Tricia Goyer
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For Help With Your Angry Child, Listen to God’s Still, Small Whisper
The pressure on my chest made sleep difficult. I dreaded waking up the next day, only to deal with my child’s anger again. I’m the worst mom ever. How could I feel this way? I grew up in a calm home within a gentle family. There wasn’t a lot of drama. As a child, I …
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Priceless Advice for Any New Homeschooling Mom
When I first started homeschooling, I had an idea of what it would look like. I ordered a huge box curriculum, bought old school desks and prepared to do school at home. I’ve learned many things along the way. Here are things I wish I’d known 25 years ago: Don’t compare! Don’t compare yourself with …
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What You Need to Know About Your Teen’s Escalating Emotions
I have three children past their teen years, and I currently have four teens in our home. Let’s pause right now as I ask for prayer. Do you also have a teen—an emotion-filled creature—in your house? I’ll pause and say a prayer for you too. One thing I’ve learned with these teens is that their …
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Supernatural Secrets to Finding the Life-Balance You Desperately Seek
A few Sundays ago, I had a dilemma. We were a few minutes late for church, and we took a seat behind the children. In our church, pre-K through sixth-grade kids sit in the sanctuary during worship and then are released after worship to go to their children’s program. We were barely seated when one …
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You Can Be the Surprising Answer to the Race Problem
Do you think we don’t have a race problem in the U.S.? Maybe your thoughts would change if you talked to someone different than you. Or maybe you know there is a problem, but you don’t know what to do to help. There are many ways you can build friendships and connect with others across …
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One Ordinary Woman’s Secret to Extraordinary Spiritual Growth
I wrote this blog post from Austin. I was on a “whirlwind tour of Texas.” I spent three days at the Declare Conference and then traveled to Austin to be interviewed by Jamie Ivey for “The Happy Hour” podcast (you can listen to that episode here—”The Happy Hour” is one of my favorite podcasts!) And finally, I was …
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3 Spirit-Focused Tips to Get Through Your Rough Day
Rough day? Oh man, I understand. Wouldn’t it be nice if life was easier? The truth is that rough days happen. Here is my advice for getting through: 3 Tips for Getting Through: Prayer, Perspective, Purpose 1. Prayer. I don’t know where I’d be without prayer. Throughout the day I seek God. “Please, help me. Give me strength. …
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Adding Purpose to Your Frenzied Fall Schedule
While January 1 is truly the beginning of the new year, September and October always feels like a fresh start to me. By September, in the Goyer house, we’ve just started homeschool. I started a new prayer journal, and we’re settling in to a new (earlier) bedtime routine. Although summer is fun, by the end …
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4 Surprising Ways to Shorten Your To-Do List
I looked at my friend’s to-do list that she posted on Instagram. “No wonder I’m cracking!” she posted. “I need a clone.” I cringed as I looked at her list. It was long. I also cringed because I remember the feelings that huge of a to-do list brought on. The feeling that I was always behind. The …
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3 Healthy Ways to Respond When You Feel Like a Misfit
Years ago, John and I found ourselves trying out churches after a leadership change at a small country church we’d been attending for years. With a preschooler, a toddler and a baby on the way, I often spent more time out of service than in it. One church we were visiting was large, and they …
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7 Exciting Facts From Ephesians About Your Position in Christ
If every Christian truly understood their identity and position in Christ, Christianity would be a force to be reckoned with in the world. It would change the way we preach, the way we worship and the way we relate to one another as the collective body of Christ. Ephesians is a call for spiritual maturity. …
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5 Heart-Changing Prayers for Every Spirit-Led Parent
Being a parent is hard. It’s easy to get focus on the daily struggles and frustrations and forget that each day is an opportunity to teach, guide and grow my children into the unique people God created them to be. I often come up with goals for how to relate and react to me kids, …
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Equipping Your Teen to Love Jesus—All the Way Through Graduation
My kids did (mostly) awesome in college. They got good grades, made good friends and blossomed into godly adults. All my kids went to secular local and state colleges, yet their relationship with God grew. Looking back at their teen years, here are some things that prepared their hearts most. 1. Involved parents. John and I loved …
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11 Subtle Ways Parents Unwittingly Set Their Teens Up for Failure
1. Hide your past mistakes. Put on an act that you are perfect and your teenagers are the ones with all the problems. (After all, if your teens hear what you did in your past, they might want to follow.) 2. Don’t worry about where they are going and what they are doing. You didn’t …
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Mom, God Is Using These 2 Refining Tools to Change You
Are there things about being a mom that you’d like to change? Do you lose your temper? Do you struggle with putting down your phone and just focusing on your kids? Do you wish you can be more joyful, even in the small things? The bad news is that as moms, we often feel guilty …
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