Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read A girl never outgrows the need for her mother. That fact came home to me two months into my marriage. My husband was lying on a hospital bed in front of me, broken, burnt, and bruised after a welding explosion which could have so easily claimed his life. In his over-medicated state, he kept forgetting…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read Are you dancing through life choosing the joy of the Lord with every step? Or have the days become a drudgery of discontent? Whether you are already focusing on choosing joy or know you have a lot to learn about the practice of joyfulness, you’ll want to read Sally Clarkson’s new book. (Keep reading to…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. -François Mauriac The month of March is here. And we here at ylcf.org are celebrating March with a March of Books! I’m celebrating, too, because our remodel is…
Gretchen Louise 1 minute Have you read any good books lately? If not, you’d better hit the local library or visit Paperback Swap, or because we’re planning a “March of Books” for the month of March. Not only do we have at least a half dozen book reviews and two double book giveaways coming here on ylcf.org, but we’re…
Ashleigh Baker 4 Minute Read It is my firmly held belief that each spouse in every marriage ought to perpetually have on his or her nightstand a good book on the topic of marriage. This is not to say, exactly, that John and I are both devouring a new marriage book every day, nor that my primary reading is necessarily…
Lanier Ivester 5 Minute Read There are some books that you just can’t read in the summer. Last winter, Philip and I whiled away the better part of the January and February evenings with Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, settling in by the fireside at the end of a long day and losing ourselves amid the intrigues and adventures of a…
Gretchen Louise 7 Minute Read How often does it cross your mind that the way we live as Christian women is to actually commend the Gospel? Carolyn Mahaney has written a book that brings that point home in a powerful way, highlighting “the seven virtues of a godly wife and mother” straight from Titus 2. Feminine Appeal has a powerful…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read Two short months into our marriage, we got a rude awakening as to how quickly money can become an issue in marriage and in life–and to how quickly money can disappear! My husband’s leg was absolutely shattered in a farming accident. And by the time he got home from the hospital, the first of the…
Elisabeth Adams 2 Minute Read As a homeschool grad, author Natalie Wickham hears lots of questions about homeschooling. In fact, one of them — “Do you get to wear your pajamas to school?” — inspired the title of her book. At the heart of all the questions from parents, she sees “the unspoken search for the assurance that if they…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read Set-Apart Femininity: God’s Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman is unlike the average book at your local Christian book store. As the title implies, it is most definitely set apart from the rest. It is not a book about being a happy, fulfilled, Christian woman-at least not in the terms we normally think of happiness…
Gretchen Louise 6 Minute Read It was the summer before I turned 13. The summer before I met Merritt. The summer my world changed from that of a little girl to a teenager. It was the summer I read His Perfect Faithfulness by Eric and Leslie Ludy. All I knew about dating was what I observed from afar in the…
Elisabeth Adams 1 minute It’s been years since I’ve read The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but several snippets of the story remain deeply imprinted on my mind. Especially the long, desolate hallway in the magician’s house: the gauntlet Lucy had to run, in order to rescue those silly Dufflepuds from their inconvenient invisibility. Of course she could imagine…
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