When Jesus is at the center, it changes everything. I love watching moms find their tribe with us. I love watching moms invest their gifts and finding their purpose with us. I love watching hearts continually be transformed by the gospel, as we bring it all back to Jesus, again and again, moms are astonished by how accepted they are without having to perform.
Read MoreJesus uses our small things
and turns them into big things
because it’s not about our abilities,
It’s all about Jesus creating out of nothing, something he’s been doing since the beginning.
God wants us to give him our everything,
even when it’s just a small lunch, 2 coins or a tiny seed. This is how others will be pointed to God all the more, when we stop thinking God is looking for super-humans to serve him and see that he’s always worked through broken people like you and me who were willing to give God what they’ve got and leave it in his hands with a surrendered heart.
Happy back to school to many of our friends! Speaking and praying God’s truth over our kiddos and making it part of our daily rhythms helps them to internalize God’s character and heart for them. Start with this blessing and pray it out loud over them in the morning and evening and before you know it, they’ll have it memorized. What are your favorite scriptures to speak and pray over your kids?
Read MoreGod is calling us to live on mission for Jesus wherever He’s placed us. The parks we frequent. Our favorite coffee shop. Whatever and whoever is already built into our day is our God-designed mission. Loving God and loving others isn’t supposed to be complicated, or something we need to sign-up for at the church desk.
And this lifestyle absolutely includes our kids in their full glory of chaos and unpredictability. When we love God and love others alongside our kids we are discipling them as we make disciples. Agape Moms helps empower moms to live on mission for Jesus in everyday, messy mom-life. Learn more on our website
Read MoreHas God been burdening your heart to reach other moms around you with the good news of Jesus? Do you crave an authentic environment where you can bring the mess of motherhood and grow with other moms in Jesus? Do you sometimes feel that serving God outside the home is too hard in this season of having young children? This is where Agape Moms comes in and connects our call to make disciples with everyday messy mom life!
Read More“My daughter was crawling by nine months. She was walking one month later and running by her first birthday.” “Mine too” another momma responded. I was sitting in a mall play area as a group of mothers talked about the timing of their kiddos big milestones. I smiled and nodded appropriately. My 18 month old daughter stood by me, holding both my hands. I wanted to share my story with these sweet mommas but something was holding me back. I didn’t want to tell them about my daughter’s struggles. Or mine. I didn’t want them to judge me. I didn’t want to tell them how I sometimes judged myself.
Read MoreMoms, let’s be grateful for the beautiful mess that is also called our lives, even as another meal is interrupted by a potty emergency, or you microwave that cup of coffee, just one more time. Being a mom is messy, but can you think of a more worthwhile calling than getting to daily live out the sacrificial love that Jesus so freely gives us? It’s an act of worship, pouring out our lives, again and again.
Read MoreWhen I don’t know what to say and I can’t understand why God is allowing or isn’t allowing things, it’s a knee jerk sort of response to turn it on myself for a minute. Do I, or do I not deserve this? Have I not done enough right things? Have I done too many wrong things? Do I deserve reward or punishment? Too many of us wonder this when tires blow out or things fail. Me. What could I have done? How do I measure up?
But speaking the gospel into the broken places of my life means turning the focus from me to Jesus. It’s asking myself,
Read MoreThis image from Propel Women today caught my eye. When the desire to prove, perform or perfect creeps up, I have to remember who I am in Christ. The identity change is a gift. I didn’t earn it, can’t maintain it, can’t lose it. Dwelling on what Christ did for me, what I never could have done myself, what I still can’t do for myself in my pursuit of spiritual growth- mediating on this huge gift of grace stirs up my affections for God much more than the pressure to perform does. You see, it’s all about identity modification, not behavior modification.
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