Real World Bible Study

3 Questions that More than Words can Say Made Me Ask “Please marry me to save my business.”  Ok, that’s not a word-for-word quote.  But you get the idea. Usually, if you saw something like this in a story, you would think there were financial problems.  But Abby’s problem isn’t money.  Her business is going great.  The only problem is, she…
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Here’s something true.  This is a Bible study blog.  And Christians should read the Bible.  But what else should we read?  The truth is that entertainment is an important part of our lives.  It’s part of how we rest and play (things that God does too!).  Sure, entertainment done wrong can hijack our lives and our sleep, or can gradually…
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Dear Little Sister, (You know who you are.  And I’ll have to send you the link to this post, because I know you won’t see it otherwise!). Last week I read a book that was hard to read.  Not, like, technically difficult, but challenging.  It didn’t make me cry then, but it might now.  It was a book about cancer,…
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According to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), “approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. (46.6 million) experiences mental illness in a given year.” That’s a staggering statistic (and one I’ve been a part of), especially for something we don’t talk about all that much.  And there are more like it.  Mental illness affects you or someone you know…
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