Virtual VBS Week One Highlights: Standing on the Promises

Welcome to Virtual VBS for GrownUp Girls® 2017 Week One! This year we’re meeting in a private Facebook group, where it’s easier for us to comment, share posts, videos, and images in real time. You’re welcome to join us anytime by clicking here. For those who don’t do Facebook or just want the highlights, here’s […]

Let Us Go Out to Him

A Reflection on Ash Wednesday

“Under the old system, the high priest brought the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, and the bodies of the animals were burned outside the camp. So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates to make his people holy by means of his own blood. So let us […]

When Your Heart’s Not In It

... and Serving God Feels Like a Chore

I was searching the online concordance for a verse on joy, thinking perhaps one of those beautiful verses in the Psalms… Suddenly this verse popped up, from Deuteronomy 28:47. I tried to skip over it – a verse in the middle of a story, and a difficult verse, at that– dripping with pain. Not the […]

5 Things You Can Do to Have a Happier (Less-Stressed) Holiday

Five Things You Can Do to Have a Happier Less-Stressed Holiday by Christin Ditchfield

This time of year, it’s easy to feel more stressed than blessed — overwhelmed by all the extra commitments and responsibilities. Anxious, hassled, frazzled. It’s true that some things are out of our control… life happens, even at the holidays. Maybe even especially at the holidays. But there are some things you can do to […]