotional written by bestselling children’s book author Amy Parker and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton, teaching and inspiring kids to dream about their future, to focus on faith, love and joy and recognize that…
This year my goal is to share surrender stories, encouragement from myself and others that will encourage you to surrender the good, the bad, and—maybe one day—the chocolate. Last week Sarah Hamaker shared her story about parenting expectations. Alexis A. Goring let us in on her journey about surrendering refined sugar. My story is about…
Julie’s Note: Throughout 2016 I will have guest bloggers sharing their surrender stories. Today, Alexis A. Goring shares her sweet surrender. Sweet Surrender A guest post by Alexis A. Goring Sugar. Refined sugar. It was my solace, my relief, my healing from emotional trauma. Since age 16, sugar had been my source of…
Surrendering Your Parenting Expectations By Sarah Hamaker What are your parenting expectations? Whether you’ve thought about this or not, we all have our own hopes for our child rearing and by extension, our kids. It might be that our children behave like little angels in public. Maybe it’s to have kids who express…
I confess, when I pray for the theme God has for me, I don’t push it on my family. This is my conviction, and if they feel the same, I believe He has a word/theme for them. But at the same time, when I receive a theme, I watch it play out in my family….