Living free in Christ while in a decadent society gives me all the latitude I need to reveal the areas of my heart that continue to need work.

Being crucified with Christ says that I have died to all the worldly passions and desires and means that those things are literally dead to me.

There can be only one main thing, and it has to be Jesus.

What I do with submission to my husband is vital for the very reason that it is not just about me and my rights in our little house on the prairie, a speck on the globe and a tiny blip on the line of history. The same goes for you.

We need to practice responsible wisdom in all areas of our marriages as we seek to glorify God.

Oneness is an aspect of imaging God.

Your obedience to the Lord in being a complement will also make you a compliment to your husband (Proverbs 12:4).

While the ultimate purpose for all of life, including marriage, is the glory of God, Genesis makes clear that, on a human level, marriage is for companionship.

The Bible teaches God’s purposes for marriage are companionship, oneness, procreation, completion, and more. The ultimate purpose is to image Himself for His glory.

Walking through grief, it has become clear just how easily it can be to falter into a full-blown pity party.

A woman once had some questions about the most recent post, "The Value of Being Judged." She had recently hit a rough patch in her marriage at the time. With her permission, I wanted to share with you what she asked because I believe it can be valuable. The first...

Have you ever been judged? Rather than focusing on the person who judged you, think for a moment about what this judgment revealed in you. What was your response toward the person who was judging you? Were you angry, put out, outraged? Did you have a desire to justify...

Ephesians 1:8-10 says, “In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in...

Think of the last time you were feeling “blue” or even depressed. Did you flip through pages of Scripture, looking for something to bring relief? You were hoping to feel better, but unfortunately, you closed your Bible and moved on with your day, trying to function with a heavy heart.

Several years back, as I packed boxes for our upcoming move and looked around at the chaos that was my home, I noticed a note from a woman I had the pleasure of ministering to a while ago. I have her permission to share the following general information. BEYOND HOPE...

The message that God is trying to convey: point your children to look to God, fear God, and trust God.

Your past can significantly benefit you because you can look back at your decisions and learn from them all.

God created sex and declared it good. How do we know?

The truthful and straightforward answer is that it was stored up in my heart for all those years because I never dealt with it biblically. I had decided at the time to file away my thoughts, beliefs and feelings about his comments along with those exams, and when I reread my work and his comments, they have come back to defile many.

David didn’t strengthen himself in his own power, but rather, in the Lord his God.