by houseofdesigns | Jun 23, 2022 | Outreach, Prayer, Uncategorized, Women's Connection
Prayer Connection July 2022 Freedom through the Fight Imagine it: After landing at Normandy Beach in France, a company of soldiers stops to help two landowners settle a dispute. Instead of taking the land back from the enemy, they are taken prisoner. Suddenly they are... by houseofdesigns | May 25, 2022 | Outreach, Prayer, Uncategorized, Women's Connection
Prayer Connection June 2022 Language changes over time. Pick up any dictionary from the 1800s, and you will quickly find that the way we use words today is quite different from that time. So is the case with the word “passion.” The Latin root is passivus, capable of... by houseofdesigns | Apr 29, 2022 | Outreach, Prayer, Women's Connection
Introduction to 7 weeks of Carrying Hope Carrying Hope Across Generations Sometimes we give up on dreaming. Not any particular dream but dreaming altogether. Our souls’ hope-spaces have emptied for so long that we’d rather stay empty. Over the next several weeks,... by houseofdesigns | Mar 29, 2022 | Outreach, Prayer, Women's Connection
Finding the Right Words “The thing we want to learn about a stranger is fragile. If we tread carelessly, it will crumble under our feet… The right way to talk to strangers is with caution and humility,” writes Malcolm Gladwell in Talking to Strangers. Has this ever... by houseofdesigns | Feb 28, 2022 | Outreach, Prayer, Women's Connection
Finding Hope for Your Dash Have you ever heard the phrase, “Life is about the dash”? It refers to that small, horizontal mark on a gravestone between the day we are born and the day we die. Squeezed between those two dates the dash punctuates a middle. A middle that... by houseofdesigns | Jan 28, 2022 | Outreach, Prayer, Women's Connection
Devotion: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Hope Martha has become one of my favorite Bible characters over the years, which may sound strange, but she is so relatable and so ordinary. As I’ve learned more about her through the years, I’ve realized she is an ordinary...