Category: For Adults
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The Right Direction
By: Alicia Crowe I often find myself asking the question, “Am I doing this right? Am I being the wife, mother, friend, neighbor that God is wanting me to be?” Those questions come from a deep desire to honor God with who I am, what I value, and where I…
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What Do You Want For Christmas?
By: Anna Fox How many times have you asked your teen this question? We spend the holiday season focused on buying and wrapping gifts, baking, and making family memories. These are all wonderful things, but we often miss celebrating the best gift of all, Jesus, God in the flesh. Jesus…
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Seasons
By: Pam Jones Ecclesiastes 3:1: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. It’s that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the nights longer and the leaves are falling. Here in southwest Pennsylvania, we experience all four seasons and…
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Choose Contentment
By: Dawn Elliott We live in a society of discontentment. Adults are always looking for a better job, more pay, a better car, a nicer house, and even more recognition. Our children want more games, more toys, better sports equipment, the best position in sports, and better clothes. Our society…
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Lesson Learned
By: Mitzi Munsey Satterfield Learning that your precious baby was born with a serious illness is a difficult challenge for any parent. Rachel was our third child. She was a beautiful baby, but our celebration soon became solemn and sad. Rachel was born with a very rare chronic illness that…
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Big Lessons for Small Choices
By: Diana Bryant One of my favorite Sunday School classes ever was a group of tenth through twelfth grade girls several years ago. We studied scripture, but we also spent quite a bit of time applying scriptural principles to their everyday life situations. We discussed, analyzed, and looked for principles…
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Before You Say No
By: Ana Batts Summertime is my favorite. VBS. Summer Camp. A break from school. So many adventures. And now that our oldest children are in high school, summer comes with even more opportunities. Mission trips. Volunteer opportunities. E-TEAM. Truth and Peace. All those things are great. And expensive. It is…
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The Words of Our Mouth
By: Diana Bryant There’s an old, old saying that goes like this: Little pitchers have big ears. It comes from the 16th century and was used by parents to signal each other that their little children (pitchers) were around. They might overhear something that was not meant for their ears…
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How Do You Feel About Laundry
By: Dawn Elliot In a recent conversation with a young newlywed, she was lamenting how much laundry her new husband generated and how much she hated doing laundry. As we chatted, I shared with her two things. First, I reminded her of how long she had prayed for her husband…
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Time
By: Anna Fox “I just don’t have enough time.” “There are not enough hours in the day.” These phrases quickly roll off our tongues, yet if we listed how we utilized our day, it would often show we wasted a lot of time. What are we passing down to the…
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