Category Archives: Fear

Blooming

by Christine Brown

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
-Jim Elliot
Don’t strain your eyes to see the future –
for you will not be able to see clearly what God wants you to see now.
-Elisabeth Elliot

Looks like the Elliots had a good handle on [...]

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The Best Piece of Advice

Last fall, a YLCF reader named Amanda asked me some fun and thought-provoking questions for an interview over at Feelin’ Feminine.  The one that really gave me pause was this: “What is the best advice you have ever received?”  Not just the best advice I’d read, or the best advice I’d given, but the best [...]

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The Giant Fear

Have you ever seen a giant, or perhaps you’ve heard it noised about the camp that “there be giants in the land”? Let me tell you, it is all too true. There are giants out there, and they will get you if you don’t watch out.
I rather think that the giants I see might not [...]

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Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling
Part Two

Click here if you missed Part One.
We often speak of things such as being a wife or mother as God’s calling. “This is my highest and noblest calling,” we might declare. I beg to differ. God’s calling to a life is the thing that will never, under any circumstance, change in that life. Throughout scripture [...]

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Marriage Is Not My Highest Calling

I believe strongly and wholeheartedly in solid, godly marriages. Marriage is an awe-inspiring, truly blissful thing and something to be lauded and heralded as the God-ordained institution it is. We are people created for marriage and, once married, we should strive daily, at every possible opportunity to encourage each other toward even stronger, even holier marriages.
But marriage is not [...]

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