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Mary Kassian, the founder of Girls Gone Wise, is an award winning author, internationally renowned speaker, and distinguished professor of Women's Studies at Southern Baptist Seminary.
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Excellent study, Mary. I thank the Lord for your service to Him and Praise Him for sisters that delight and proclaims His Truth where so much fluff is being proclaimed.
May God bless you richly and multiply your efforts for His Glory and expansion of His kingdom.
gloria
Mary, I just wanted to thank you for such a powerful and practical bible study Conversation peace. When our women’s group finished it, they all voted to immediately go back and do it all again because they thought there was just so much in it that needed to be learned.It has helped all of us in our relationships at home, work and church and the workbook is something that should be reviewed on a weekly basis!!
Hearts have been changed and we thank God for using you in such a powerful way! Keep it up!
Mitzi Ekers, Wesley United Methodist Church
St. Petersburg, FL
Mary, I am enjoying your study “Vertically Inclined, very much. Tonight we watched session 3. As I watched you talk about David Thompson, I felt his life was filled with ‘pride’. He gazed upward but his eyes stopped at the stars. Instead of reflecting the Holy Spirit, I saw a man trying to fill his life with his own needs of accomplishments. I wondered if this had been discussed before in any of your groups. Thank you so much for all your study and making this available to us.
I haven’t heard of this being discussed. You’d probably have to read some David Thompson biographies to get a better feel for what was in his heart. Glad you’re enjoying the study!
Dear Mary,
I heard of your ministry through listening to Revive Our Hearts on the way to work. I would like to offer you a free copy of my father’s book. My father, a biblical counselor for nearly 30 years has published a book entitled, “The Heart of Man the Mental Disorders- How the Word of God is Sufficient.†This book demonstrates how God’s Word is alone sufficient to help man with his mental / emotional struggles. The book also covers each disorder in the DSM-IV-TR. Would you be interested in a free copy of this book? If you are interested, please let me know what address to send the book to. Thank you for your time, and may the LORD bless your ministry for Him (Ps. 90).
Jon Thomson
Dear Jon, I’m sure you are really sincere in thinking that the scriptures can cure all mental illnesses, but has it ever occurred to you that it is through some mental illnesses that God is able to accomplish what He wants to in somebody, that He might not be able to accomplish otherwise?
I can give a long testimony about this if you’d like. The Lord brought bi-polar disorder onto me, which is typically a mood disorder. Only I have manic episodes with delusions and psychosis. HOWEVER, when God took me into those manic episodes, He was in complete control of my life anyhow. It’s too long of a story to post here, but it was only through this disorder that God was able to get through to me what He needed to get through to me. As the bible says, “God’s way is perfect”. But I must take an anti-psychotic medicine for this disorder.
I will tell you, that it is ONLY through daily scripture studying, plus doing women’s bible study, that my medicine is allowed to work. I can’t get by with the 1 hour devotional time like others, I must do at least 3 hours of bible reading, bible studies, and prayers each day. If I cut back on this, then up I go, again (too manicy).
If the doctors had their way, I’d be on much more medicine, a higher dose, and I’d be too LAZY. I am only able to take a lower dose because of God and His WORD!!
Would you believe, that I have manic depression disorder, yet when I’m in a downward slump, I do not FEEL depressed, I mean mentally I do not feel depressed? My body feels depressed, my health problems get worse, but as far as my actual mood goes, I’m not. I spend most of the day in the word and doing bible studies when like this, and it’s hard to be depressed when you stay in the word, and it’s hard to be depressed when you’ve got this almighty powerful God in heaven above who went to all this trouble just to reveal Himself to you (which He only could accomplish by bringing this mental illness onto me, along with other negative circumstances) God bless you, but christian churches need to be educated about mental illness.
I really enjoyed conversation peace, and am looking forward to doing vertically inclined, but I cannot find a copy of the tapes. I was able to buy the conversation peace tapes on ebay, (which I will never re-sell, it’s way too good) Thank God for women’s bible teachers like Mary and Beth Moore!!
