Common-sense grace for the try-hard girl
INSIDE: You’ll learn easy ways to study the Word of God every woman can use. If you’ve ever wondered how to read God’s Word effectively, listen in to Grace In Real Life Episode 148 with Portia Collins. I’m 99% sure that you read the Bible. Maybe you read a verse a day or are reading […]
Inside: Here’s how to spread the gospel without feeling awkward. This is evangelism without knocking on the doors of strangers. Listen in to Episode 147 of Grace In Real Life with Twyla Franz. Jesus calls us to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the […]
I cannot tell a lie. After Bible Study Fellowship is over or on break, I feel a bit lost about what to study. While my quiet time is still intact, my regular routine of meeting with other women to talk about God goes away, and I have no idea what to study. What’s a grace […]
What’s tired in your life? What area feels depleted? Today we’re talking about embracing a lifestyle of rest, including how to rest when you’re emotionally exhausted. If I were to ask every listener if she struggled with rest, I’m guessing 99.9% of you would say yes. When we rest, we feel: Guilty Unproductive Like it’s […]
Today we’re talking about the spiritual discipline of spending time with Jesus. Is there any more transformational practice than spending time with Jesus? When we talk with Him and listen to Him and love Him and let Him love us back, it changes everything. We are no longer who we were after we’ve spent time […]
Today we’re talking about the spiritual discipline of paying attention and awakening to God’s love for you. Through this series on spiritual health, I want us – women of God and sisters in Christ – to be healthy and to shed who we are not and the false narratives that don’t serve us well so we […]
As we close out one year and move toward a new one, we want to reflect. We are drawn to the contemplative art of studying what was and what will be. What gentle questions do we ask ourselves? Where do we begin? This is my simple, gentle way to ease you into saying goodbye to […]
We read to learn. To feel. To imagine what it might be like to live in a different era. We read to experience more than what one person could possibly live in one lifetime. I read over 30 books in 2022, and these are my book recommendations: the ones I recommend to everyone, the ones […]
The story of Christ’s time on earth is the story of peace as a palindrome, you know: one of those words that reads the same forwards and backward. When Jesus was born, He came as Immanuel, God With Us. When Jesus died, was buried, rose again on the third day, and ascended into heaven, He […]
Joy is at the heart of Christ. And yet, joy is the noun I struggle with most. Joy causes a hitch in my throat that says, “But wait; what about all the hurt and sadness and violence?” Joy feels irrelevant or off-key or out of step in a world where: Human trafficking and slavery exist Women […]