The older Christian wedding vows contained these amazing words: "With my body, I thee worship." Maybe our forefathers weren't so prudish after all; maybe they understood sex far better than we do. To give yourself over to another, passionately...
READ MOREThere is something forged in all of us that can only be forged through fire. Perhaps intense periods of struggle, pain, betrayal, persecution, and rejection are the times when the baptism by fire that Jesus talks about occurs. When we cling to...
READ MOREWe will never be happy as long as we are trying to live apart from ourselves or in disregard of ourselves, our hearts, our desires, our ache. Though happiness is never the highest goal, it comes to us naturally when the other aspects of our lives...
READ MOREYou cannot take your Question to Adam. You cannot look to him for the validation of your soul. But so many women do. If I have a man, then I’m okay. Then I’m loved. It happens around adolescence for women too. The time for her...
READ MOREWe women were given a huge capacity and need for relationship. It is our glory and a beautiful way that we bear the image of God, who enjoys perfect, intimate relationship. But our glory has been tainted. Because of human brokenness and sin,...
READ MOREForever and ever? That's it? That's the "good news"? And then we sigh and feel guilty that we are not more "spiritual." We lose heart, and we turn once more to the present to find what life we can. Eternity ends up having no bearing on...
READ MORECan there be any doubt that God wants to be sought after? The first and greatest of all commands is to love him (Mark 12:29-30; Matt. 22:36-38). He wants us to love him. To seek him with all our heart. A woman longs to be sought after,...
READ MOREStasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be.
Part of our healing comes with forgiveness (of ourselves and others), and part of it comes with repentance....
READ MOREStasi Eldredge's book, "Free to Be Me", helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be.
Hi. I’m Stasi and, okay, yes, it’s been a while since I was in middle school or high school, or even was...
READ MOREGod speaks to us. In many, many ways. But most often, he wants to speak to us intimately, personally; he wants us to hear his voice and feel confident that we are hearing from him. The beauty of prayer for guidance is that it requires two-way...
READ MOREThere is a famous passage of Scripture that many people have heard in the context of an invitation to know Christ as Savior. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in (Rev. 3:20...
READ MOREThe stories from our past that shaped us and the words that were spoken over our lives that have crippled us do not stand a chance in the light of the powerful grace and mercy that come to us now in the Person of Jesus. We do not have to remain...
READ MOREThough we don’t have all the control and assurance we may want, we as God’s beloved can be certain of many things…
We know that we are more than conquerors through him who loves us. We know that nothing, nothing, nothing will be able to...
READ MOREHow do you understand your life? Why has it turned out so differently from what you imagined? What do you make of its randomness? The phone rings, and you have no idea what is coming. It could be great news! It could be an old friend getting back...
READ MOREStasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be.
There’s a reason they made a movie with the title Mean Girls. It’s because girls can be vicious. They...
READ MOREGod wants an intimate relationship with us. He is not a God who is far away; he is the God who has made us his dwelling place. We are the temple of the Lord. When by faith, we confess that Jesus is LORD, he comes and makes his home ...
READ MOREMothers bestow our self-worth, and they have the ability to withhold it. Intentionally, but more often unintentionally. A mother cannot pass on what she does not possess. And neither can we. Mothers have the ability to withhold acceptance, value...
READ MORE Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters ...
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. (Isa. 55:1– 2)
You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride...
We talk, of course, but we’ve found that it’s best for a husband and wife not to take on the role of counselor. (We’ve both been to counseling in the past—once during the early years of our marriage, and then both of us separately around fourteen...
READ MOREEve is God’s relational specialist given to the world to keep relationship a priority.
Men have a way of letting these things slip. They’ll go months without checking in on the health of their relationships. Years, even....
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