Jess Connolly joins me on the podcast today to talk about our position in Christ as redeemed women, and what parts grace, holiness, and mission have to play in our lives. This is a chat you will not want to miss! Jess is a church planter’s wife, mom of 4, small business owner, author, speaker, […]
Book Review: “Indescribable: 100 Devotions about God and Science” by Louie Giglio
*I received a complementary copy of this devotional in exchange for my honest review. When I saw a book review opportunity come open for Louie Giglio’s new devotional for kids and read its description, I jumped at the chance to check it out! I want to first provide you with the official product description […]
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How to Pursue Creativity as a Busy Mom - Guest Post by Lisa Hensley
We have a special guest on the blog today! Lisa Hensley from Delighting in my Days and the Uniquely Woman podcast joins us to share several practical tips and some much-needed inspiration for how even the busiest of moms can pursue creativity in their everyday life. Lisa is gifted at encouraging mamas with the truths […]
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023: Waking Up to the Possibilities with Kat Lee
Kat Lee from the Inspired to Action Podcast and HelloMornings joins me on the podcast today to discuss topics pertaining to her newly-released book, Hello Mornings: How to Build a Grace-Filled, Life-Giving Morning Routine. More than even just inspiring you to make the most of your mornings, Kat really encourages us with the perspective that we have each been […]
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New Year’s Resolutions and the Gospel
We are fast approaching the season in which people begin to focus on making New Year’s Resolutions. Many of us are currently thinking through our plans and goals for 2018, drafting up resolutions for how we are going to live better, more productive, more fruitful lives in the new year, and all the while […]
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022: Putting Feet to Our Faith with Tricia Goyer
Tricia Goyer, wife, mom of 10, and author of seventy books joins me on the podcast today to talk about the concepts found in her newest book, Walk it Out: The Radical Result of Living God’s Word One Step at a Time. I know you are going to be encouraged and inspired by today’s chat! […]
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Book Review: “Fruitful” by Phylicia Masonheimer
*I received a complementary copy of Fruitful in exchange for my honest review. You may already be familiar with Phylicia Masonheimer, having heard her on the podcast today talking about her first book, Christian Cosmo. Well, this fall she came out with a second book, this one entitled Fruitful: A Year-Long Guide to an […]
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020: Trusting God in Adversity with Jennifer Defrates
My friend, Jennifer Defrates, is no stranger to hardship, trial, and difficulty. Yet through it all, she has found the Lord to be so faithful, loving, and trustworthy as He brings good out of everything and works miracles even in the darkest times. I know you are going to be encouraged through her testimony today! […]
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When “Motherhood is a Woman’s Highest Calling” Backfires
Tuesday marked the beginning of Launch Month for my new ebook, Lies Moms Believe (And How the Gospel Refutes Them), which releases Friday, November 10th (and is actually available for preorder now)! I can’t believe we are already to this point! I am pleased to share with you today the first in a series of guest […]
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What I Would Go Back and Tell My Newlywed Self
Having been married only three and a half years, my husband and I are by no means an old married couple. We have, however, already grown our family by two children in those first three years, so I feel as if we have already lived a lot of life in our short marriage! Even though […]
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017: Sorority Girls Can Change the World with Katie Bulmer
Katie Bulmer joins me on the podcast today to share her heart for college girls and the incredible impact they can have on the world for Christ. Katie is super vulnerable and real with us, sharing her testimony of being a sorority girl given to partying, drinking, and dating around during college and how […]
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Turning our Worry into Worship
I have had the immense joy of guest-posting on several amazing sites since March. Today, I’m so excited because I now actually have my very first guest-poster to share with y’all!! 😀 I can’t imagine a more special gal to have write the first guest post here on the site than my dear friend, Amber […]
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When God Weeps
Sometimes life is just plain hard. There are money problems, friendships lost, family turmoil, deaths of loved ones, deployments, illnesses, difficult decisions to make, and just regular, everyday struggles. Unfortunately, when faced with one or more of these life situations, our tendency can be to wonder if God cares, to wonder if He is aware of […]
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015: Young Women and Christian Ministry with Hannah Bowers
Hannah Bowers is a 21 year old wife, new mama, blogger, and the president and founder of the fast-growing Young Wives Club, a ministry dedicated to encouraging young wives in their marriages and walks with the Lord. She joins me today to share some fantastic wisdom, advice, and encouragement for any young woman looking to […]
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Living the Holy Life
When Lauren told me that she had chosen “holiness” as her theme for August, I knew I had to jump at the opportunity to write on a topic that is so close to my heart. You see, I have baggage in my past when it comes to this concept of holy living and what it […]
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014: Overcoming Prenatal and Postpartum Depression and Anxiety with Valerie Keinsley
Valerie Keinsley is a Christian, wife, mama to two, and home business owner residing in Indiana. She joins me on the podcast today to share her journey of dealing with prenatal and postpartum depression and anxiety, in the hopes that doing so will encourage fellow mamas and inspire them to be open and honest about […]
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When Kindness Became Flirting: What Christian Girls Need to Know About Flirting
I am thrilled to be guest-posting for my friend, Phylicia Masonheimer, sharing, especially for all you single gals, an interesting story from my teen years. We are talking all about the difference between kindness and flirting, and how friendships with guys can be a great thing! I hope you’re encouraged. I’ll never forget […]
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Mama, You are too Busy NOT to Have Friends!
