Merry Single-mas
It’s that time of year again: Christmas trees, treats, stockings, and interrogations from well-meaning relatives on your relationship status. Oh joy… How’s a single gal to survive?!
Category: Life Stages
Will the Real Biblical Woman Please Stand Up?
Most descriptions of Biblical womanhood sound so very… married. Short of finding a husband, how does a single woman live a Biblical life?
Becoming God’s True Woman featured on LYWB today
Erin Davis recently asked me some questions about my new devotional for young teens, Becoming God’s True Woman while I still have a Curfew.
Boy Crazy Girl
How did Paula go from being a needy, boy-crazed, romance-novel junkie to someone who’s focused on the right things? Find out on this Girls Gone Wise video.
Calling All Teens
Are you between the ages of 13 and 19? If so, I could use your help! (Moms and mentors, I could use your help too. You could pass this request on to your daughter or a young friend.) I’m working on writing a devotional for teen girls with my friend, Susan Hunt. It will be [...]
Honor & Obey: The Dividing Line for Adult Children
As a growing child, it is important to obey your parents. But when we get older and move from childhood to womanhood, do we still have to obey? As a grown woman, at what point can I stop listening to my parents? Is there a difference between honoring & obeying?
You Can’t Marry Mr. Darcy!
Mr. Darcy. He is every woman’s ideal man, and every girl swoons at the mention of his name. But as perfect as Mr. Darcy is, he has one undeniable flaw: You can’t MARRY Mr. Darcy.
Waiting for Life to Start
Just like getting a pink bunny suit for Christmas, the gift of singleness can leave you feeling disappointed, awkward, and like everyone’s staring at you! But you don’t have to keep waiting for life to start!
Protecting Girls from Boy-Craziness
There is an inarguable connection between the media diet of tweens and early sexual activity in teens. Doesn’t it make sense that anything we feed our daughters that says “be boy-crazy” would just put her in the cultural current of early sexualization?
Calling All the Single Ladies!
Status: Single. That’s what my Facebook profile says. Like a large banner stamped across my homepage: I. AM. SINGLE. I can’t help but entertain the idea that something is missing from my life.
Teaching Young Women to be True Women
I left the Ft. Worth conference thinking about something Dannah Gresh said during our panel discussion. She encouraged us to begin teaching our girls at a young age—and not to wait to guide them in forming godly values.
We Need Each Other
Last Sunday, I had coffee with a friend who wanted to talk about her relationship with her boyfriend. Last night, a friend stopped in on a surprise business trip to this area. This morning, a friend of my son’s stopped in to say goodbye to me before leaving on an extended trip. Tonight, I’ll be [...]
