Clean (the least favorite room) with Me!

March 27, 2024April 2, 2024 RefreshHerLeave a comment

After some good input from you, my dear readers, I have started a new series on my podcast today! It’s a “Clean with me” series that will help you get your entire house sparkling this spring! You can listen to it here!

I hope my podcast will inspire and motivate you as we go together room by room through your house, one room a week. Today’s podcast will:

Give you the understanding about why it even matters that our house is orderly.
Give you tips and tools that will help you clean more effectively.
Guide you step by step so that in about 30 minutes, you will have cleaned the entire room!

Here are a few peeks into my cleaning venture this last week…

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A Hidden Life of Prayer Makes ALL the Difference

March 20, 2024March 19, 2024 RefreshHerLeave a comment

You can listen to this post here on the Refresh Her podcast.

During the Coronavirus time, did you feel helpless? You may have looked at your own abilities or your influence and wondered what you could do.

During the time of violence and hatred in our country, did you wonder how you could make a difference?

God gives us a beautiful picture of someone in the Bible who could have felt unqualified to do anything about the hard circumstances in which he found himself. That person was Elijah.

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Biblical Womanhood · home · podcast · Wife's Role

Spending Up the Treasure of a Godly Home

January 31, 2024January 29, 2024 RefreshHerLeave a comment

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Have you heard of people who win millions of dollars, then end up being paupers in a decade or less? It happens. They foolishly spend up their winnings, rather than using it wisely. In a much more severe loss than even material gain, you and I can waste away the treasure of a godly home, losing the valuable gift that God desires for every family. There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man spendeth it up. Proverbs 21:20

How do we spend up the treasure of a godly home?

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Conflict · ministry · podcast

Practical Help When You’re Drowning in the Hurts of Ministry, Part 3

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 RefreshHer4 Comments

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The dishwater was warm and sudsy and I was busy at work cleaning up the supper dishes, but my mind was in a totally different place. Mentally I was re-reading the email that had been sent. It was a letter of betrayal and the ending of a friendship. I was shocked, hurt and reeling from the surprise of it all. We had ministered together in church. We had prayed over burdens and cared for one another’s griefs, but now she was gone, from the church and my life.

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ministry · podcast

Drowning in the Hurts of Ministry, Part 2 – When God Hides His Face

January 10, 2024January 7, 2024 RefreshHerLeave a comment

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It’s certainly not my desire in these posts to make light of church members, but I long to help the ministry woman who is dealing with difficult things in the ministry in which she is serving. It’s a real part of life and of the church to deal with painful issues. So let’s continue to answer the question, How can we endure when things get difficult?

Part one is here. Let’s continue our discussion about David who was running for his life from his son Absalom.

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