a long walk through fall loveliness this weekend… soul good.
Wow! Winners of the Wildlife Photographers of the Year:
Complete Awe of the Beautiful World Our God Created
5 Gentle Movements of Grace to Reduce Stress of Anxious Days
Live into the spacious, non-anxious presence of God this weekend & these 5 gentle movements of grace to reduce stress for any of our anxious days…
lovely fall weekend to make this delicious drink!
SOUL LEARNING for you this week:
Want to Give Your Neighbors Hope for Christmas? Start Here
You don’t know what keeps your neighbors awake at night. But you can share the hope that holds you through yours:
The Church is a Beautiful and Troubling Thing
Why, in spite of it all, I remain committed to the church
Welcome Home
Isn’t Sanctification Just Spiritual Formation?
The Neuroscience of Decluttering
How Do You Keep Hoping When God Hasn’t Answered?
Here’s the newest conversation in our Bell Tower Stories:
I sit down with Jess Connolly discuss Jess’ new book, You Can’t Be Brave Until You’re Scared. Come join us in BellTower Stories, up in the 1896 bell tower our little Village Table church, as “the bells are the voice of the church, with tones that touch and search.” (Longfellow)
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Supercharge Your Awe This Week:
A TIDAL RACE: GOD’S IMMENSITY SQUEEZING INTO YOUR DAYS
1 4’s Company, 5’s A Crowd- from the 2026 NLPA Awards
what a moment
Good Reads This Fall? Best Book Recommendations
I’ve collected some of my best book picks for you:
Books from the stack here this week:
You Can’t Be Brave Until You’re Scared is an invitation into an honest reckoning with fear and a better understanding of how it works in your mind, body, and soul—and why biblical fear of the Lord is not a threat but a rescue.
If you’re ready to follow God’s call to be strong and courageous not because you’re not scared but in spite of it, let Jess’s powerful teaching lead you to start living as the brave woman God already sees.
Pick up the Bible Study Guide too and take on fear with a group of women!
In her latest devotional, Heaven For Today, Jennifer offers 60 devotions to help you engage heaven now, offering you little slices of eternity and comfort right where you sit.
Order your copy today and as you sojourn with her through this daily devotional book, expect your eyes to be opened to the place of heaven, your faith to be opened to the promise of heaven, and your heart to be opened to the person of heaven – Jesus.
When hope feels fragile and the waiting has gone on longer than you ever imagined, what if you don’t need to force your way back to certainty, but simply discover that God is still with you, even in the dark?
In her new book Midnight Hallelujah, Ebie offers a tender invitation to bring your unanswered prayers, disappointment, and hope fatigue honestly before God—and discover the kind of hope that will hold you through the night.
Faith’s story is one of 26 in the newly released book, Honest to God: Daring to Trust When You Don’t Understand, by Toni Nieuwhof and friends.
Even though we know God promises to never leave us, when life falls apart it’s normal to wonder whether you’ve been forgotten. How do you dare to trust when life hurts and it feels like God is a million miles away?
something for you in the kitchen this week:
Cozy Fall Dinners in Our Old Farmhouse
to accompany the cozy soups this fall: the BEST bread recipe!
looks so good!
where to start?!
Creativity Inspo for you this week:
Iron scrubber painting technique
I Bought An Abandoned Church For $45K
In Praise of Analog Hours
love this
this is beautiful!
What we’re listening to on the farm this week:
What a way to start your weekend! | Shane & Shane | Worship Set
Mighty To Save
To Challenge You This Week:
We Can Only Imagine. But Do We?
From Dust to Dust: A Convo with Jen Wilkin on the Theology of Aging
Heaven: Do We Know Enough to Want to Go? (with Randy Alcorn)
Good Stuff to make you smile:
The Adventures Of Larry The Lamb
how fun is this?
this is wild…
Could I Meet You?
Do you too need to know there is something ahead of you – that is so good that it changes everything about today?
And you and I, together, we could unpack it together:
• What does the future hold?
• How will all things ever be made all right? How in the world is “everything sad going to come untrue”?
• How does today really matter?
If you deeply feel that the world is not as it should be…
THEN THIS NIGHT IS FOR YOU, & I WANT TO MEET YOU HERE! Experience a one-night event full of encouragement, laughter, and real life-changing hope!
Florida Friends! Next Weekend in Boca Raton!
We have the Best Bundle of Christmas Books to Guide You & Yours Through this Season, Centered on Christ
We haven’t seen a sale like this! One Thousand Gifts is on sale for 70% off! Only $8 — makes a perfect gift to give!
Want to Start Counting Your Gifts? Gifts and Gratitudes: A Year of One Thousand Gifts is on sale right now!
The best thing to put in your pocket!
Come for a Farm wander this weekend & some slow living
That’s all for this weekend, friends.
Go slow. Be God-struck. Grant grace. Live Truth.
Give Thanks. Love well. Re – joy, re- joy, ‘re- joys’ again
Share Whatever Is Good.
No matter what this weekend holds for you, may it remind you of the steady love of our Abba Father — the One who keeps tending hearts with such gentleness and care.