Dear Mary,
I am very anxious for the book store to be in use because you see I have heard you speak a couple of times on Revive our Hearts and I really want to buy some of your books and studies, especially since you are a Canadian author which is just awesome. I must say that everytime I have heard you I have been proud to say she is Canadian and a christain who honors God by her teachings, WOW thank you. This is encouraging. So as you can see I can’t wait to know you better through your books, so when is the store going to be ready! God bless you abundantly for the wonderful way you exalt and glorify His name. Thank you Ann
Mary,
I have been teaching your bible study on Conversation Peace and I want you to know how wonderful it is. My class has doubled since we started this class. We all have learned so much from your study. You give us all hope for changing our lives and others. God Bless.
Dear Mary,
And so it will be back for fall as well because we have so many women who are anxious to complete the study. In 25 years of women’s ministry I can honestly say it is one of the very best I’ve ever had the pleasure of doing!
Our Bible study group gives thanks for the amazing transformation that took place in our lives as we worked through Conversation Peace together. I had led this study some years ago and made a suggestion to our women’s ministry director that we consider Conversation Peace for our summer study. Women were so transformed by this study they could not stop talking about it.
Blessings,
Val Anderson
Grace Bible Church
College Station, TX
Mary,
My Ladies Bible Study group finished “Vertically Inclined” today. We just loved it. You are an awesome teacher. We can’t wait to get started on “Conversation Peace”
Thank you for being such a blessing to us!
Jerrianne Pyles
Director of Christian Education
First United Methodist Church
Mt. Holly NC
Hello, Mary!
I wanted to stop in and say thanks for the encouraging mention here on your blog. All that was presented at TW remains at the forefront of my heart . . . must be the Spirit keeping it fresh in me, and I am so grateful.
Your message is of great interest to me, as I have been fascinated by the impact that marketing communications (which is my professional field) has on culture and society, and on women especially. In several posts on my blog I have referenced Jean Kilbourne’s work—are you familiar with her? Her book Can’t Buy My Love discusses the media’s impact on society, which is great, but I love that your message, being grounded in the Word, provides the context in which Christian women can counteract what’s been fed to us through media. Great stuff!
I’m also curious how your week of teaching went in Louisville. Sounds so exciting! Thanks again for your work and insights.
Sincerely, Erin
Thanks Erin! I appreciate the note. I’ll try to check into Jean Kilbourne if I get the chance.
Just for your interest. You mention in your introduction to “Knowing God by Name” that on internet your name is called a handle. This is not true in the U.S…At least I have been on the Internet for many years and never heard it. However,many years ago, people who used CB radio to contact each other, especially truckers, always used that term. Just thought it was interesting, the difference between Canada and U.S. I am 81 and have been involved in prayer ministry and teaching for over 40 years, and plan to keep on as long as He gives me breath.
Blessings to you.
You’re my hero! I hope that I’m still going strong when I’m 81! My Dad and Mom are both over 80 and are still “on a mission”! What great examples you are!
I heard you speak at the True Woman conference. Your message, Girls Gone Wild, was so powerful. I wanted to share it with the young women in our congregation so I was hoping to find it on DVD format but couldn’t. (I did purchase the CD but it is hard to keep their attention when there is not a visual person to watch) That message in that format (DVD) would be such a blessing to youth groups and women’s ministries all over, I hope that you would consider video taping it and making it available….I would be the first to purchase a few copies!
Thanks Linda. It’s on my list as a writing project – hopefully it’ll be out in a year or two.
I am reading Embracing God as a Father from Reviving our Hearts Radio, 2002. At the end of part one, you talk about how “tragic, arrogant and foolish”we are if we shy away from knowing God as our Father. As a victim of abuse, from a father who not only hated me, but wished me dead, the last thing I need to hear is how wrong my feelings are-the only Father I ever knew was evil, someone to be feared, who let me know on a daily basis how worthless, arrogant, stupid and foolish I was. I don’t need to hear that from you. I’m going to continue to read the rest of the series, because I truly do want to know how to relate to God as my Father, but you might want to be a little more careful, kind and compassionate when you refer to those you have no way of relating to. From what I understand, your father loved and cared for you-you’re one of the lucky ones.
My heart goes out to you, Tammy! I pray that you will indeed get to know him as Father. He is the “Father to the fatherless” and will heal and restore all those parts of your heart that have been damaged by your earthly father. May I suggest you do my Bible study, “In My Father’s House: Women relating to God as Father” It will help answer your questions, and does address the issue of women whose who have had negative and hurtful experiences with their earthly fathers.
