More for Girls Only Devotions: 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. For those of you who have tween girls, I want to tell you that I know what it's like to struggle with finding devotionals that will keep your daughter's attention.  She's at the age where everything's too "babyish" for her or too advanced.  So where's the happy medium?  I happened to run across a fantastic option recently, and I'm so happy to…

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The Most Beautiful Thing

I saw the most beautiful thing yesterday. It started at a "Celebration of Life" service. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it's another term for a funeral--except I would say that we celebrate the life of the deceased at this kind of service instead of mourning the loss of their presence. The lady who passed away was a friend of ours, the Sunday School teacher of all of our children, and a loving friend and mentor to many others. Proof: the church was packed. (Our church was more full for her service than it is on Christmas Eve!).…

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Persistent Prayer

I was going to write about fear today, since Halloween is on Saturday...but I realized I couldn't abandon my talk on the armor of God without one important aspect.  I know we've finished putting on every piece of armor, but there's one specific instruction that Paul gives us after explaining the armor.  And that is to pray.  Here it is in Ephesians 6, verse 18: Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere. Notice that your instructions aren't just to pray sometimes--like "God help me…

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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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