The Wholehearted Blog

When we see how beautifully, deeply, and wisely Christ loves us, following him shifts from a crushing ideal that we can never live out, to a natural overflow of our...

Sister — we don’t have to choose between sitting in the discomfort of our grief AND entrusting ourselves to God’s plan in our grief. In these moments, your quiet time probably...

Daily quiet time is like living in a home of mirrors. We get to walk into the different rooms of our personalities and internal emotions and see exactly what we...

We see this practice begin to develop even in Jesus’ boyhood. After days of separation from his family, he tells his frantic, worried mother, “Did you not know I must be...

When we are in busy and challenging seasons it’s even more vital that we fight for time in His word and prayer because we need His strength and grace, and...

If we seek an experience, that’s likely all we’ll get. Yet experience cannot sustain us for long when we go back to the ordinary, difficult, and mundane.If we seek Jesus, we’ll find...

At this point in the year, perhaps you’re starting to lose the motivation to keep your New Year’s resolutions. Maybe your goal for 2023 of having regular quiet time doesn’t...

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 (NIV)When Jesus called my heart to follow him, I began to understand how much...

If you’re in a relationship, this probably doesn’t sound very foreign to you. Conflict, hard feelings, and misunderstandings are natural parts of relationships.My husband and I have been joyfully married...