Amanda

Amanda is a women’s ministry leader and Bible study teacher. She is on fire for the Lord and loves ministering to teens and women. She thrives on encouraging women to fall in love with Jesus and is passionate about them discovering their God-given gifts and calling. She especially has a heart for women in leadership and equipping them to serve in God's Kingdom. Amanda lives in North Carolina with her husband and two little girls. Visit Amanda at her blog, Give Her Grace: http://givehergrace.blogspot.com

Mentoring Monday: Like Aaron

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We stand in a beautiful sanctuary.  It’s a place I could stay for hours.  From the moment I walk through the doors, I feel His presence.  My soul sighs in peace.  A peace I’ve not known in years. We stand in a circle linked together, heads bowed. My hands wrap around my friend’s arm.  Someone holds my right arm and another’s hand rests on my left shoulder. One by one the ladies in the circle pray over my friend and me.  I am here simply as a friend.  I have no role or responsibility, but they’re praying over me still. …

The April Fools Day That Wasn’t

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Today, I could unleash some really elaborate scheme to try to make you believe something wildly untrue, misleading, and perhaps even disappointing. I could give you some great piece of news that might have your eyes bugging out and your mind blown away. Or I could spin a tall tale of something so incredibly sad that you’d be relieved when you found out it was false. I could do that. And then I’d spring out at you like a Jack-in-the-Box with a giant “April Fools!” You might be mad. You might laugh. You might shake your head at my silliness. For a…

Changing Lanes

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One evening not too long ago, I was driving home and went to make the left turn into my neighborhood.  Suddenly I noticed the string of orange traffic cones and signs reading “No Entering” blocking off my turn lane. To complete the picture, workers in reflective vests were in the process of tearing up the road. In a split second I had to merge lanes again to avoid running into the “No Entering” sign. My route had to change on the spot, and I hadn’t been prepared for it.  I had had no warning at all, just a sign and…

Learning to Walk in Grace

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In May 2009 my life changed. Yes, I just got married, but that seemed like a small change compared to what God was teaching me about grace. I returned from our honeymoon in Costa Rica very sick. Sicker than I had ever been before. At first we thought I had picked up a bug, but it quickly became evident that something more serious, something more permanent, had made itself at home in my body. My husband and I both had a sexual past. While we both had chosen renewed abstinence many years before meeting each other, our past entered our…

For Days When The Rain Isn’t Beautiful

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It was a Wednesday night, and the rain fell like the world was in the middle of a Noah’s Ark reenactment. Streaks of water crossed my windshield like zebra stripes. Those were the only colors I could see. Black and white. A night as dark as pitch, a single white line on the edge of the road, and my white lights shining into the void. I’d never driven through a storm this bad, and as the rain poured harder and harder, I couldn’t help but worry.   I had cranked up the radio in an attempt to hear the song…

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