by Janel Breitenstein | Nov 22, 2024 | children, Family, free download, Gratitude, helping others, Holidays; Occasions, Home and Hospitality, Ideas, kids, Printables and Freebies, shareables
Confession: My heavenly intentions for Thanksgiving are often clobbered in a back alley by my oh-so-real life. I would love to be preparing our hearts all month for gratitude, but I find myself picking up someone else’s rank gym socks. I would love to be...
by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 17, 2024 | Family
Author’s note: This week, in my first piece for Christianity Today, I’m exploring whether our evangelism methods are actually ethical–and changing fast enough to keep pace with culture. Here, some additional thoughts on why Christians and...
by Janel Breitenstein | Oct 7, 2024 | Family
Hey, all. Can I just say I feel exquisitely uncomfortable with posts like this? But I do realize some of you don’t even know what my (non-written) voice sounds like, and might be interested to pull up a chair in my latest, lively podcast discussion with Focus on...
by Janel Breitenstein | Sep 21, 2024 | Family
I’m the one who ostensibly believes “Uncomfortable Conversations are Worth Having,” right? But when it comes to actually hitting “publish” on all those burning relationship questions, sometimes I feel squeamish. It helps that...
by Janel Breitenstein | Sep 6, 2024 | Africa, compassion, God's will, helping others, Home and Hospitality, poverty, practical
It was an opportunity. She needed a place to stay. We had room. What we didn’t have a lot of: margin. Energy. Time. Cash. And as I heard more details about her story, something niggled at me. Our family’s weaknesses seemed like a poor fit for her needs. When I...
