When Your Husband is Snared by Sexual Sin

When our husbands are snared in sexual sin, where do we go for answers? Click To Tweet Cassie’s life reflected peaceful perfection. Three beautiful young kids, a stylish new home, all topped off with her handsome husband she adored. They met and fell head-over-heels in love at the young age of eighteen, and now ten years later were joyfully living out the American dream.  Until, that is, venomous pictures popped up without warning early one morning. Images spilling from the screen, forgotten to be deleted from the computer’s history, reached out tearing into this sheltered young mother’s soul. Her tranquil, in-control …

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MATRIARCHS – NAOMI: Not Forsaken

WELCOME to WEEK 4 of MATRIARCHS!    Study God’s Word with us online or use them in your small group or Sunday School class!  Each lesson includes: Teaching video every Monday (15-20 minutes) Short lesson provided as the content of the post In-depth downloadable PDF to deepen your study Worksheets that take you even deeper ALL LESSONS ARE FREE AND YOU CAN MAKE AS MANY COPIES AS YOU’D LIKE! Please be sure to email us and let us know if you’re doing a Bible study with your small group or at church!    If you can’t view this video in your reader, …

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Paddling Against the Current

Have you ever tried to paddle a boat upstream? It’s extremely difficult. When I was twenty-two-years-old, I was kayaking with a friend down south in the Keys. I was paddling as hard as I could upstream to get back through the inlet and to the boat landing. We had been paddling for several hours, and I was wiped out and dehydrated. I could feel the muscles in my arms burning. I was like a salmon coming home to its nesting grounds, pink, sunburnt and haggard. I reached a moment during that paddle that I didn’t think I could make it any further. I could see …

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She Laughs

The past few years I have been learning to work with yarn—both knitting and crocheting. Lately I have been learning to change colors mid-stream. Not being an expert, I often struggle with transitioning—ending and weaving in one color and beginning another. And it shows! So it is in life. The end of one journey is a sure sign of the beginning of another. No matter how hard or even wonderful the ending may be, the beginning holds out hope like a torch. In our races, we grasp the torch and press on, running ahead. However, the transition again can create potential for …

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Matriarch Study: Rebekah – Mothering Through Barrenness

  WELCOME to WEEK 3 of MATRIARCHS! Study God’s Word with us online! We created these resources to make it easy for you to join us online…AND to use in a small group.  Each lesson includes: Teaching video every Monday  Short lesson provided as the content of the post In-depth downloadable PDF to deepen your study ALL LESSONS ARE FREE AND YOU CAN MAKE AS MANY COPIES AS YOU’D LIKE! Please be sure to email us and let us know if you’re doing a Bible study with your small group or at church!  Rebekah… Grace for the Flawed, Blessings for the Barren   …

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You Might Be a Ministry Leader If…

As I stood with women surrounding me on every side at a Beth Moore simulcast, I scanned the room. It was filled with women worshipping God in unison. Raising holy hands to the Holy One and singing with a single focus on the Savior who had saved their souls. The tears puddled up in my eyes as I wondered what God must have thought. How the beauty of women worshipping Him with once voice must have made His heart smile big time! Events like that don’t just happen. Bible studies, conferences, luncheons, teas, MOM Groups, Titus 2 groups, and a …

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The Paradox of Motherhood

I remember the day a newly-engaged young woman asked me a thought-provoking question. “What do you love most about being a mom?” Her eyes glittered, fresh with the hope of someday–after choosing wedding colors and the perfect white dress–embracing the season I was living.  A mom of five kids under the age of ten, my life was a daily blur of diapers and dishes, homework helping and hand-holding. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d slept through the night. Or gone to bathroom alone. Or curled up on the couch and read a book with a plot line more intricate than Green …

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No Eat Play-Doh

No Eat Play-Doh: Obedience Training for Moms

“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says” (James 1:22). “Momma, no eat pee-doh!” I stopped fixing my hair and looked down at my toddler standing in the bathroom doorway. A chunk of green Play-Doh sat in the palm of her hand, which she held out toward my face to illustrate her point. “That’s right, sweetheart. We don’t eat Play-Doh.” Wow, after months of hammering home this rule, it had finally sunk in. I was proud and amused at the same time. I’ve read parents need to reinforce a concept up to a …

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How to Pray for the Parents of Our Grandchildren

Recently I had the joy of ‘meeting’ Lillian Penner through a phone conversation and I instantly loved her heart for God, for God’s girls and for the need to bridge the generation gap and embrace the godly influence that grandparents can have in the lives of their children and grandchildren. I asked her to share some words of wisdom here at The MOM Initiative. SO without further ado, here’s Lillian sharing How to Pray for the Parents of Our Grandchildren.   The parents of our grandchildren have a great responsibility parenting our grandchildren in these insecure, unstable times we live in. …

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MATRIARCHS: SARAH – The Mother of Nations

WELCOME to WEEK 2 of MATRIARCHS! Study God’s Word with us online! We created these resources to make it easy for you to join us online…AND to use in a small group.  Each lesson includes: Teaching video every Monday  Short lesson provided as the content of the post In-depth downloadable PDF to deepen your study ALL LESSONS ARE FREE AND YOU CAN MAKE AS MANY COPIES AS YOU’D LIKE! Please be sure to email us and let us know if you’re doing a Bible study with your small group or at church!  SARAH If you can’t view this video in your reader, please …

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