6 Tips for Aspiring Christian Writers

All sorts of people want to write; few actually do. If this describes you, here are six tips for Christian writers to help you get started. More
All sorts of people want to write; few actually do. If this describes you, here are six tips for Christian writers to help you get started. More
Please tell me I’m not alone: Sometimes, we women could use a little help to make a man feel loved. I’ve got your back with these twelve ideas. More
He says he believes in God, but then again, so do the demons (James 2:19). So how can you know–really know–if he’s a Christian? More
Urgent headlines will soon replace the current Afghanistan headlines; but may the people of Afghanistan not fade from our hearts or our prayers anytime soon. More
“I’m so scared to trust God with my love life,” she confessed. As a single, I had the same fear: If I chose to trust God with my love life, would He interpret my “surrender” as an irretrievable permission slip to withhold my greatest desire from me? More
Should I leave my unbelieving husband?
“Marriage is supposed to be two-as-one,” she wrote me after leaving her unbelieving husband. “But that’s not how it was for us; We were not one.”
This woman had returned to the Lord while still married, but her husband persisted in unbelief. Her statement raises an important question: Should you leave your unbelieving husband? Does oneness in marriage require that both you and your husband love Jesus? Attend church? Pray together? More
“Are you drawn to other men after marriage? Does your heart still wander toward them?” Several of you have asked me variations of this question since writing Confessions of a Boy-Crazy Girl, so I thought I’d answer publicly. More
“You hardly looked at each other all week,” she observed of me and Trevor after six short days of life with us. (It was 2019, and we’d invited her to live with us as long as she needed. She’d finally filed for a year-long restraining order on her husband after thirty-four years of physical, verbal, and mental abuse.) When we opened our home to her, we invited her to freely speak into our lives about whatever she observed in our parenting or our marriage—nothing was off-limits. More
I noticed Michelle for several reasons. In addition to her beauty and penchant for bright colors, I’d never seen her at church before, and she sat alone in the front row. When I introduced myself, I learned why Michelle sat up front: She was Deaf. She also read lips. A few weeks later, I invited Michelle to pick blueberries with me. Would we be able to communicate? I wondered with trepidation as I picked her up. More
I dialed her number as soon as I scanned her email. “Great balls of fire!” I greeted her (well, something like that).
The relief in her voice was apparent, “I didn’t know if I should forward the email to you, but then I thought, ‘Yes, she’s my friend.’” More