God didn’t create women to be doormats, weak-willed airheads and pathetic losers. God created women to be iron-sharpening friends, creative life-givers and inspiring influencers. He created us to bring Him glory with our strengths. But, if we’re not careful, we can be destructively fierce instead of life-giving and inspiring — especially in our closest relationships. […]
5 Questions to Help Adults Conquer Their Fear of the Future
A college senior sat in my office, ghost pale and trembling. She looked at me through eyes swollen from lack of sleep and crying and asked, “What’s going to happen to me? I’m just so afraid of the future. What am I supposed to do?” In my roles as a college instructor and as campus […]
What to Do When They Ask You to Speak
Hey Wendy, you lead our women’s ministry. You lead Bible study. You are a perfect fit! “For what?,” I asked. We need a speaker to share a short message for our next women’s event. Can you put together a quick twenty-minute message for next Thursday?” Gulp! Yes, I can lead. I can pray. I can […]
How to Be a Fierce Leader Without Damaging Relationships
He coldly articulated what I’d suspected, but now knew to be true, “I don’t love you.” Outwardly, a long silence followed my husband’s crisply delivered words. What was there to say or add to his announcement? We’d only been married five years. I looked at the beautiful result of a wildly romantic night in Wichita […]
Do You Have Confidence to Obey God’s Call?
What traits do you look for in a leader? For many, leadership means having a certain strength, gravitas or personal charisma — a leader energizes a room by just walking into it. But how often do we think of humility as essential to leadership? In its most basic definition, humility is recognizing who we are […]
5 Steps to Writing an Effective Message [Video]
Learn from Wendy Blight the steps you should follow to prepare a message that effectively equips the audience to apply Scripture to their own lives. In this video, you will learn: How to provide a message that always gives the audience an immediate opportunity to take action for themselves. Why speaking on a topic that you […]
3 Creative Ideas to Host Impactful Events
Event planning can be fun for some and cumbersome for others. Either way, it takes a whole lot of work. There’s a reason people hire event planners who do this sort of thing for a living, right? Have you ever thought about looking at planning an event as an opportunity? Sometimes that shift in perspective […]
Worship: Creating Space to Remember the Gospel
I couldn’t put it down. I pretty much went without sleep for two straight days because I just couldn’t put it down. With every page turn, the words pulled me in deeper. When I did sleep, I dreamt about the characters, concerned for their safety, wondering how their dire situations would play out. And when […]
How You Can Make a Difference Wherever You Are
Do you ever feel like you can’t make a difference from where you are? That a plane ride of at least 12+ hours to some poverty stricken country is necessary to truly make an impact in the world? If you live in a booming metropolis or in a one red-light kind of town, God has […]
5 Steps to Begin Your Mentoring Ministry
When did the women of your church start drifting so far apart? How will you reconnect the mature women with the younger women? No matter the size or denomination of your church, today’s Christian women across the generations can see this problem and talk about it, but no one knows what to do to change […]
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