The Wholehearted Blog

Amber Ginter is a teacher, author, blogger, and mental health activist who resides in the beautiful mountains and cornfields of Ohio. She loves Jesus, granola, singing, reading, dancing, running, her fiance...

Part of the struggle of choosing a Bible reading plan is deciding what we want to read that year. The other part of the struggle is the looming fear that...

What word comes to mind when you think about spiritual disciplines?Is it FUN?Probably not.We tend to think that fun is incompatible with spiritual growth, but what if the opposite is...

Our discipline should be driven by our desire to obey, be near, and become like our beautiful Jesus.  But sometimes, we can be motivated by pride or even fear. We find ourselves...

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...

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...

One of the main reasons we struggle with having a quiet time is that it is often unenjoyable. Prayer can feel monotonous, Scripture can seem dull, and worship can feel...

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...