Category: Christian Living

Christian Meditation: What Is It?

Christian Meditation – what is it? It’s NOT guided imagery, visualizations, out-of-body experiences, subconscious suggestion or mental manipulation. Christian Meditation is very different from Eastern meditation. It requires a fully engaged mind, NOT an “empty mind.” Christian Meditation is NOT an altered state of consciousness, “contemplative prayer” (Lectio Divina, “Centering Prayer” or “spiritual formation”) —……
Thanks For No Spanks

Inspirational Ink: Insight for a Woman’s Life by Tammi Ector Fisse As my children and I were on the way out the door of our child care center, one of my teachers told them, “Be nice to your mama. She’s sick.” The fact that I was couldn’t have been more apparent, but by the grace……
The Battle of My Life

by Melinda Colleton On September 1, 2010 I put my 2 daughters to bed; they would awake the next day and make their way through the first day of school. I had put them to bed many times in their lives before then, but it had been five years since I was able to watch……
How Can I Be Thankful?

by Karin S. Syren, The Vision Coach “Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God.”……
The Process

by Tanisha Y. Armstrong Satan has never been accused of doing his job poorly. Exactly the opposite has been proven true about him. The same cunning ways he used in the Garden of Eden still work today. He clouds our minds with questions about what God has said. We entertain his hints about what God……
Famines, Feasts and Locusts

Inspirational Ink: Insight for a Woman’s Life by Tammi Ector Fisse Now that I’m stepmom to three huge, perpetually famished boys, I have an idea what it’s like to have a plague of locusts swarm through feasting on everything in sight. Grocery day usually results in a feeding frenzy that leaves me feeling like Old……
All These Things Shall Be Added

by Karin Syren A gift is worn on the outer man; an inheritance is planted deep inside – like a seed. Gene Edwards1 An inheritance can be defined as consisting of title, goods, or property received by right of succession or by beneficent endowment, passed on by direction of the rightful owner only at the……
Your Royal Wedding

by Kimberly Davidson When you were a little girl, were you mesmerized with the stories of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White as I was? I frequently imagined what it would be like to be rescued by a handsome prince and live happily ever after in elegant gowns. Then I grew up and witnessed the……
Pursue Your Passion with Faith, Love, and Endurance

by Chere Williams Lately, I’ve been thinking long and hard about God’s will and purpose for my life. There are days when it seems crystal clear and I’m certain of my spiritual gifts; I feel confident and appear to be making great strides and progress. Then there are those days when confusion clouds my vision;……
Pink Collar Girls

Inspirational Ink: Insight for a Woman’s Life by Tammi Ector Fisse Recently my work world got rocked. The assistant director at the childcare center where I’m the administrator informed me that she’d accepted another position. Though not surprised, I was stunned when she hit me with the news that the day of her notice and……