Mary, I have enjoyed two of your Bible studies …
I am a transplanted Canadian … all our 3 kids were born in Edmonton many years ago. We have lived in Texas for 16 years. I think we could be friends … kindred spirits so to speak … I especially feel akin to your analagies … Vancouver Island, The Rocky Mountains. I feel right at home watching your videos. I miss it
At our recent silent auction at the church we bid on, and won, tickets to see a Houston Aeros hockey game … we even purchased extra tickets so my 2 boys and a girlfriend could come along. Lo and behold I noticed the name Kassian on a set of broad shoulders. I thought … hmmm, that’s not a common name around these parts … Brian … look it up on your iPhone and tell me where he is from and what his first name is ….
could this Matt Kassian be YOUR Matt Kassian?
I need to meet you…..
Yup! That’s my Matt. He’s on the last rung of the ladder, waiting for the big call up to the NHL. As a transplanted Canadian you must be glad to have a hockey team in Houston. Now if only they could keep the ice cold…
Unfortunately we don’t get to see much hockey, but now I’ll pay more attention to Mr Matt.
Do you get down this way much? For real, I want to meet you …
Not sure if we’re going to make it down for any playoff games. He’ll be coming home for the summer when he’s done.
Hey Mary,
I bumped into your website through Tim Challies. And it was very well done. I ahve friends who like The Shack, and so I posted your article on my blog. I hope that’s alright. I don’t really have that many viewers, but it may help others methinks.
if you don’t want me to post it, then let me know and I’ll delete it.
Great website BTW. Keep on. The Lord is so gracious and good to us. All for the Cross. Galatians 6:14
Your brother in Christ,
Don
I enjoyed reading your thoughts. I am an older woman, 62, grandmother of 14, mother of 5, 4 of whom are women. I live with my youngest daughter, her husband, and their 3 boys; we are an extended family. The Lord used this family, the witness and testimony of my daughter and son-in-law to share the good news through which blessed me at 54 to believe in Christ as my Lord and Savior. About 5 years ago is when they asked me if I would like to come live with them. It was a hard decision for us all.
It was harder to live that decision. I had to learn at this time in my life, and am still have a great way to grow in this area, hospitality, and what you discuss in your topic. My daughters, and son all come easy to this gift, I do not. The fact that God has blessed me with a family who is naturally hospitable while I am naturally reclusive ia amazing to me. I have learned from this process of learning to live with my daughter and her family, and visiting my other kids where they live all over the USA, how important it is to be eagerly hospitable. At times I have even enjoyed their hospitality, and now, I am starting to even help with it and to get to know those they share their family and home with, from time to time. Boy this has been a very hard thing for me to learn to obey the Lord in, at all, and even more, to now know that this is one ministry that all women are called to obey and partake of.
My son-in-law will be starting seminary next fall and one of the things we have talked about is the lives of a pastor’s family. The roles we must take on if we are to grow in godliness and be the ministers that each member of a pastor’s family needs to be to help him in his calling, and to grow in our walks that God has us growing in. We are praying about these roles, this impact it will have in each one of our lives… the entire role of how important hospitality will become as we go forward in this family choice and decision to answer God’s call on not just Ryan’s life, but our family’s life. I can no longer allow me to remain that reclusive hermit who has fought often to stay hidden in her room when people come visit – a very frequent occurance here. I have started to just help my daughter, to be her helper in the kitchen, or in preparing the home, and at times she has had to have me step in and see to the needs of our guests because she has been called away momentarily, something which I still hate because I have still have no clue on how to start and keep going conversation, let alone interesting and stimulating conversation.
Yet God has called us to these roles, and they truly serve the body of Christ, and are a witness and outreach to those we are trying to reach with the gospel in a vital living manner, a testimony to the power of Christ in us, of His compassion, mercy, and grace in all our lives each and every day. He says that they will know us by our love – hospitality is living the love. For me it is very hard, but it is also wonderful to obey Him and to see how He is using it as the very tool that is helping to shape me in my goal toward growth as a woman in godliness.
Who knew just being a warm loving woman towards friends and family and whoever God brings to your door could be such a gift!
Thanks so much for your thought provoking article.
