A Mom's Prayers for Her Son by Rob & Joanna Teigen: A Book Review There's nothing like becoming a mother to ratchet up the frequency, sincerity, and desperation of one's prayer life. My husband and I had four boys in eight years, and I was horrified to realize that a new blender comes with more instructions than… Continue reading The Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Son
Author: Michele Morin
Michele Morin is a Bible teacher, writer, reader, and gardener committed to the truth that women can become confident Christ-followers and students of God's Word. She has been married to an unreasonably patient husband for thirty-plus years, and together they have four married sons and a growing fleet of adorable grandchildren.
Michele loves hot tea and well-crafted sentences, poems that stop her in her tracks, and days at the ocean with the whole family. She laments biblical illiteracy and advocates for the prudent use of “little minutes.”
She blogs at Living Our Days, and you can connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
Danger Signs
John Owen did not exactly hang a sign saying, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" over the door of this chapter, but he has given a stern warning to those who would dally with sin. Over all six of Chapter 9's ominous symptoms, Owen's exhortation from Chapter 2 hangs like a dark banner: "Do you mortify;… Continue reading Danger Signs
50 World Changers
50 Women Every Christian Should Know by Michelle DeRusha: A Book Review The fifty women profiled in this feat of meticulous research were definitely world changers. Covering over 900 years of Christian history, Michelle DeRusha has included the familiar names of recent history (Flannery O'Connor, Ruth Bell Graham); the less familiar names of previous centuries… Continue reading 50 World Changers
Image Management and the Gospel
Over-eating is an embarrassing sin. There may be a few others that rival the obvious and detectable nature of its presence in a person's life, but I don't think so. Those extra calories are there for all the world to see, filling up waist bands, bulging behind buttons, and squishing out over a starched collar. I hate it.… Continue reading Image Management and the Gospel
Proverbs for Wise Living
Get Wise by Bob Merritt: A Book Review Thank you, Bob Merritt, for doing what I have always wanted to do: sifting through the random assortment of life-giving wisdom in the book of Proverbs and categorizing the verses according to theme. As a pastor, Merritt knows that the book of Proverbs contains the wise words that our hearts… Continue reading Proverbs for Wise Living
Traffic-Proof Your Children
Stolen by Katariina Rosenblatt, PhD and Cecil Murphey: A Book Review When my children were small, the traffic I worried about had four wheels and was engine-powered. We could avoid the danger by staying away from the road. Stolen will open the reader's eyes to another danger which shares the same name, but with grave differences: it comes looking for… Continue reading Traffic-Proof Your Children
What Do They Really Need?
Fourteen years as a missionary in Cambodia changes your view of God. It changes the way you stand in front of a church and give a report. "This is what God did" somehow gets sorted out from "This is what I thought He was doing at the time" and "This is what I expected." In fourteen years, a… Continue reading What Do They Really Need?
Rubik’s Cube of Interlocking Crimes
A Promise to Protect by Patricia Bradley: A Book Review Author Patricia Bradley has created a page-turning Rubik's Cube of interlocking crimes. The book starts out with a bang -- literally, as Dr. Leigh Somerall's beloved brother is murdered at gunpoint. Was his murderer connected somehow to the shots fired at Leigh? Or was the… Continue reading Rubik’s Cube of Interlocking Crimes
An Open Letter to My First Mentor
The Non-methodical Method
I'm with Paul. When he vents in Romans 7 about his "captivity to the law of sin," I hear a howl of frustration. For Paul, for me, sin is an inside job, and we are all betrayed by our own mortal flesh before we open our eyes in the morning. But then, being Paul, he… Continue reading The Non-methodical Method
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