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Cultivating A Joyful Thanksgiving

November 21, 2022 by Courtney Leave a Comment

Cultivating A Joyful Thanksgiving

My mom is the epitome of joy.  She taught us to live joyfully.  It was all we knew of childhood. A relationship with Jesus, a heart full of gratitude, a spirit of contentment, and happiness in the little things–it was the way of life.  I never knew my mom was fascilitaing anything other than the ordinary. […]

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Filed Under: Building Family Culture, Give Thanks, Living Simply, Motherhood, My Heart, Prepare Him Room, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: a Joyful Thanksgiving, Building Family Culture, children, Christmas, encouragement, family holidays, giving thanks, God's Love, holidays, Jesus, Jesus' love, joy, love of Jesus, making holidays special, Motherhood, Music, parenthood, parenting, peace, quality time, Raising Boys, season of gratitude, seasons, special days, Spiritual Growth, thankfulness, thanksgiving, Thanksgiving traditions

When Your New Year Longs for Rest in Him

January 1, 2020 by Courtney 8 Comments

When Your New Year Longs for Rest in Him

Fresh and new, a clean slate to write a new story. I love making goals and plans. I’m not at all opposed to resolutions. We might as well “try better” at some point and I think the first day of a fresh year is absolutely suitable for pressing the restart button. I love dreaming and […]

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Filed Under: A Life with Jesus, Compassion Bloggers, Grace for the Weekend, Living Simply, My Heart, Prepare Him Room, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: Compassion Bloggers, control, control idol, encouragement, fresh year, Jesus, Jesus' love, laying it down, Let Every Heart, love of Jesus, New Year, peace, prayer, Resolutions, rest, restoration, restore, Spiritual Growth, surrender, thrive

The Most Powerful Lesson We Can Teach our Children, Guest Post by Kristen Welch

May 1, 2018 by Courtney Leave a Comment

The Most Powerful Lesson We Can Teach our Children, Guest Post by Kristen Welch

Guest post by author, Kristen Welch of Raising World Changers in a Changing World. Guest author, Kristen, has also written two other books: Rhinestone Jesus and Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World. It is an honor to host Kristen on the blog today.

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Filed Under: Building Family Culture, Guest Post, Living Simply, Missions, Motherhood, My Heart, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: books, Building Family Culture, guest post, international missions, Kristen Welch, living missionally, Mercy House, missional living, Missions, Motherhood, parenting, raising children, Raising World Changers Book, Spiritual Growth, train up a child, world changers

Jesus Next Door: Loving Your Neighbor in Obedience to God

October 15, 2017 by Courtney 2 Comments

Jesus Next Door: Loving Your Neighbor in Obedience to God

Ideas for and a personal story about loving your neighbor in the ordinary.

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Filed Under: A Life with Jesus, Hospitality, Living Simply, Missions, My Heart, Spiritual Growth, Write 31 Days Tagged With: community, God's Sovereignty, grace, living missionally, Love Thy Neighbor, missional living, Missions, neighborhood, neighbors, obedience, relationship building, the love of God, Write 31 Days

When We Leave a Role Behind: We are the Hope Women Lighting Candles at Home

January 24, 2017 by Courtney 1 Comment

When We Leave a Role Behind: We are the Hope Women Lighting Candles at Home

A few years ago, my life was defined a bit differently.  At least in my own heart, I was defining my life differently.  I think that’s a natural part of the journey.  Growing, changing, and being made new by the sanctifying grace of Jesus. It’s a natural part of growth for so many of us. […]

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Filed Under: A Life with Jesus, Living Simply, My Heart, Sisterhood, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: another person in your ministry role, for His glory and by His grace, leadership roles, leaving leadership, leaving ministry, leaving ministry roles, leaving ministry to someone else, leaving your job to someone else, ministry roles, passing on a ministry role, passing on leadership, resignation, resignation from ministry, resigning, serving together in ministry, sovereign grace, sovereign grace in ministry, the Kingdom of God, when you leave a ministry, women in ministry, working together for the Kingdom of God

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