Mary, Just a few words of appreciation for your Bible studies. Our women’s Sunday school class has done Conversation Peace (it was lifechanging for many-including myself) and we just finished Vertically Inclined this morning. We received much from the Lord thru the study, conviction – ouch!, hope, wisdom, inspiration to press onward and upward every day with and for Jesus! It may bless you to know that 4 women approached me to borrow the dvds to do the study again with a friend, mother etc…So the Word is going forth! Thank for for your labor in the Lord- we are blessed!
Dear Ms. Kassian,
I just started reading “The Feminist Mistake” and I tell you it has cleared up so much stuff and I am only on page 27! I think your progression really really describes the process – Naming self, naming the world and finally naming God. We black folks have followed a similar pattern and have in some sense made similar mistakes (Rev. Wright, liberation theology, etc). Yes corrections needed to be made, but then we started naming the world and God ethnically and I think we are no better than the feminist. I am a Westminster Seminary grad and now an pastor and struggle with wanting to treat my sisters right, but not violate Scripture for the sake of the marginalized (sounds crazy doesn’t it). You have done the Body of Christ a real service is writing this book and I know it took great courage. Thank you much.
Dear Mary,
I was reading your blog about the book The Shack as it was posted on Eric Ludy’s Bravehearted Gospel website and wanted to share something God showed me. God’s timing is amazing. I read the book last year and enjoyed it but saw it as fiction that had some good points. But when I read your comments on taking liberty with God’s image my heart was so convicted and appreciated the lesson. At the time that I read your blog I was in the middle of reading a book on Threshold covenants, in history and their significance to believers. Right after I read your blog I went back to reading and this is what I read. In some Islands in the sea there was a belief in a goddess named Vari or “the very beginning” of life who was a woman. Apparently she plucked off a piece of her side and it became a man who was named Vatea. From the under world there came to Vatae a supernatural woman called Papa or foundation and from their union the human race began. I would have probably not remembered the character from the shack if God had not taken me to your blog first. So the adversary is pulling out tricks from the past to see if another generation might fall for it. Just thought you might find it interesting. Thanks for setting me straight on messing with God’s image.
Melissa Russell
Dear Mary,
I have spent some time on your website and though I stand side by side with you in most issues, one thing especially bothers me. IN the most frequently asked questions section, about the honorarium and how (don’t remember exact wording) your income seems to be depended on in your family. This doesn’t seem to be in line with your teachings about feminism. Doesn’t the Word teach that we are to be dependent on our husbands as our providers and our primary role is to be keepers at home? Your lifestyle depicted in your Christmas letter seems quite upper class. Though there is nothing sinful about having an upper class lifestyle, it doesn’t all seem to fit very well with you being in ministry, receiving offerings that your family is dependent on. I pray that God will lead you to fully line up this area of your life with His Word, and do so under your husband’s leadership.
Thank you for comfirming that God’s way is the best way especially when dealing with relationships. I met an amazing christian man that I thought I might marry a few years ago. God told me that if I didn’t treat him exactly the way He told me to that I would not get the kind of husband that I needed or wanted. I did just what God told me to do and went against what other christians and a close relative told me I should do. Needless to say the man is no longer in my life and I’ve finally realized after all this time that he was not the kind of man that I needed or wanted. In your message from True Women 2008 you repeated some of my words regarding my relationship with this man verbatim. I was shocked and pleasantly surprised to have confirmation that I did the right thing in regard to this man.
Thank you more than you can know.
Dee
I admire and read C.S. Lewis. After seeing the use of his quote twice now by you, Mary,(here and on the cbmw website) I have been wondering and possibly disagreeing with Lewis. I thought that our position in Christ in relation to God, The Father, was one of child to parent rather than feminine to masculine.
Mary-
I love your Wild or Wise message. It is so needful for today. I cringe at the way most young Christian women dress, and I speak up to them as often as I can. I am so grateful for the grace of God in my own life. I know that it is possible for Him to turn a wild woman into a wise woman. Praise the LORD for His AMAZING GRACE!
Hello Mary,
It was a pleasure to meet you at the Women’s Forum at LifeWay. I just wanted to stop by to thank you for the session that you taught on feminism. Praise the Lord for your accurate and thorough picture of the state of womanhood. I pray that thousands of women across the nation tuned in through the live webcast. I plan to contact LifeWay to see if there’s a way to see it again.
I look forward to keeping up with and praying for this vital.
