The Filter – “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” Season 2, Episode 6

I’m delighted to share the sixth and final episode of Season 2 of the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast.” Be encouraged as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams!  Today I’m sharing some of my favorite memories from my short-term missions trip to the Amazon Jungle in Brazil.

You can listen to this short and inspiring “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” episode below or on iTunesSpotifyGoogle Podcasts or Stitcher.

For even more encouragement, pick up a copy of By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s website.

If you’re being blessed by the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast,” please tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and leave a kind rating on your preferred platform. Thanks! Blessings!

Reflections on My Return Visit to Speak at Nyack College’s Chapel

What a joy and honor it was to be back with my friends at Nyack College last Thursday!  What a blessing it was to chat with students at the Meet the Author time at Eastman Library and to once again minister at Chapel!

There is such a sweet spirit among the students and faculty there. I’m so grateful that Nyack gives me such a warm welcome.

These are just some of the lovely people I got to meet while on campus.

God is doing a beautiful work in the lives of the students at Nyack.

I’m praying God’s continued blessings on Nyack as they continue to shine the light for Christ in NYC!

I’m already looking forward to my next visit as the Lord leads!

If you would like to invite me to come speak at your church, chapel, school, conference, retreat, library or outreach event, you can learn more here. Blessings!

Moving Beyond the Fog – “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” Season 2, Episode 5

I’m delighted to share the fifth episode of Season 2 of the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast.” Be encouraged as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! Today I’m sharing my devotional that won Our Daily Bread‘s Online Writing Contest for Readers a few years back.

You can listen to this short and inspiring “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” episode below or on iTunesSpotifyGoogle Podcasts or Stitcher.

For even more encouragement, pick up a copy of By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s website.

If you’re being blessed by the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast,” please tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and leave a kind rating on your preferred platform. Thanks! Blessings!

True Worship – “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” Season 2, Episode 4

I’m delighted to share the fourth episode of Season 2 of the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast.” Be encouraged as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! Today I’m sharing a favorite memory from my short-term missions trip to Ethiopia.

You can listen to this short and inspiring “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” episode right below or on iTunesSpotifyGoogle Podcasts or Stitcher.

For even more encouragement, pick up a copy of By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s website.

If you’re being blessed by the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast,” please tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and leave a kind rating on your preferred platform. Thanks! Blessings!

Viking Hunter – “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” Season 2, Episode 3

I’m delighted to share the third episode of Season 2 of the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast.” Be encouraged as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! Today I’m sharing one of my favorite memories from an evangelism outreach in NYC.

You can listen to this short and inspiring “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” episode right below or on iTunesSpotifyGoogle Podcasts or Stitcher.

For even more encouragement, pick up a copy of By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s website.

If you’re being blessed by the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast,” please tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and leave a kind rating on your preferred platform. Thanks! Blessings!

Sweet Surrender – “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” Season 2, Episode 2

I’m delighted to share the second episode of Season 2 of the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast.” Be encouraged as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! Today I’m sharing about surrendering to God’s plan for our lives.

You can listen to this short and inspiring “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” episode right below or on iTunesSpotifyGoogle Podcastsor Stitcher.

For even more encouragement, pick up a copy of By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s website.

If you’re being blessed by the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast,” please tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and leave a kind rating on your preferred platform. Thanks!

P.S. It’s my 6th Blogiversary!  I thought I’d run out of things to say after my first year of blogging… God has a sense of humor and God is Good! A special shout out to those of you who remember when I launched my blog! Blessings!

Daddy’s Girl – “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” Season 2, Episode 1

I’m delighted to share the first episode of Season 2 of the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast.” Be encouraged as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! Today I’m sharing about being a Daddy’s Girl when it comes to our Heavenly Father.

You can listen to this short and inspiring “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” episode right below or on iTunesSpotifyGoogle Podcastsor Stitcher.

For even more encouragement, pick up a copy of By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s website.

If you’re being blessed by the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast,” please tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and leave a kind rating on your preferred platform. Thanks! Blessings!

Living Your God-Given Dreams – “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” Episode 6

I’m delighted to share the sixth episode of the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast.” Be encouraged as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! Today we’re talking about living your God-given dreams!

You can listen to this short and inspiring “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” episode right below or on iTunesSpotifyGoogle Podcastsor Stitcher.

For even more encouragement, I invite you to pick up a copy of By Faith: Reflections on Walking With God Here and Abroad on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s website.

Can you believe this is the final episode of Season 1?

If you’re being blessed by the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast,” please tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and leave a kind rating on your preferred platform.

If you have a comment you’d like to share or a question you’d like me to consider answering on a future episode, please post it on Abounding Faith’s Facebook page. Blessings!

Happy New Year 2019 & My “One Word”

Happy New Year! I pray 2019 will be your best year yet!

How in the world is it 2019 and how is it that I’m still blogging? I was sure I’d run out of words in my first year of blogging, and now I’m starting my sixth year. God is Good and has a sense of humor.

