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When Making Others Happy is Making You Miserable
When Making Others Happy is Making You MiserableBy Karen Ehman Feeling overwhelmed, burned out, and pulled in too many directions by the needs of others? Break the pattern of people pleasing and confidently live your life. Author and speaker Karen Ehman knows firsthand how people pleasing locks us in a prison, trapping us in unhealthy habits which distract us from our true selves and our God-given purpose. With honesty and practical wisdom, Ehman explores why we fall into people-pleasing...
Do You Neighbor?
I don’t know about you, but the thought of knocking on my neighbor’s doors to invite them to Bible study makes my knees knock. Why would God ask me to do a crazy thing like that? Surely He knows it’s not my calling to go calling on my neighbors. A Cafe Called Home He had given me the idea to start a neighborhood Bible study called The Rosewood Café after our address on Rosewood Drive, yet it didn’t seem that the women in my neighborhood were going to miraculously come and enter my home, as God...
Control Girl
Control Girl: Lessons on Surrendering Your Burden of Control from Seven Women in the Bibleby Shannon Popkin Little fights with your husband and kids. Unhappiness when things don't match your version of perfect. Tension, anger, fear, anxiety--it all begins with a heart that craves control. When your perspective of how life should go replaces God's, you doom your quest for security, peace, and joy before it even starts. Thankfully, there is a better way. Join Shannon as she shares what she has...
Sacred Work
Sacred WorkBy Peggy Bodde It’s possible for women to be strong Christians and confident leaders. Does your work matter to God? Peggy Bodde thinks so! God lives in us, and we carry the sacredness that comes from Him everywhere we go, including the workplace. But while there are more women in the workforce than ever, women are also time-starved, stressed, and tired. And they often feel alone in their professional struggles. Mentor and longtime corporate leader, Peggy Bodde, views work as sacred...
Holy Week Reading
Travel with Jesus along the "Via Dolorosa," which means "Way of Suffering," as you remember His route to the cross during Holy Week. I've combined the Easter accounts from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John into one continuous reading. Reminiscent of the stations of the cross honored by many Christian traditions, the readings are separated into the major events of Holy Week:Maundy Thursday The Last Supper Garden of Gethsemane Betrayal of Judas Accusation by the Jews Denial of Peter and Abandonment...
