Unseen, Yet Deadly
My stepdaughter loves to tell the story of how her dad told her not to worry about the ongoing pain in her arm after she had experienced a fall during a high school soccer game. He assured her she was just bruised up and would feel better in a few days. Except she...
Unseen, Yet Deadly
My stepdaughter loves to tell the story of how her dad told her not to worry about the ongoing pain in her arm after she had experienced a fall during a high school soccer game. He assured her she was just bruised up and would feel better in a few days. Except she...
God’s Word Proves True
The Gift of the Word It was beautiful to study Jeremiah 29 and its surrounding biblical passages. I had to stop and thank God for His Word while I was reading. The fact that we have the Word of God to turn to, His very own breath, is a miracle. I must admit I do not...
God’s Plan in Suffering
Endure to the End Do you ever feel like the wicked prosper while the righteous suffer? Faithful Christians who know and trust God, who walk faithful to His commands, and who live out the gospel still experience all kinds of suffering, injustice, and loss this side of...
You Are of Great Value
Faithful Prayers Have you ever prayed for something for days, weeks, months, or years on end? I want you to take a moment to think of something you have prayed about that has taken a lot of faith to continue praying for. It could be about a relationship with someone...
God’s Gracious Exchange
Missing the Mark I love playing mini golf. My favorite course is in Cocoa Beach, Florida. It is beautifully designed with palm trees, caves, waterfalls, and live alligators along the way! While I like the competitive nature of playing with family or friends, I’m not...
An Indestructible Kingdom
I sat in my beach chair watching as two young girls were building a large kingdom in the sand. They worked in tandem moving buckets of sand and placing them just right to erect a glorious structure. Once they were finished, the two architects stood back and smiled at...
God’s Faithfulness Remains
Faithful in Hardship I love this C.S Lewis quote: "We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." God never...
Choosing Integrity
Understanding Integrity When I was in fourth grade, I won a “character counts'' award, which was given to one boy and one girl from each grade at the end of every month to acknowledge their good behavior. The principal chose a characteristic each month, and the...
God Has A Different Message
Daniel Through the Years Do you remember reading the story of Daniel resolving to not touch the king’s food after being taken to the palace? Or Daniel being promoted because of his divine wisdom and precise interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams? What age do you...
The Deceitfulness of Pride
Redefining Humility Pride is one of those funny things where we can actually trick ourselves into thinking we aren’t being prideful at all but humble. This has always been a struggle for me, especially when it comes to working in ministry. When our ministries seem to...
Sharing All God Has Done for Me
Everyone has some area of their life where they struggle with sin. The struggle is real! Yes…even Christians! We are often the ones who have an especially hard time with our struggle, because we are busy trying to hide it from our sisters in Christ. One of the many...
God is Able
God Alone is Worthy I wonder if, like me, you have a favorite book, movie, or place that is just that little bit more significant to you than any other? When it comes to the Old Testament, the narrative of Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and the fiery furnace, found in...
Our Reference Point of Hope
Hope of the Everlasting Kingdom I’ve recently been thinking about how being part of the body of Christ through the local church is one of the greatest gifts Jesus has given us. In the church, we find community, support, encouragement, sanctification, and strength. But...
The Perspective of Praise
Rightly Seeing God Through Praise I was speaking with some women a few days ago about praising God, and one of the things the Holy Spirit was teaching us was that praise brings us to the place where we see God for who He is. When we get to that point where we can...
Set Apart
Make a Stand for God Have you ever had to stand up for what you believe in, even if it’s different than what those around you believe? In college, I began an abiding relationship with the Lord and new convictions flooded my heart. I decided to give up things of the...
With Your Whole Being
God’s Righteous Jealousy “The Lord your God who is present among you, is a jealous God” (Deuteronomy 6:15) I found that a bit surprising the first time I read it. God can be jealous? Isn’t jealousy bad? For humans, our jealousy indicates that we are discontent with...
Heavenly Homesickness
Growing up, I always thought I would end up living in my hometown for the rest of my life. I’m a homebody at heart, and I crave the feeling of belonging in a community and making a home where my family feels anchored and stable. I wanted to live in a place where I...
From the Nations: The Gospel on Display
Every Love God Greatly study highlights one of the languages we serve – our new study, Living Faithful in a Faithless Land, includes the highlight of our Japanese branch!Join us in prayer for Rie, her team, and the women of her language and nation as you read her...
The Master Potter
As God Sees Fit When my kids were young, they loved playing with play-doh and Perler beads. I love watching the things they would create! Plates full of pasta, rainbows, super heroes… but sometimes they didn’t like their own creations. They were stuck. They would get...
Introduction to Living Faithful in a Faithless Land
Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? It may be that your values and beliefs are not appreciated. In fact, they may be actively opposed. Sister, you are not alone. This world is not our forever home. It is only a shadow of what is to come. Yet we are called to...
Living Faithful in a Faithless Land Translations
Friends, our new study translations are ready! We have the incredible privilege of announcing that our Living Faithful in a Faithless Land study is now available in SEVENTEEN languages, with more in the works!!! And our Living Faithful in a Faithless Land for Kids is...
His Presence Remains
Every season has some kind of tension. One minute, twinkling lights fill our hearts with joy, and the next a cause for deep suffering arises and we are undone. No matter where you and I find ourselves on the spectrum today, an underlying current remains: Until Jesus...
Daughters of Encouragement
Have you ever had a nickname, or been called a pet name by family or friends? Sometimes it can simply be a shortened version of your name, or perhaps it’s a name that describes your personality or aspects of your character. In Acts 4 we read of a man called...
Enduring Faith
Today’s verses are the very heart of what Love God Greatly has been in my own life, and what we strive to be and to create for the community of women around the globe. Hebrews 10:24–25 says: “And let us take thought of how to spur one another on to love and good...
Training Time
“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap. For it will overtake all who live on the face of the whole earth. But stay alert at all...