Until we meet again, may His peace be with you.
Rhonda!
wife of a SWBTS student
Mary I was in the classes Prayer 101, Watchman On The Wall, The Lost Art of Biblical Meditation, Fasting and In Radical Pursuit of Holiness. Wow God has been really speaking to me in all these areas and after I signed up for these classes, our church has been forcusing on all these areas. We have a monthly prayer vigil at our church and focus alot on prayer and fasting. I will have alot to share with them.
Thank you so much for the insight you have given. God has given you wonderful gifts (as he does all of us if we listen and seek him) to use for his glory.
I also have been trying to find the hand outs for the Prayer 101 class. Could you send me the link for this. Thank you again and God Bless
Linda Regnier
Sorry, there were no handouts for the Prayer 101 class – just for the class on fasting.
Mary,
After seeing/hearing you at Breakforth, and exploring your website, it feels like a refreshing rain has fallen on my soul. Thank you for your practical, Biblically-based, down-to-earth teaching. As a pastor’s wife in an isolated community, that can be hard to come by, so I appreciate your ministry. Thank you!
I came to this sight looking for ideas for our ten year wedding anniversary. Actually Googling “romance her heart” is what got me here.
This is a great sight, one I hope my wife will like.
Speaking of which my wife is fully aware of the backbone subject of this sight. That women are more valuable than a piece of meat and more beautiful than just mere looks alone. She knows God is trying to get to her heart, ot win her… I don’t know if she knows that her husband is trying too though.
Here is my reoccurring issue around our anniversary. For one, being broke (she’d call it poor) never helps. For two, her husband worketh not in the ways of romance. Well… not naturally. I’ve had a few awesome ideas that made her day but I feel like I’ll never be able to romance her in the way she deserves or desires. Quite honestly, I am setting myself up for failure.
Anyway, long story short… where is the tab for “men gone wise” or “husband’s of girls gone wise”? that has links to articles from frustrated husbands trying to romance their biblically awakened women? That says how, now that they are aware that their hearts crave this desire for beauty and romance, to be the men God called us to be and how to help them realize how special they are to God?
I’m not critiquing this sight… I’m just looking for the easy answer that doesn’t exist.
Thanks!
We have ordered 35 copies. Loved what you shared on your web page. Spot on for what young women need today……and their mothers. Thank-you.
Dear Mary:
Thanks so much for your ministry. I appreciate your work, and am looking forward to reading “Girls Gone Wise” with my daughters. We were in Chicago in 08, and your talk on “Girls Gone Wise” was thought-provoking and so helpful.
I wanted to let you know about a book I am currently reading that I thought you or one of your staff might find interesting in your research. It is titled “Old World Daughter, New World Mother” by Maria Laurino. It is not an evangelical book; it deals with issues of feminisim, family, and work from the perpesctive of a second generation Italian-American woman, comparing what is valued in her traditional culture versus what her feminist training emphasized. Just FYI. (Though I imagine your book list is already quite long! I was thinking maybe an RA/TA could read it and write a synopsis, if its helpful?!)
Praying for your continued successful ministry. Alicia
Mary, I have used Conversation Peace and Vertically Inclined as Bible Studies for our Ladies Sunday School class. The ladies got so much out of each of the studies and we really enjoyed your videos. I am determined to visit the beautiful gardens in Vertically Inclined.
I wanted to let you and your team know about an awesome bible study website that I use to prepare for Sunday School each week. The website is wordbloom.com. It makes studying the Bible fun! Check it out!
I have always strongly disliked people playing off the phrase
“Girls gone wild” because it just refers to Spring break when
girls would throw off all restraint in a party atmosphere! So…
I also think it’s crazy to use change that phrase for your book
tilte. I disliked the title the 1st time I heard it. How stupid!!!
You are correct that the term Girls Gone Wild started off as the moniker for college girls baring themselves on video, but now it has turned into a catch phrase for a cultural phenomenon, and I believe, a marker of a prevailing mindset/worldview. It is that “Wild” mindset that I am challenging women to counter with God’s wisdom.
I have tried for two days to check out your information on feminism. I had an interesting revelation about femininity,and I wanted to see what your perspective was. I’m looking for godly counsel because I see a depravation of femininity among the women at my church. Just wanted to let you know that you may have a problem with that particular link. Thank you.