I so appreciate my sweet friend, Amber, inviting me to write for her again! I first wrote for her blog on the topic of finding joy in hospitality, and today I’m sharing a different perspective of friendship for moms - the perspective that we are so busy with the cares of this life that we […]
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012: The Work at Home Mom Life with Erika Oeding Hull
Erika Oeding Hull of Chaotic Blessing joins me today to talk about the work at home mom life. She is a wife, mom of 5, and home business owner dedicated to helping women wisely plan their days according to their God-given priorities. What we Chat about in this Episode ~The importance of planning […]
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011: Don’t Waste Your Wait with Naomi Quick
Naomi Quick is a wife, homeschooling mama to 6 kiddos 8 and under, two of which have been adopted through the foster care system, writer, and speaker dedicated to encouraging and advocating for orphans, adoptive parents, and those involved in the foster care system. She recently wrote a fantastic book entitled “Don’t Waste Your Wait: […]
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The 5 Biggest Barriers to Christian Mama Friendship
Mamas, we need each other. How desperately so! We crave the kind of encouragement, wisdom, understanding, and inspiration which can only come from other moms. And, yet, we regularly act as if we do not believe this to be true. We go through our lives as moms busily rushing from one task to the […]
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Being Your Husband’s Helpmeet: What it Actually Means
Satan is always in the habit of taking what God has actually said about a topic and twisting it, leading us to believe in a dangerous caricature of the truth. Never is this more common, perhaps, than in the area of men’s and women’s roles, not the least of which being the calling of a […]
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When Your Husband Doesn’t Bring You Flowers
It’s a joy to share with you today the article I wrote this month for the Young Wives’ Club. I hope it helps and inspires you. I love, love, love being married! Apart from Christ, marriage is the biggest blessing of my life. At some point in our marriage journeys, however, we begin to […]
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Husband of the Blogger LinkUp Pt. 3 - Men’s Ministry in the Church
We are so enjoying doing these Husband of the Blogger Link Ups each month, where Owen gets a chance to come on the blog and share his thoughts! If you have missed our first two installments, you can find those here and here. To follow along with my awesome blogging friends who are also a […]
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Leaving Room for Fatherhood
It’s a joy to be guest-posting for my friend, Lauren, again this month! Today, I’m sharing the following thoughts in honor of Father’s Day. As moms, I think we have all been there at one time or another. That moment when we look at our husbands and think them crazy for something they are […]
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009: Hope for the Fatherless with Amber Durgan
My sweet, sweet friend, Amber Durgan, joins me today for a special Father’s Day episode of the podcast. We realize that Father’s Day is a very hard day for some folks, particularly for people who have lost their fathers or who do not have good relationships with them. For this reason, we wanted to […]
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The Church Hurts itself by Majoring on the Minors
Sarah Chardavoyne over at the beautiful site, InkBlots of Hope, has started an awesome new series which centers around how the church hurts itself, exposing different ways in which the church is guilty of doing things which are actually harmful to the Body of Christ. I had the honor of being able to write a guest […]
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Your Husband is not Your Enemy
I was so honored and excited to be invited last month to be a new monthly contributor over on the awesome site, Young Wives Club! Here is my first article for them. 🙂 We have all had those moments. If we have been married for any length of time at all, we have all had […]
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Mom Crush Monday: Motherhood Reveals God’s Love for You
I have so enjoyed following along with Brittany Dyer’s weekly series, Mom Crush Monday, and learning from the other mamas that have been featured there in the past. Well, I am so honored to be able to share with y’all the post that I wrote for her series this past Monday! I hope it blesses […]
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HandH 001: Chronic Illness and the Christian Walk with Angela Parsley
