Blog Posts
Abiding: Trials are the Funniest Things
Trials in life are the funniest things. We often fear they will break us, but when God is in our corner, suffering merely results in a growth spurt, albeit a painful one. I have been through many such growth spurts. Maybe you have, too? Some of them have been moderately challenging, while others have threatened…
Abiding: Be a Lois or a Eunice
One day, as God has predetermined, we all mark the end of our existence here. As a Christian woman, a Christian wife, mother, and even grandmother, what do we hope to leave behind when we’re gone? What will that time we were given say about our faith? What will the impact of our life be…
Abiding: Submission in Prayer
Today we are facing enormous challenges. Our health is threatened by the coronavirus. Our financial stability may be in question due to changes in our work environments, or perhaps the struggle is the inability to work at all. For some of us in the Valley, our very homes were endangered by wildfires, and sadly for…
Abiding: Waiting and Praising
Today in our Abiding study we’re reading a Gospel account of two ordinary people whose relationships with God in prayer were profound. One man, Simeon, and one woman, Anna, would experience the greatest of blessings as they saw the Christ Child (Luke 2:22-38). As their story begins, we see that Joseph and Mary had taken…
Abiding: Grace from the Vine
In John 15, which we read this week in anticipation of our Abiding series, Jesus is sitting with His disciples during the Last Supper, encouraging them and preparing them for what they are going to face in the near future. He talks about Himself being a vine, one much like my garden pumpkins, and says…
Abiding: Our First and Best Action
Editor’s Note: Beginning this Thursday, UFC Women will begin Abiding, a short study of several Old and New Testament women who had encounters with God through prayer and with Jesus in personal interactions. We encourage you to sit long with John 15:1-11 in preparation for our time together in-person and on Zoom this Thursday at…