Category: Christian Living

The Measure of a Moment

Inspirational Ink: Insight for a Woman’s Life by Tammi Ector Fisse I became a mom at the ripe old age of twenty-one. I knew I was a young mother, but I didn’t know how much I didn’t know. I became a mom the second and third times in my mid-thirties. Yes, became a mom. Thirteen……
How to Prepare Your Teenager for Godly Relationships

by Ade D’Almeida These days, Godly relationships seem as extinct as dinosaurs. Every time your teenager turns on the television or reads a magazine, they are inundated with the latest celebrity relationship news. These secular influences treat dating like a hobby, and during the impressionable teen years, it is important to help your teenager realize……
The Backbone of A Christian Mom

by Tara McClenahan Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be established. Proverbs 16:3 NASB Being committed as a Christian parent is simply the steadfast determination to raise our children based on Biblical principles for them to come to a knowledge of God and His Son and to live for His glory….…
An Unlikely Guardian Angel

by Sheila Appleby Williams In 1994 I was a struggling single mom working as an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles. My days were stressful from the moment the first shrill and demanding bell rang. However, I didn’t learn the real meaning of stress until my daughter turned 14 and her raging hormones incited a……
Gabby’s Way

Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it. –Proverbs 22:6 NAS With seven grown children, I generally see them in group settings, so it is rare and very special to have the opportunity to spend some time alone with any of them….…
Decisive Women

by Dr. Sheila Spencer Faith went on trial last year. It seems as if every woman was tested, some beyond human strength. All across America, thousands of women from every ethnic back ground and social status shared in some pain which ranged from infidelity in the white house to the church house. We witnessed women……
Accepting My Pesky Imperfections

by Daphne Eilein Landers I spoke. She took notes. Toward the end of our session, she asked, “What is the most important thing you said today?” I said many things in that hour-and-a-half. But to pick one and have to repeat it? I pondered her question out loud: “What is the most important thing I……
The Aching Void

by Karin Syren “Nature will not permit a vacuum.It will be filled with something.Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill…” —George Washington Carver We are all daily employed in filling the vacuums of human need. It drives us to fill our stomachs with food and drink, to fill our……
Holes In Our Hearts Have Been Nailed To The Cross

Inspirational Ink: Insight for a Woman’s Life by Tammi Ector Fisse Sitting in chapel with my sixth graders, I was thrilled that for once they weren’t fidgeting, but were still, listening intently to the devotion being presented by the father of one of their classmates. With his ability to capture and hold the attention of……
Come out of Hiding

by Trudy Doleman You knew the day would come when you had to shed the coat, hat, boots and gloves. You ignored the signs that it was time to start thinking about putting away the heavy sweatshirts and sweat pants. Now here it is April and you cannot hide any longer. Everyone will see the……