Hello and welcome to the very first episode of the Home and Hearth podcast!!! I am so excited that this day is finally here and that I can begin sharing with all of you the amazing interviews I’ve had the pleasure of recording these past several weeks. First up, we have my chat with my […]
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The True Key to Finding Balance in Life
I met Lauren in the Conservative Christian Momma Bloggers group on FB (have I mentioned lately how awesome that group is? 😉 ), and was instantly so struck by her love for the Lord and faith in His Word. It is an honor to be serving as a guest contributor on her blog this month, […]
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Finding Joy in Hospitality
My sweet friend, Amber, of Embrace This Joyful Life has been doing a great series on her blog all about helping us to cultivate joy in various areas of our lives. I was so touched when she reached out to me and asked if I would write a guest post for her series on the topic […]
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Wives, Here’s Why and How to be Flirty!
In case y’all missed it on Saturday, I guest-posted over on Keelie Reason’s awesome site, Love, Hope, Adventure, on the topic of how important it is for wives to be flirty with their husbands, as well as some ideas for how they can go about doing just that! I hope you enjoy! “What really […]
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How to Pray without Ceasing
As I shared in a FB live video on blogging tips for beginners, I have been so blessed by the incredible ladies I have met through being a part of FB groups for Christian women who blog. One of those ladies is Tayrina who blogs at the lovely site His Purpose in Me on topics such as […]
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Liberal, Conservative, or Biblical?
[social_warfare] All my life I’ve known that I never wanted to be a liberal, politically-speaking. Liberal in love? In grace? In kindness? In giving? In hospitality? Sure! But definitely not liberal in my personal political leanings. I was raised in a Christian home, have gone to church all my life (my birth was even announced […]
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Why Christian Dogmatism is not Enough
[social_warfare] Last week I released an article in response to Jen Hatmaker’s claim that homosexuality can be “holy” and emphasized therein that we must, as Christians, remain faithful to God’s Word and God’s Word alone and that, in order to truly love someone, that requires sharing God’s unchanging truth and standard with them. After all, […]
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God Loves Hospitality…Do You?
[social_warfare] ***This post was inspired by the wonderful new book, Listen, Love, Repeat: Other-Centered Living in a Self-Centered World, by Karen Ehman, which releases November 15th! You can purchase a copy at http://listenloverepeatbook.com. Hospitality. It’s a word that can oftentimes strike fear and dread in the hearts of Christian women everywhere. I submit to […]
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When the Mommy Wars Enter the Church
[social_warfare] Ahh…the dreaded “Mommy Wars”. The phrase which-though it wasn’t even around decades ago before the onset of social media- refers to a heart condition which has actually been around for a while now- the way we as women tend to judge one another and harbor a sometimes critical spirit of each other in our hearts. The […]
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My Top 10 Books from 2015!
~~~~ **Please note: In the pursuit of full disclosure, this post does contain Amazon Affiliate Links!** ~~~~ If you know me, then you know that I am one voracious reader! I have loved reading as far back as I can remember, am well known for reading while brushing my teeth (gotta take full advantage […]
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Vlog: A Christmas Message for Busy Mamas
Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and anxious this Christmas season? Are you a busy Mama trying to do it all and be it all, in order to make this Christmas special for your family? I know how you feel! I know what it’s like to be staring at a never-ending to-do list that stems from […]
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A Call to Realness: Going from Picture-Perfect Homemaker to a Woman in Need of Grace
Upon getting married nearly two months ago and undertaking the role of keeper of my home, I have had many thoughts whirling around in my head as to the work and ministry of homemaking. There are countless wonderful blogs out there which so aptly point to the purpose and design God has in mind for […]
