The Wholehearted Blog

One morning, I was praying about my attitude when a thought entered my mind:Things don’t slow down. People do. Christmas wasn’t the culprit of the crazy pace. I was. I wish you couldn’t relate, but...

We transform our words when we transform our thoughts by remembering the truth of the gospel. When I am tempted to complain about my circumstances, the Lord teaches me to...

Without the Holy Spirit of God, we would be orphans without assurance of salvation, unable to witness or speak the words of God with confidence. We would be vulnerable, weak,...

I have a tendency to follow my emotions. Even as a very young child, I was always especially sensitive, emotional, and easily swayed by my feelings. For decades, I found...

Every relationship has a combination of “head over heels” days and “please don’t speak to me until tomorrow” days. Even in the mere six months that I have been married,...

Discipline brings us rest and peace. When we train ourselves for godliness as 1 Timothy promises, we will experience benefits in this life and in the next. If we’ve been...

Stepping Heavenward is a fictional collection of journal entries from a nineteenth-century girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katherine or “Katie” Mortimer is passionate, witty, and full of zest for life. Her antics...

We can bet that if the negligence of our physical bodies is detrimental to our health, then spiritual negligence harms our souls. But a healthy soul is harder to see...

Several years ago, I began to recognize I needed to grow in the disciple of prayer. Even though I had been a Christian for most of my life, I felt...