I’m not sure which link you mean.
I just herd that 31 Woman is doing a Twilight-themed Bible Study. I thought you might be interested after readiing you’re article on abstenence.http://31woman.org/#/our-current-study/twilight-the-morning-star
Hi Mary,
I just wanted to let you know that I am very much enjoying Girls Gone Wise after receiving it as a gift, and was very much startled to read my own story in Point of Contrast #11, with Amanda and Pastor Mike. Unfortunately for me it’s way too late to turn back as I am very deeply and hopelessly in love with my pastor and have been for two years now. He is a wonderful man and trying his best to do the right thing, as I myself am, but our marriages are both abusive and nothing but in name only, and neither of us have a way out. We have never spoken of my feelings for him even though he is definitely aware of them, and even though he has never told me he returns my feelings I have no doubt of that either. We share secrets about our marriages that no one else knows, and there are long, lingering looks, lingering touches of the hand, certain pointed comments that he will make directed toward me, and the one wonderful hug I shared with him during the Holidays. I live in sheer emotional and spiritual hell every single moment of every day because of these feelings, and would never wish such a thing on the worst of my enemies. I want nothing more than to grab my pastor and run as far away from our miserable lives as we can possibly get, and to spend the rest of my life loving him, caring for him, and giving him all the happiness and joy he deserves. But that can never be…PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE warn every woman out there to guard her heart, because this is no joke and leads to nothing but hellish heartache from which there is no escape.
Michelle – I believe there is indeed an “escape” – trusting God and doing things His way. It may be painful in the short run, but in the long run, you will experience the joy and freedom of having made the right choices. My suggestion is that you break off all contact with the pastor and find a new church. I said a prayer for you just now, to have the strength, courage, and conviction to get out of your sticky situation.
I am in a similiar situation but leaving the church isn’t possible do to my position within the congregation and arousing my husband’s suspicions on why I would want to resign and go to a new church.
Michelle–perhaps you need to be honest with your husband.
Would be great to see a line of “Girls Gone Wise” t-shirts!
I was actually thinking that…
I would put the words on the back, not the front, I have teen boys who have said to me “Mom, why do girl wear shirts with words on the front of them? They make you look right at their boobs?” IN a way …they do have a point.
Mary, I want to call your attention to a typo on p. 72. The next to the last sentence in the first paragragh reads, “A Girl-Gone-Wise is restless and self-indulgent.” I believe it should read “Girl-Gone-Wild”.
Thanks. It’s already on our radar to fix at next reprint.
My housemate and a friend are working on this study which is so helpful and timely. I have a jail ministry with women on a weekly basis and I want to share this with the women there. I can take my laptop in but I do not have access to the internet while there. Will the video blog sessions be available any time soon to get on a DVD which I would be able to use with the ladies. I try to followup the women when they leave the jail and are so vulnerable to falling back into the same lifestyle. One of my “girls” is currently doing the study and I plan to share it with another one, Sallie, with whom I have almost daily contact. Sallie has come so far but needs more grounding in the Word and has internet access; I plan to give her the book for her birthday July 10. Thank you so much for writing the book and making the book video blog available.
Donna, you should be able to download the videos from YouTube. Just google “download youtube videos” or ask around to find a friend who knows how to download and convert them.
Re: Taking your husband’s name – after my first husband committed suicide I vowed to NEVER marry again. I legally changed my and my son’s surname to my maiden name. Then God blessed us with a new husband and father, but due to his military career, it was recommended we not change our name to his. I agree though with your comments – once our son is of legal age (18 in Alberta, Canada) I will most likely take on my husband’s last name. God Bless.
Mary –
Our ladies Bible study finished Knowing God by name about a month ago. It was an inspiring walk through the word.
This morning I picked up the book for my study time and discovered I’d missed Week 1 – Day 5 – Adonai Yahwah.
I was so moved by the bullet points (supported with scripture) on page 29
Thank you for your teaching Mary and “I (too) can anchor myself to HIS greatness – His sovereignty is my surety.”
God bless – Debra from Tennessee
Mary,
Hello! My name is Jessica and I just finished reading your book! I loved it and it has helped me open my eyes to a brand new life in which I want to live! The only question I have is how do I get there from here? I am only 21 and I have a 6 year old son. I just recently started going back to church and I know I should talk to my pastor about this but I would rather talk to you! I have never really accepted Jesus into my life, never personally asked him to help me. When I do ask him what happens then? Please Help! Thanks!