I’ve been pondering and praying about my “One Word” for this year. I actually have several, but the one I’d like to share is … “Surprise!”

I believe that God is going to surprise me all throughout the year.  Why? Because so much of this year remains a mystery.

Instead of being anxious or nervous about what’s ahead, I’m choosing to stay at peace and open to God’s surprises. After all, God promises:

He has a good plan for us .”‘For I know the plans I have for you,'” declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'” (Jeremiah 29:11)

His ways are higher than our ways. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9)

He will  complete the good work He started in us. “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6)

He works all things together for our good. “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28)

I plan to share some of those surprises along the way. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, if you’re being blessed by Abounding Faith’s books, events, podcast, articles, etc. and you’d like to join this faith journey I’m on, I’d be delighted to have you as a member of Abounding Faith’s Dream Team! Let’s live our God-given dreams together!

As a Dream Team member, you get early access to Abounding Faith’s inspiring content to help encourage you on your faith journey, exclusive updates and info and you have the opportunity to be mentioned in shout outs on Abounding Faith’s growing social media and more (or you can remain anonymous if you prefer).

Looking ahead, I plan to continue inspiring men and women, young and older and those of diverse backgrounds to grow in their faith and love for God and live their God-given dreams. Will you join me? You can learn more about Abounding Faith’s Dream Team by clicking here.

The best is yet to come. Believe!

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Reflections and Highlights from 2018

My “One Word” for this year has been “Beauty.”  I’m grateful for this beautiful year that started with hosting my second women’s conference! What a blessing it was to be among all the lovely women who attended. What a delight to welcome Nyack College as the Presenting Sponsor! They generously offered a partial scholarship to one guest and my friends at Our Daily Bread Ministries and TBN NY also offered great prizes to my guests.

This year also included the launch of my fourth book, By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking With God Here and Abroad. What a joy to get to share how I’ve seen God’s miraculous and lovely fingerprints during my travels to 6 continents! By Faith is a book that has been stirring inside of me for years. I’m so grateful that God allowed me to release it this fall and that it’s been endorsed by Our Daily Bread Ministries, the President of Nyack College and a Regional Director of the Christian Women in Media Association!

And after years of thinking and praying about it, the Lord also saw it fit for me to launch the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast.” I’m thrilled that Season 1 of the “Abounding Faith for Today Podcast” is on iTunesSpotifyGoogle Podcasts or Stitcher and more!

Another delight was to have excerpts from By Faith published on SpiritLed Woman‘s website and Charisma’s social media! You can read excerpts about how God chased me down in Australia, how the Holy Spirit showed up during my short-term missions trip to Peru, how the Lord spoke to me during my trip to Israel and more. You can find links to all 6 six inspiring articles at AboundingFaith.com.

It was also a blessing to get to speak at Chapel at The Bowery Mission’s Women’s Center and The Bowery Mission’s Tribeca site and to help kick of the Christmas celebrations for my friends at Woodcrest Nursing Home and Rehab Center. What an honor it was to lead the service for my friends at Central Delaware Trinity Covenant on the last Sunday of the year! It was my fourth year in a row visiting them.

Other highlights from this year include getting to celebrate another birthday in my bday castle. Here’s a pic from one of my fave rooms, the library!

Here’s a short video greeting I shot in the library.

This year I also launched the Living by Abounding Faith collection on Abounding Faith’s online store. God is Good!

As I look back at some of the faces and places from this year, I smile and can see God’s hand in all of it. It hasn’t been a perfect year, but it has been filled with lots of beauty!

It helps to encourage me to continue inspiring and encouraging you and others through the words I write and speak and through the events I host and the items I create.

Walking by faith isn’t easy, but it’s worth it! I’m grateful that you’re on this journey with me.

As I look ahead to 2019 and beyond, I rest in knowing that God is in control and His beautiful plan for me and for you is already written and will continue to unfold in His perfect timing.

Keep fighting the good fight of faith! If you find yourself growing weary, as we all do at times, remember to keep reading your Bible and Pray, Dream, Do and Repeat!

If you’re being blessed by Abounding Faith’s books, events, podcast, articles, etc. and you’d like to join this faith journey I’m on, I’d be thrilled to have you become a member of Abounding Faith’s Dream Team! Let’s live our God-given dreams together!

As a Dream Team member, you get early access to Abounding Faith’s inspiring content to help encourage you on your faith journey, exclusive updates and info and you have the opportunity to be mentioned in shout outs on Abounding Faith’s growing social media and more (or you can remain anonymous if you prefer).

God willing, I plan to continue inspiring men and women, young and older and those of diverse backgrounds to grow in their faith and love for God and live their God-given dreams. Will you join me? You can learn more about Abounding Faith’s Dream Team by clicking here.

I look forward to what God has in store for 2019. Stay tuned! The best is yet to come! To God be the Glory! Blessings!