Jesus Changes Everything
Jesus’ Early Days Have you ever thought about what Jesus was like when He was younger? I assume that He was a lot like all of us. He had parents that raised Him. He crawled. He had to learn to walk and to talk. He went through puberty and adolescence. He had emotions....
Jesus Changes Everything
Jesus’ Early Days Have you ever thought about what Jesus was like when He was younger? I assume that He was a lot like all of us. He had parents that raised Him. He crawled. He had to learn to walk and to talk. He went through puberty and adolescence. He had emotions....
Planting Truth in Our Hearts
Every Tuesday evening for 30 weeks, I spent 3 hours in a classroom discussing family life skills with a group of women and a trained marriage and family counselor. On one memorable evening, our teacher stood at the front and re-defined anger for me: “Anger is a false...
Every Good Gift
As the Christmas season has come to an end I find today's passage particularly timely. The Christmas decorations have been taken down and the gifts put away. The New Year has made its entrance and with it, our New Year’s resolutions. Many of our New Year’s plans seem...
A Security that Never Fades Away
“Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man...
James Translations Now Available!
(Our James study has been translated into 17 languages!) We want to encounter God in a new and fresh way every time we visit Scripture. And we want to make friends along the way- real friends who will help us celebrate the smallest win and tell us the toughest truth....
Choosing Joy in the Midst of Trials
I love this time of year. January is a month for new beginnings, restarts, new goals, and yearly resolutions...which, if I'm honest, I always struggle to keep. It's a time for looking over the previous year and reflecting on the good, the bad and yes...even the ugly....
James Introduction
When you read the book of James in the New Testament, you’re reading something that was written by the half-brother of Jesus. How amazing to be able to read words written by a man who grew up in the same home as our Lord. James is never listed as one of the followers...
We Would Love Your Input!
Hello friends, As we begin our new year, we'd like to get YOUR input to help us know how to better serve you! You are so valuable to us and we want to make sure we are serving you to the best of our abilities! We absolutely love hearing from you and learning what is...
GIVEAWAY! Faithful Life Planner & James Study Journal
Are you ready to dig into the book of James? We are so excited that you've joined us in this 4-week study. In fact, we are so thankful for you, we'd like to celebrate with a GIVEAWAY! What better way to start off the new year than in God's Word AND with a NEW...
Join An LGG Group For Our James Study!
If you’ve been around Love God Greatly for long, you know that we’re really passionate about a couple of things: inspiring women get into God’s Word, and encouraging them that they don’t have to do it alone! In today’s fast-paced technology-driven world, it is easy...
JAMES Study Materials Now Available!
Ohhhh, friends! We begin our JAMES Bible study on MONDAY and we couldn’t be more excited! Now is a great time to reach out to your friends, neighbors, and co-workers and invite them to do our James study with you for these next 4 weeks! Our online Bible study format...
Equipping Women to Know God’s Word
Today, we’re wrapping up with Part THREE of our mission. Love God Greatly exists to: |EQUIP| women to grow in their faith, so they can effectively reach others for Christ. Just because we are connected online doesn’t mean we at Love God Greatly don’t feel like a real,...
Encouraging Women In God’s Word
Yesterday, we invited YOU to lock arms with us and INSPIRE women to Love God Greatly with their lives. Today we’re focusing on Part TWO of our mission. Love God Greatly exists to: |ENCOURAGE| women in their daily walks with God through an online community and...
Inspiring Women With God’s Word
Three very intentional words drive our mission here at Love God Greatly… Inspire. Encourage. Equip. Whether you have a deep connection with our Love God Greatly community or you are just checking us out for the first time, let us introduce ourselves. We are a...
Let’s Start 2018 Out In God’s Word!
Friend, Here's to an amazing, hope-filled year. A year full of possibilities and new opportunities. A year of second chances and opportunities to know God at a deeper level! Just because you made mistakes in the past year doesn't mean you have to carry them...
His Wounds, Our Peace
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5 Christ took the thrashings and held still for His nailing, even though He did not...
Peace that Overcomes
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” - John 16:33 Jesus lived among us and knows our human perspective. He knew His disciples suffered from human...
Let Peace Rule
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. - Colossians 3:15 As followers of Christ, we must be imitators of Him, not amplifiers of ourselves. We cannot ride the unpredictable waves of our emotions...
Peace Not of This World
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. - John 14:27 The disciples had only recently learned to live life with Jesus, and now He was preparing them for what...
Prince of Peace
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6 Here God declares a message of hope by announcing the...
Our Guide and Defender
And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. And the angel said to them, “Fear not,...
We Are His
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. - Psalm 100:3 We agree that we are the sheep of His pasture when we remain submitted to His care. As He tells us to stay and rest, we do. As He...
He Restores My Soul
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. - Psalm 23:1-3 If I stay in once place or if I travel alone, and not follow God’s commands, my attempts to sustain myself will...
At His Table in Brazil
God multiplies our big leaps of faith into wide tides for His kingdom, pulling more into His embrace. God does not show us the full picture when we say yes to Him, but His promises never fail to come to fruition. And they come bearing multitudes of fruit. Helen...
Return to the Shepherd
For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. - 1 Peter 2:25 The moment we turn from Jesus, we run toward death. Distraction, detours, and decay are suddenly everywhere. Our enemy does not care about the condition...