Enjoy the holiday season by cozying up with a warm blanket and a cup of hot tea and getting wrapped up with a Love Inspired Christmas book! TEXAS CHRISTMAS TWINS by Deb Kastner Miranda Morgan’s Christmas will be twice as …
Advent 2017: Hope Behind a Chain-linked Fence
Inside the eyes of refugee children, I found myself swimming in hope this week. It wasn’t the kind of hope that I expect during the holidays. It didn’t come with bells or fancy songs or a thousand lights. But this …
Advent 2017: Long Waits and Heavy Hopes
My husband carried the tree into the house, and – like magic – it felt like Christmas. We gingerly carried the massive evergreen through the house, my children jumping up and down as pine needles dripped to the floor. Just …
Hope: Advent Devotional
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. – Isaiah 9:2 If you are going through this devotional with your family, you can go to …
Advent 2017
Here at MOPS, we know the joys and stresses of the Christmas season, and the many distractions that keep our families and ourselves from the real joy of the season. So, we’ve collaborated with a new dear author friend, Asheritah …
Let Love Be The Loudest Voice
I turned my shopping cart down the next aisle and felt a familiar tension creep into my neck. The trees, lights, wreaths, ornaments, candy canes and wrapping paper exploded in green and red. That familiar tension in my neck was …
Stewarding The Story
Kids and The Christmas Story Christmas and kids were made for each other. The main attraction in the story is a baby surrounded by animals, after all. It’s like God wrote this chapter with a younger audience in mind. No …
The Memory of Every Day
This was my first year as a mom of a full-time student. My littlest is still home with me in the mornings, but my oldest daughter, Iris, is a full-fledged, all-day kindergartner and proud of it. As it is our …
Falling Toward Joy
How 10 Minutes a Day Can Change Your Christmas Hope, Love, Joy and Peace are the themes of the season. At church services around the world candles are being lit this month in honor of these holiday virtues. And yet …
Wholeness, in Parts
I texted a group of mom friends this question: During the crazy holiday season, how do you create peace and wholeness – shalom – for your family? One mom responded that she needed some time to think about it and …