Upon my entry in the world of faith, the discovery that women were considered second class citizens left me without words. However, over the course of now 30 years, God's word has confirmed just the opposite. God cannot be put in a box. Neither can His plan for His purposed women be put in a box despite centuries of attempts. For instance, the Samaritan woman was the 'first' evangelist about the arrival of the Messiah, Jesus. In Luke 24, a woman, or women, appointed by Jesus, were the 'first' messengers that Jesus was risen, as He had promised. Both situations included women...
A customizable 30-day prayer calendar for your next event! Last year my husband and I joined a team of other marriage ministry leaders to create our church's first ever retreat for marriage mentors. We called it Fill Up, Pour Out. One of the elements of our planning was incorporating prayer. We created a 30-day prayer calendar, modeled after one we found online. For the 30 days before our event, we had a team of people praying the same prayers daily. Some of us added fasting days once a week. God honored our dedication to making this His work. He showed up big time! The event...
Posted by Deb Potts on 01/16/2018
A true-life story of being Shattered and Broken, but by God's Grace, Forgiven and Whole. I do a blog called at www.doinglifetogether.com Please email me with any subject you would like to talk about, send me your story, are you going through something you need advice on, please email me at hopeknowsyourname@gmail.com follow my blog Doing life together. ...
Posted by Christie Musso Bruce on 01/04/2018
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a 24-hour, toll-free, confidential suicide prevention hotline available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. By dialing 1-800-273-TALK (8255), the call is routed to the nearest crisis center in our national network of more than 150 crisis centers. The Lifeline’s national network of local crisis centers provides crisis counseling and mental health referrals day and night. No matter what problems you are dealing with, we want to help you find a reason to keep living. By calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255) you’ll...
Are you struggling with depression, addictions, failed relationships? Come along with Forshia Ross in this continuation of No Secondhand Rose as she searches for her promised land. In The Wilderness Shall Blossom like the Rose, Forshia reveals flashbacks from her trauma to set the stage for personal encounters with God that gave her direction. She parallels her journey with the story of the Israelites' rebellion in the wilderness as they are led to the Promised Land. She weaves their story with hers in order to illustrate what needs to happen in our lives for us to reach our promised land....
Posted by Forshia Ross on 07/28/2017
Rhonda Stoppe has been a pastor’s wife for over 20 years, so she gets it! IMAGINE if you had your own PERSONA MENTOR to help you in this unique ministry to which God has called you! I SLEEP WITH THE PASTOR is just that…a personal friend who understands the joys and conflicts of being a ministry marriage––and raising ministry kids! This book is broken up into 52 weeks of devotionals, as Rhonda encourages the reader to take some time the day before her congregation meets to get her heart right with the Lord, her husband, her children and with the people...
Posted by Rhonda Stoppe on 04/28/2017
FROM THE AUTHOR: I love LOVE STORIES don’t you? In If My Husband Would Change I’d Be Happy I laughed and I cried as I wrote about the love stories of people like: -Charles & Susanna Spurgeon -Priscilla & Aquila - As well as what historians observed about the deep love between The Apostle Peter and his wife. And I am confident I shared way too many intimate details about my own marriage with the love-of-my-life Steve Stoppe! You’re gonna learn so much about how men think from Steve as he wrote at the end of each chapter a section called: From...
Posted by Rhonda Stoppe on 04/28/2017
Prepare yourself for the journey of a lifetime, because you are being positioned to encounter the presence of God in your personal quiet time. In the Old Testament before the Israelites crossed the Jordan River into their Promised Land, the Lord told Joshua to take 12 stones from the middle of the very waters that were separating them from their freedom. The people were to erect a memorial with these large boulders. The Lord explained to Joshua that these stones would cause people to ask what they were, and give opportunity to tell future generations how the God of Israel delivered them from slavery...
Posted by Beth Kinder on 08/22/2016
