One More Step: A Book Review

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links, which means I receive a percentage of each sale when you make a purchase using these links; however, I fully support and recommend each of these products.  You can view my full disclosure policy here. I recently finished reading Rachel Wojo's latest book One More Step as part of her launch team.  I haven't followed Rachel very long, so for me this book was very much an introduction to Rachel's background and writing style.  Honestly, I always thought of Rachel as one of those good Christian mom bloggers who never went through anything difficult.  Goes to show that…

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Dear Addict

This is one of those posts I wasn't sure I was going to write. I've been sitting on it for quite a while. But with this being Red Ribbon Week, I felt now might be one of the best times to finally sit down and open up. As many of you know, Rapunzel's biological father passed away a little over 2 1/2 years ago. It's a complicated story--one for another day--but the long and short of it is that he was caught up in addiction. Addicted for close to 18 years to heroin, we lost him to a drug overdose.…

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Time to Play Offense: How to Wield the Sword of the Spirit

The very last piece of armor that we are instructed to bring with us into battle is our primary offensive weapon, “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God (Eph. 6:17).” What do we know about the Word of God? The Word and God are one and the same. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. - John 1:1  In John 1:1 we read, “and the Word was God.”  This means that the Word of God is part of Him.  We also read that “the Word was with God.”  It…

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Bullet-Proof Heart

Depending on which version of the Bible you read, you’ll find that Ephesians 6:14 describes the armor as “the breastplate of righteousness,” or “the body armor of God’s righteousness.”  When consulting with my husband on these two terms, he informed me that, when Ephesians was being written, body armor and the breastplate were the same thing.  Thus, we’ll treat them as such. Strong’s Concise Concordance describes the breastplate as having two parts that protect the torso (from the neck to the middle of the body) front and back.  This piece of armor, generally made of leather, bronze, or iron, protected…

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An Event You Don’t Want to Miss

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links, which means I receive a percentage of each sale when you make a purchase using these links; however, I fully support and recommend each of these products. You can view my full disclosure policy here. Do you believe that motherhood is the toughest and most beautiful job in the world? Would you like a little help minimizing the hard stuff and maximizing the wonderful stuff involved in motherhood? Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could attend trainings by all the best authors and speakers on motherhood topics? Well... You can! And it's free! And…

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