Chantel 3 Minute Read I love reality TV shows like “Survivor” and “The Amazing Race”, and it isn’t really because of the competition. It’s mostly because of the people. I sit back and enjoy watching the intricacies of human relationships develop and the good and the bad of personalities pushed to their limits. Personalities and how we interact as…
Chantel 4 Minute Read I crave real simplicity. I’m not really a minimalist in the true sense of the word. I could never get rid of my shelves (and boxes) of books and I think it’s okay to have more than three or four completely mix-and-matchable outfits in my wardrobe. But I know how full and crazy life is….
Caroline Rose Sanders 2 Minute Read Many of us share a respect and admiration for Elisabeth Elliot, world-famous missionary, speaker, writer and woman of God. We’ve eaten up her books on purity and femininity and walked through her devotionals, but not everyone has heard of her book on gladly surrendering. But ladies: this is a don’t miss. I first read Discipline:…
Chantel 2 Minute Read This little book — this book with the title Pain Redeemed — it sat by my bed for a few weeks before I opened it. I wanted to read it. There is nothing so thrilling as holding a real, live book written by a friend in your hands. Mine is even autographed, much to my joy! The night I…
Jessica Elisabeth 2 Minute Read Dignity. It’s a word we don’t hear too often in Sunday School or late-night slumber party conversations. But it forms a central theme in Rosalie de Rosset’s book Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Young Woman’s Choices. According to Dr. Rosset, To be a Christian woman of dignity, a woman must know…
Emily C. Gardner 3 Minute Read Just like there are a few conversation topics I generally avoid talking about at a party, there are certainly a list of topics I generally avoid (probably subconsciously) when picking a new book to read. My pleasure reading doesn’t usually involve death, dying, or illness. Sometimes those things play a small supporting role in the plot,…
Jessica Telian 3 Minute Read When I first read Rachel Jankovic’s debut book, Loving the Little Years, my feeling of relief and encouragement was profound. Finally! Here was the author of a parenting book who understood where I was coming from. At that point, I had two little ones under the age of two, and it seemed like all the parenting books…
Chantel 4 Minute Read I was probably nine when I had my first major face-off with one of my greatest troubles. I was sent up to teach the kindergartners their church school lesson one week. I’d practiced and practiced and written down every single little word that I was going to say. But when I got up there, I felt the…
Natasha Metzler 3 Minute Read In the book Sacred Marriage Gary Thomas asks, Thomas challenges readers to look at marriage in a different light. To view it not as a romantic or self-fulfilling industry, but rather, as a practical way to live out the Christian faith. Romantic love is often what draws couples together, and that is fine, but there needs…
Katie 3 Minute Read But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Matt 6:33, ESV) What if we based our search for a spouse on seeking first the kingdom of God? What if our criteria for entering into a dating or courting relationship was not based on how we felt, but…
Elisabeth Adams 2 Minute Read Angie Smith didn’t set out to become a writer. Her blog, Bring the Rain, was begun as a way to keep family and friends up-to-date with the arrival of her fourth daughter, who was diagnosed as “incompatible with life.” Audrey Caroline lived a lifetime of just a few hours, but her mama kept right on…
Melinda 6 Minute Read In Lies Young Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free by Nancy DeMoss and Dannah Gresh I discovered truth on every page and continually found reason to applaud the authors’ straight talk about hard issues. At first, however, I had a negative impression of the book; its design bordered on too busy (a…
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