Introduction to Firm Foundation
In today's fast-paced and ever-changing world, it can be challenging to find stability and peace. As women, we often juggle multiple roles and responsibilities, facing pressures from various directions. In the midst of this chaos, the need for a solid foundation—one...
Introduction to Firm Foundation
In today's fast-paced and ever-changing world, it can be challenging to find stability and peace. As women, we often juggle multiple roles and responsibilities, facing pressures from various directions. In the midst of this chaos, the need for a solid foundation—one...
Celebrating God at work through LGG Hungary!
Friends, We talk all the time about how ONE WOMAN can make a difference in her country and it's true! I'm so excited for you to meet my sweet friend, Viola, and hear how God is using her to reach Hungarian women with our Love God Greatly Bible Studies! Make sure to...
In Everything Give Thanks – Materials Now Available!
We begin our Thanksgiving study this coming 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 In Everything Give Thanks study with you for these next 2 weeks! Our online Bible...
Your Invitation To Help Us Change Lives
(Click here to watch today's video) I recently sat in a meeting at a local seminary and shared about Love God Greatly: how our Bible studies are now being translated into 18 languages and are reaching women all over the world... in over 200 different countries, to be...
Living in Freedom Through Forgiveness
When the You Are Forgiven study book was announced, I thought it might not be a topic that really spoke to me very much. I’ve always been a “good girl,” staying out of trouble and trying to live for Christ. What did I have that was really that bad, or what had I not...
Choosing Forgiveness Over Bitterness
During my life, I have faced many trials. Each challenge has formed who I am today. Some would say that I have every right to be bitter, but carrying that anger with me has kept a focus on the past and hindered me from the path God has laid before me. The Love God...
Waiting On The Lord
(Melissa's previous testimony was shared in our You Are Forgiven book during chapter seven.) I hung up the phone with Joan after sharing my story, and for the first time in several weeks God had filled me with some joy. It was painful having to face the reality of...
Power of God’s Word
This has been the most amazing study. To find out how much God loves me and how deep His forgiveness for me goes is overwhelming. Daily I was blown away from the Scriptures that we read. I realized through this study, the intensity of love my Heavenly Father has for...
Because He Forgives Me, I Can Forgive Myself…
In January 2016 I committed to completing a one-year daily bible reading plan. Within three weeks I had fallen off the wagon. So much was in transition in my life. Let me explain: In October 2015 I quit my job. I had been working as a director of a non-profit...
How can you KNOW that you are forgiven?
How Can You Know That You Are Forgiven? These last eight weeks have flown by, and I pray that we're ending this study a little wrecked, a lot changed, and in complete awe of our great God and His mind-blowing gift of forgiveness. Many nights were spent praying and...
Beautiful Feet Bring Good News
They called her Moses. An unlikely heroine, Harriet Tubman was five-feet tall and suffered a brain injury at age 15 when a heavy iron weight was hurled in her direction. In the years that followed, she was plagued by sleeping spells and migraine headaches. Born a...
Week 8 – Now Is Your Time…GO!
For seven weeks now we've been reading, sharing, and diving into what it means to be forgiven. Slowly, day by day, we've taken this life-changing truth from God's Word and have applied it to our hearts. I know some mornings you've worked to embrace truth that feels...
The Joy Of Our Salvation
THE JOY OF OUR SALVATION William Tyndale was a scholar who translated the Bible into an early form of modern English. He was very outspoken about his views and especially passionate about the good news of the gospel. Tyndale said, “Evangelion (that we call the gospel)...
Called to love…
CALLED TO LOVE... "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this, all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” - John 13:34-35 Jesus loves everyone....
Week 7 – The Fruit of Forgiveness: Love and Joy
It was a brisk Fall Monday morning a couple of weeks ago, and like a fish out of water this suburban mama was headed into the big city of Chicago for the day. I had recently applied for an international Visa, and the backed-up-more-than-usual consulate suggested that...
The Beauty of Forgiveness in Friendship
Forgiveness, to the believer, is a healing balm, soothing and restoring the most bitter wound, sealing to protect from decay, working into our very skin an ointment of grace that little by little transforms us completely. It makes sense then that as Christians, we...
Give Thanks Always And For EVERYTHING…
Give Thanks Always And For EVERYTHING... “Fleas!” I cried. “Betsie, the place is swarming with them!” We scrambled across the intervening platforms, heads low to avoid another bump, dropped down to the aisle, and edged our way to a patch of light. “Here! And...
Marked by Gratitude…
MARKED BY GRATITUDE... Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on...
Week 6 – The Fruit of Our Forgiveness: Gratitude
The Fruit of Our Forgiveness: Gratitude When I wrote Chapter 6 in You Are Forgiven, I shared a very personal, very painful story. To some who have read it, it might not have seemed like that big of a deal. But they didn't experience it. They didn't see the look...
Free to Forgive: A Story of Healing from Abuse
It’s been forty-one years since those bully boys stole my body, mind, and bits and pieces of my shattered soul. They posed as interested neighbors, ready to help my ancient babysitter. They’d take me off her hands, lessen her load. Which is strange if you knew me back...
The Forgiven, Forgive…
THE FORGIVEN, FORGIVE... The verses for today are taken from the Lord’s Prayer. We are so familiar with it that if we're honest, we would admit that it really doesn't mean all that much to us when we read or say it. I know I have felt that way. But the Lord’s Prayer...
When you’re desperate for change in this world…
You're holding your breath, hoping - praying - something will change. The world is in a mess, after all. Selfishly, you wanted better for yourself. Sincerely, you want better for your children and grandchildren. But with each passing day, it seems that corruption...
Week 5 – The Call of Forgiveness
THE CALL OF FORGIVENESS Hi Ladies! I am so glad to be here with you for another week of our You Are Forgiven study. I hope that you are changing and growing during this pruning of our hearts, minds, and beliefs throughout this study. It is the beginning of Fall time...
Overcoming Faith…
OVERCOMING FAITH Years ago, I came across a prayer that captured my need for Christ perfectly. I printed out its words and tacked it to the bulletin board beside my bunk bed in my college dorm room. “Dear Lord, So far I've done all right. I haven't gossiped, haven't...
Choose to Live in the Freedom of Forgiveness
It’s funny, as a mom you tend to get stuck on certain “topics” or “themes” that you seem to go over and over again with your kids like a broken record. Just one more time... let me say it to you just one more time. The type of life we live is many times created...