Marisa Puckett 🇺🇸

Apple pie lover, believer in God, book addict, ice cream expert, mom to Garrett, pretty much just all around awesomeness.

[☆•*☆҉¨*•Be Blessed*¨*•☆ @ElRoiShalom]

@drewlind_ Thank you for the reminder that God is always good.

[Ruslan @RuslanKD]

I forgive him because that’s what Christ did and that’s what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is not hate, the answer we know from the gospel is love… love for our enemies. And love for those who persecute us. - Erika Kirk

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

That thing you're trusting God with? Take it one day at a time.

We can't let fears about tomorrow steal our joy for today.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

Facts aren’t the only things we need to pay attention to when assessing whether it is safe to trust another person. Feelings are also crucial.

We don’t just need to be told we’re safe; we need to believe it for ourselves.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

We have hope because we have a Savior. A Savior for our every hurt. Our every flaw. Our every need.

Between where we are and where we hope to be, our Savior steps right in and declares I AM the way, the truth and the life. May this be illuminated to you and yours this Christmas.

[Andy Stanley @AndyStanley]

“To the charge that they were turning the world upside down, Jesus’ followers would reply that they were in fact turning it the right way up.”
N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Acts

[Josiah Watson @josiahwatson99]

You must understand why it is that the Word of the Father, so great and so high, has been made manifest in bodily form. He has not assumed a body as proper to His own nature - far from it, for as the Word, He is without body. He has been manifested in a human body for this reason only, out of the love and goodness of His Father, for the salvation of us men.
"On the Incarnation" by Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (12)

[Dr. John Delony @johndelony]

Never lie to your kids.

Tell them the truth.
Even when it's hard.

If you lie to your kids, they will feel the disconnection, absorb the dishonesty, and assume it's their own fault.
And then, they will spend their entire lifetime trying to fix it.

Tell your kids the truth about sex, politics, religion, trauma, tragedy, and so on.

Never lie to your kids.

Delony

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

Nothing tests our trust like fear, but fear fades when we trust the strength and sovereignty of our God.

Fear doesn’t have to pull us away from trusting God, sweet friends. We can actually let it be the catalyst to us choosing to trust God more than ever.

[Le'Veon Bell @LeVeonBell]

I don’t want my daughter to have to compete or share a locker room with men ..

[Jillian Anderson @Jillie_Alexis]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but hating Trump doesn’t make Kamala qualified to be president.

[Dr. John Delony @johndelony]

Your kids won't like being around you if you're not likable.

Here are some things that might make you hard to like:

- Always lecturing
- Turning every conversation into a teaching moment
- Always on your phone
- Always angry or enraged
- Always pointing out flaws
- Never saying you're sorry
- Being ugly to their other parent
- Hiding grief
- Not dealing with your anxiety
- Living your life through them
- Lying
- Use of force instead of relationship

Delony

[Louie Giglio @louiegiglio]

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[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

God’s ways are sometimes opposite of what we want and expect. But we can absolutely trust that His ways are best.

Let’s remember to consider what God’s purposes are and align our expectations and desires around His.

[Dr. Henry Cloud @DrHenryCloud]

True freedom comes when we surrender control to God and focus on the one thing we can control – ourselves. This is the essence of the Serenity Prayer: accepting what we cannot change, changing what we can (ourselves), and seeking wisdom to know the difference.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

Fear only has as much access to our hearts as we allow. And today's a good day to tell fear, “Stand down in the name of Jesus. You are messing with the wrong girl this time!”

We don't have to dance with the devil’s lies.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

We can see messes – piles of shoes, dirty dishes, laundry – and frown. Or we can see them as rich evidence of life and smile. Our choice.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

What if we look at the word "impossible" a little differently?

It changes completely if we just stick a little apostrophe between the first two letters. Then it becomes “I’m-Possible.” God is the Great I AM. He is our possibility in the midst of all that feels impossible.

[Dr. John Delony @johndelony]

Children only have access to the things the adults in their lives give them.

If children struggle with obsessions over screens, junk food, television, etc., it's not because there is something wrong with them.

It's our fault.
We are the parents.

We must stop blaming the children.

Grown-ups: Take back your homes. Tale back your children's emotional, physical, and psychological health. Protect your children's hearts, minds, and bodies.

If we want our children to be well, the change begins with us.

Delony

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

May we see prayer not as a last resort but as one of the very things God’s most courageous followers turn to first.

“In the day when I cried out, You answered me,
And made me bold with strength in my soul.” Psalm 138:3