Million Praying Moms Blog

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  What your teen girl wants more than anything is connection, to be known and valued. I remember wanting so badly to be connected with the girls in my school. Oh, they liked me well enough, but they had hid...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY    We are polling our audience of Christian moms each Friday to ask for their big questions and concerns about raising teenagers. Then, each Monday, Stacey and I are answering what we can on the Everyday...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY    Every Friday in April, to round out our ongoing conversations about prayer and motherhood through the teenage years, Stacey Thacker and I will be offering Hard Prayer Tips on the Everyday Prayers...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY    Sometimes, when life is hard and it feels like there's no hope, we need to hear stories of how God has moved in other people's lives. That's what we're hoping to do for you each Thursday on the Everyday...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Despite our best efforts, our boys will mess up. They'll say and do the wrong thing, make us look like bad moms, and hurt our feelings. At times they'll make us wonder if we did anything right at all, and...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  For teen girls, lies and untruths tend to stick with them. In order to get to the root of what they're believing, we need to loosen the thoughts and give them the possibility that what they're thinking may...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY    We are polling our audience of Christian moms each Friday to ask for their big questions and concerns about raising teenagers. Then, each Monday, Stacey and I are answering what we can on the Everyday Prayers Podcast. Today's...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Several years ago, while in the midst of a stressful season with one of my sons, I found myself struggling with anxiety. In response, I amped up my prayer life significantly. I prayed over this child from...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  God is faithful, you know we talked about in the other story God doesn't always heal and there's loss, and that's just the everyday part of this broken world that we live in. But their first response was...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I will love them harder than they fight me. Harder than they fight their father and harder than they might choose to fight God. Harder. And isn't that how God loves us? It's God's kindness that leads us to...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Teen girls are having a cultural moment. Clad in pink and flocking to movie theaters, they've embraced their inner Barbie and launched her dream house world to the top of the box-office mountain....

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I haven’t been a perfect mom. You know better than anyone just how many mistakes I’ve made. I don’t look back on my motherhood and pump my fists in victory over my amazing parenting. But I do raise my...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Hope is a person. For a long time, I thought hope was a feeling. I thought it was a theoretical idea I was reaching for. But if we're just looking for that feeling in and of itself, we're going to fall...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Stacey and I first started talking about hope for the weary mom over a decade ago. At the time, we needed the message as desperately as anyone else. Today, weariness looks a little different. We're not...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I stood at the kitchen sink, once again facing a mountain of life stacked every which way overflowing on the counter. I turned on the water and cupped my hands to catch the flow, but filled up quickly and...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  If you read my book Unraveled, you're familiar with the story of how God healed my heart after the miscarriage of our third baby. It's not like my miscarriage was uncommon. According to the American...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  I have lost the ability to sleep past 6:30. It's true that my addiction to coffee may have a slight connection to this, but I also blame my heritage. My grandma woke up around 5:30 every day so I feel like...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  The crowds followed Jesus closely as he healed their sick, made their lame walk, and made life and breath and being enter back into their dead. He had filled their stomachs with bread, met their needs,...