• When Life Feels Out of Control

    Bible Study Tools, Devotional, Guest Post

    When Life Feels Out of Control *This post contains affiliate links. It doesn’t cost you anything additional, but my family is blessed if you use my link!  (Excerpt taken from Anchored In: Experience a Power-Full Life in a Problem-Filled World * by Micah Maddox) Kneeling on my kitchen floor surrounded by dropped cheerios from yesterdays breakfast seemed like the place I always landed. My knees pressed to the cold tile floor, hands gripping my Bible, tears dripping from my trembling chin…

  • The Joy Bible Study Method

    Bible Study Tools, Devotional, Faith

    The Joy Bible Study Method  Joy. Its a choice we make. A place we want to live. Joy is sometimes missing though. I know it is missing from my life. Like a friend who seems lost and gone. So many scriptures talk about Christians having joy, but really, the Christians seem to be the least joyful people. My sweet Liana Joy taught me so much about joy. And she’s still teaching me. When we named her “joy” it was just…

  • How to Find Freedom from Fear

    Bible Study Tools, Devotional, Faith, Psalm

    How do I free myself from fear? I didn’t know the fear building up until one night I sat shaking on the couch. My husband and I were talking about the future, and it seemed my heart was torn in two. I knew I trusted God, but in those moments He felt so far. Where was God in the middle of the unknowns? We have our son, and his medical needs are so much less severe than our daughters. We…

  • When Fear and Faith Live Together

    Bible Study Tools, Devotional, Faith, Prayer

    When Fear and Faith Live Together Last year I sat at my dining room table during nap time with a friend. We talked about fear. Her dreams were dust in the ground. Literally. Burying a baby can make fear a permanent fixture in a heart. I struggled with words. We cried together, remembering a little boy less than a year old.  If I had only known her through social media, text messages, or from conversations in public, I would have…