Dear Jessica,
When you pray, confess the sin and mistakes you’ve made, and tell Jesus that you accept Him into your life, and that you’ll do your best to follow Him –what happens next is that He will forgive you, send His Holy Spirit to live in your heart, and turn you into a new creation. And what happens next after that is that you start the adventure of a life that’s walking Christ’s way, instead of your own. I would love to talk to you and pray with you for a couple of minutes. If you’d like me to do that, please send an email to office@marykassian.com and tell me where and when to phone you.
Dear Jessica,
PRAISE THE LORD!!!! Welcome to the family of Christ! You will be getting LOTS of advice from a lot of people about how to live this new life. ALWAYS compare the advice you receive with God’s word. If you are not sure where to look to check out something, ask Mary or seek out an older woman whose life is consistent with the Bible and ask here.
Also, remember two Scriptures no matter what thoughts come in the next few days; I John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Jessica, when you confess your sins, you ARE forgiven by God. And, 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” You ARE forgiven and new in Christ. All the old things in your life are passed away in the eyes of God. They no longer define who you are. You are a new creature in Jesus.
I will be praying for you as you begin your new life; that God will reassure you of who you are and teach you Who He is. Welcome, sis!
Miyoshi
Thank you so much Miyoshi! I am so grateful that God has put wonderful people in this world like you that can help lost souls like me! My email is jbarfield18@yahoo.com if you would like to contact me! I would love to hear from you! Thanks again and I am honered to be your sister in Christ!
Mary, this book has been such a blessing to me! I look forward to my mornings on the porch with a cup of coffee, my bible, journal, and the Girls Gone Wise book. I’m just halfway through, because I keep going back and rereading certain parts. It is so important to follow God’s standards, and to live by his outline. I’m an 18 year old second year college student, and your book, to me, is a very helpful tool in my daily life. You provide a very clear description on how a woman of faith should act. I would love to give a copy of this book to every woman I know! This is a book that I will give my future daughters to read! Thanks for being such a blessing!
Mary,
My Sunday School class just finished the Knowing God by Name study and all I can say is “WOW!” It was an amazing 7 weeks! Thank you for reminding me how awesome our God truly is! I enjoyed every week, but the names of Sufficiency were the most meaningful to me in this season of my life, particularly The Lord My Portion. Thank you SOOO much for this wonderful study! I hated for it to end!
Here’s the link to the Wordle I created representing each of the names.
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2217434/Names_of_God
God Bless!
Caron Ervin
I was wondering if you have any blogs on dating pros and cons. I personally oppose dating and see no need for it, and I am curious about the opinions of others on the matter. Blessings~
I would love to recommend the book, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” by Joshua Harris. A great Biblical response and approach to dating (courting being the Biblical approach). I read this in college and it really resounded with me. I recommend to to the young girls I teach. Maybe Mrs. Kassian can recommend others.
Mary my e-mail is bbnatta1@sbcglobal.net
I give that to you because I’m not twitter and face-book savy. and I’m writing to confirm that God works all things for the good. I listen to Moody. I heard the program which aired “Girls Gone Wise”. One day and it touched a spiritual cord for our girls and women. The very next day, I got a call advising that I had been chosen to be our womens day speaker. I said no, you must be mistaken. Please see if there is someone else. Something about the content, spoke to my heart, I travelled north to pick up my copy, my husband drove me.
I’m writing you because I want to make sure I have your permission to share some of the comments in the book. I know it is biblically based, but you have added the everyday experiences and how it plays out in 2010 and back to EVE. I don’t know how! but with your permission, God will direct the presentation, I will do the homework. But I credit the Lord and yourself and make known your resources.
Appreciate you and await response from your team. Thank God for the proverbial contrasts!
Hi Mary,
I have been studying, and leading a study with your book for the past few months. I cam across this article today of a girl sharing her story on the Boundless (focus on the family) website. Thought you would like to read it. A tremendous story with many connections to the girl gone wise and all that path brings. Just wanted to share it with you. Thanks for all you do.
-julie
http://www.boundless.org/2005/answers/a0002324.cfm