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…
What Pro-Life Really Means—Even if you’re not heading to Washington, D.C., January 21–22 for the March for Life event, block out some time those two days because you’ll be able to attend some of the events in the comfort of your own home. Focus on the Family and The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission will host…
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…
Revive—As we reach that finish line called 2015, I thought I’d take this week and summarize what I learned this year through the word God gave as the theme: Revive. I chewed on this word a lot and I never anticipated the journey it took me on. I thought today I’d share how revive affected…
Clear your schedules January 21–22, 2016, because Focus on the Family and The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission will host Evangelicals for Life, a major pro-life conference held in conjunction with the March for Life event. The event will take place in Washington, D.C., at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. Evangelicals from across…
I mentioned Saturday that I’m being very intentional in 2016 about how to best get my Surrender Issues and Chocolate messages to the masses. One way is subscribing to the sweet, weekly encouragement delivered straight to your inbox that will start your week right. It’s the Julie Arduini’s Sunday’s Surrender and Chocolate, a short message…