If you are experiencing a season of suffering, you will find hope, humor, and healing throughout the pages of Beauty Beyond the Thorns: Discovering Gifts in Suffering . Modern-day stories of suffering are paralleled with biblical accounts that will both enrich your understanding of the Bible and provide hope for your personal journey. We all need healing, whether experiencing physical or emotional pain from the thorns of divorce, job loss, grief, addiction, disability, or financial troubles. When we follow Jesus, God offers us gifts such as joy, hope, compassion, and mercy to help us...
Posted by Darci Steiner on 10/30/2021
During this interview with Marnie and guest, Stacey Wynn, you’ll meet God on the wrestling mat to deconstruct your journey in faith as we discover: Stacey’s definition of “deconstruction” and why it’s critical after seasons of devastation.How to make God your True North, and why you need Him as your compass.Why wrestling with God is fine, expected, and even foundational. What deconstruction looked like in the Bible. (Paul’s experience on the Damascus Road)How God empowers and equips women to further His Kingdom. Speaker, author, coach, corporate leader,...
Posted by Stacey Wynn, MDIV, PCC on 07/15/2021
During "Finding Joy In A Messy Life: Living with & Loving a Depressed Husband" you’ll discover: • The one foundational truth that will never let you down. • 5 keys to staying sane while living with insanity. • The most important mindset for making it through the roughest seasons. • 3 verses to keep in your purse (and on your heart). • The most shockingly sad realities about this type of journey, and how to forgive. • What to do when you cannot figure out what to do. • 4 insider secret...
Posted by Carole Leathem on 06/21/2021
During this hour with Marnie and guest, Jill Richardson, you’ll discover Communication Strategies for Speakers including: • How to lock in the longevity and relevance of your ministry and messages. • Communication strategies for a sound bite world. • Interactive techniques that work with women. • How to narrow down your message to maximize your impact. • What to do when confusion, overwhelm or lack clarity define the day (or season). • Identifying and addressing the #1 cause of communication failure. Dr. Jill...
Posted by Jill Richardson on 06/14/2021
The reality of grief...The sustaining grace of our Father...And the power of God to heal, restore, and bring joy once again. Loss can manifest in many ways, shapes, and forms; loss of hope, purpose, or vision; or loss through tragedy, illness, separation, miscarriage, divorce, abuse, abortion; and simply the loss of “what could have been” through the various storms of life. Her Heart Is Torn shares a powerful message of hope and healing with those who have been impacted through the difficulty of loss. Stephanie Henderson’s journey through personal loss is real, relatable, and...
Posted by Stephanie Henderson on 07/29/2020
Table Mentoring: A Simple Guide to Coming Alongside will help you begin sharing with another believer what God continues to teach you. We all know someone older or younger than ourselves, and God wants us mentoring and being mentored at any age. We teach another what we've learned at the feet of Jesus so that they grow up in Jesus. That’s the goal. Not only for fun—though it often is; not only to make a new friend—which usually happens. Mentoring, at a table or not, needs to be part of every believer’s life. We know God so that we can help another to know God....
Posted by Sue Donaldson on 02/27/2020
When God gives you a dream, it doesn’t come with a manual. At first, the excitement and longing for the dream can drive you. Yet if you do not understand God’s process of preparing the dreamer for the dream and the true meaning of the seeds He plants, you can travel a disappointing, discouraging, and confusing path. Dreams inspired by God require intense seasons of refinement, perseverance, and character development and whatever you must endure to reach His dream for you is outweighed by the glory of being changed by God in the most uncommon ways. Surely dreams are worth more...
Posted by Shana Strange on 08/09/2019
bOuNcE rock your comebacks by michelle rooney Setbacks are inherent to life. But comebacks are up to you. The effective use of comebacks to infuse your life with freedom, wisdom, and power is a skill you can acquire. Allowing God to intervene on your behalf is also paramount to that process. Michelle's book is a valuable tool to help drive you to that outcome. Personal vignettes and abundant Scripture all work together to guide you to your best comebacks and best life. It will provoke you to introspection, inspiration, wisdom, action, and faith. **AVAILABLE NOW on AMAZON &...
Posted by Michelle Rooney on 04/29/2019
Jesus is the reason for the season! It’s as easy as A-B-C! Pairing scenes from the first Christmas with the traditions of today, C is for Christmas brings together all the very best elements of the season into a delightful read-aloud that families will turn to year after year. The gang’s all here—Mary and Joseph, the three kings, the shepherds, and the big man in red—but the focus is clearly on Jesus. On every page, this beautiful book witnesses to the great love that came into the world on the night a precious baby was born. ...
Posted by Michelle Medlock Adams on 02/27/2019
Get Your Spirit On! is for girls and young women who are already cheerleaders, aspire to be cheerleaders, or simply wish to cheer for God. This upbeat devotional offers one entry per week for 40 weeks (which should cover a typical cheer season) and features a prayer (Megaphone to Master); a scripture (Strength Training); a thought-provoking question (Fire Up!); a journaling section (Ready. Ok.), a say it out loud declaration (Give a Shout!) and an action step (Jump Into Acton!), as well as Fit Tips, Fast Stats about cheerleading, and words to actual chants and cheers. Whether done on your...
Posted by Michelle Medlock Adams on 02/26/2019
There is a time for everything, and everything on earth has its special season. (Ecclesiastes 3:1) We have favorite seasons of nature, but what about spiritual seasons? You might have a favorite spiritual season, but you cannot live in it every moment of your life. You can choose to sit and pout about it, or you can use the time given to you, learning the lessons and growing the way God purposes. Every season combines with other seasons to complete a person’s life and purpose on earth. Growth is only possible because of the combination of seasons. We think we can handle our experiences—past,...
Posted by Susan Lawrence on 09/24/2018
FOR THE BRAND-NEW CHRISTIAN Christmas Edition of the Grace Warrior Devotional Series. Seeing the Babe-in-a-manger piece haphazardly stuffed between the Ninja Turtle Cowabunga Christmas plaque and snow globe with Frosty in beachwear made me want to run and hide. How could anyone celebrate Christmas in the midst of the commercialized chaos? God reminded me that in the middle of the confusion are people; grieving, worried, and desperate ones seeking relief. What better time than Advent to share with them what the season represents – hope, peace, joy, and love? ...
Posted by Melissa Kirk on 08/29/2017
