The Wholehearted Blog

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...

Puritan Thomas Watson once said, “The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fires of meditation.” I believe...

It’s hard to have a quiet time in the morning—before school, before exercising, before work, before the kids, before the alarm, before my husband gets up…It’s hard to have a...

I used to treat time with Jesus as just another desire. I would wait for my desires to spiral me toward spending time with Jesus. I would neglect to seek...

As a society, we have caught on to the notion that if we want to make positive changes in our life, and create habits that stick, we need to know...

Creating a daily quiet time with Jesus has meant a lot of dying to self for me. My sinful nature is very selfish and pleasure-seeking. I want what I want when I...

When do you think about God?Is it on Sunday mornings in church? Or when you catch a glimpse of the Bible in a stack of books? Maybe it’s when you...

In a world that functions at breakneck speeds, it takes intentional, deliberate choices to slow down and carve out time for us to seek the Lord, let alone to make...

I’ve had daily time with Jesus as a daughter and now as a mother; in loneliness and while surrounded by children. In both grief and joy, failure and success, I’ve...