Three years ago, when infertility medicine was suggested to us, my husband and I were convicted big time by the Holy Spirit. “God is able,” we both kept thinking..
Tag: Children
Mid-Wife Crisis
His job felt important and exciting. Mine felt mundane and endless. His tasks felt missional. Mine felt meaningless...
Hearing God’s Whispers
Sometimes we don't get the test results we were hoping for. But our state of worry revolves not on what our results say, but rather on how well we know our Heavenly Father's character...
82 Days: A Message From One Mother to Her Daughter Before She Walks the Aisle
by Kathy Johnston Randi’s blog last week got me thinking about some numbers in my own life. At 18 I married my high school sweetheart, Russ Ulrich, the father of my 3 boys. We were married 16 1⁄2 years when he died. I was a single mom for 2 years before I married my husband Jonathan Johnston. I’ve been married to Jonathan for 21 1⁄2 years. Total years married years is 38. I have 7 beautiful grandchildren! By the time Sophie gets married in August, she will be 19 and I will have had children living in my house for 38 years. But there’s a big change coming because in 82 days my youngest child, Sophie, will be married to Evan Tucker. CLICK ON PHOTO TO KEEP READING...
The Greatest Mission Field: Your Children
Your children are watching you. Do they see Jesus reflected in the way you live?
Call to Action: Bedtimes That Last Forever
“Mom, am I brave?” Talk about a conversation starter! There’s something about bedtime-- the prayer, the snuggles, just decompressing after a long busy day. Bedtime with your kiddo is a sacred time...
Call to Action: The Children Next-door
Today, 7 in 10 Americans are overweight. How many think they are overweight? Only 36%... Could it be that we are also overlooking some worrisome symptoms of our spiritual health?
Playing God
I can remember the shock of discovering, ten months after marrying my best friend, that we were expecting a baby. I had to let go of our “5-year-plan”, quickly turned on its head...
The Power of Prayer: Randi Peck
In the quiet of their home, a young chemist and his wife prayed. Fifteen years later, their son seemed to contradict every one of those prayers...
Robin’s Testimony: Part 1
Robin stared into the face of a positive result and in an instant, “crisis pregnancy” took on a whole new meaning...