Made for Community Study Journal

Thank you for joining us for the study Made for Community! Love God Greatly is a community with a deep love for God and a lasting desire to inspire, encourage, and equip each other and women from all over the world. As was mentioned in Wednesday’s blog post, for the...

For the last eight weeks, we have read, soaped, and discussed ‘Made for Community.’ Now we’d like to share about our Love God Greatly community of women! We connect with our Lord and each other by using our phones and computers. The majority of the team behind Love...

This week here at LoveGodGreatly, we are having a special time of sharing how God has been working through our study in our LGG community groups! It's going to be a fun filled week of celebration and we can't wait to share all our stories with you!...

Are you familiar with Penn & Teller? They are two men who have been around for many years putting on magic shows. Penn Jillette is an outspoken atheist. After one of his shows a businessman came up to him and spoke very kindly about his show. He then told him that...

Kids often say what we adults are already thinking... but with words we wouldn't dare let come out of our mouths. "Why are they homeless? Don't they have jobs? Daddy has a job..." My husband had just walked in the door from delivering food to the homeless shelter...

Oh friends, this is the message I so desperately want to get out into our communities... and our world. We live in a world that tells us we can somehow “earn” our way to heaven….as if we can ever come close to being “good enough” through our own strength, our own...

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.  As each has received...

  True community. We all crave it, but it can be so difficult to find, can’t it?! We sat on wooden benches creaking under our weight. The music blaring next door ringing in our ears. Several different languages spoken all under one roof with names like Luganda...

One thing was clear... It wasn't about her. Listen, her job wasn't fancy. My kids knew her as "the pretzel lady" at our local wholesale club. I knew her as the gentle soul whose kind eyes and generous smile comforted this weary mama every single time she humbly served...

A few days ago I felt blah and unmotivated. I was frustrated by all the imperfections I saw in my life. The following day a friend of mine at church came up to me and started sharing about her week. We were experiencing the same feelings but instead of wallowing...

“Jesus works in community. For that reason, you find no personal pronouns in the earliest description of the church.”- Max Lucado Dare I say it? You. Me. Us…..we were made for this…. Each of us purposely unique, specially designed with certain gifts and abilities to...

And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers Acts 2:42 Welcome to week 5 of our Made for Community study. This week we are talking about the fact that we are made for the local church. Someone once...

I could tell you story after story, starting back from the time I was a little girl... A bag full of groceries snuck in the backseat of our car during church. An offer for free childcare during a season of night classes. Church camp scholarship notifications year...

Honestly, I don't care for anything dripping all over me... especially not anything sticky, gooey, or melty. I get plenty of that just being a mom {can I get an amen?!}. But, I do love this word picture of  fragrant oil poured out on Aaron. It soothes and calms my...

I LOVE these girls… I’ve had the pleasure… no, the blessing of being their DG Leader (Discipleship Leader) for five years! I have seen them grow from adorable pre-teens in the seventh grade to beautiful teenagers now in the eleventh grade…right before my eyes. Time is...

I'm a do-er in this house. We moms have a constant pulse on what the state-of-the-home is at any moment, don't we? And we're not afraid to hold our own little press conferences and announce it to anyone who will listen. I'm a meal-making, schoolwork-checking,...

This is my family. It was the perfect Fall day in small-town Indiana. Everyone is showered, our clothes are color coordinated, my gray hair is strategically covered, and our kids are all smiling because we promised ice cream if they gave us one good picture. Just one...

  -The more I gave, the more she took. She didn't say thank you. She didn't look me in the eye. She asked and I gave. I gave my time, my energy, my money. For months on end, I invested myself.... but in the face of the ungratefulness I was met with? I retreated...

I ran my third half marathon this past December. Let me be really honest with you all... I’m not one of those runners who ENJOYS running. It’s hard at times and can be oh, so painful. Some of my friends who train with me run faster than me, so at times I can get...

Hi ladies, I am so glad to be with you today. Welcome to week two of our Made for Community study. I am so encouraged to see women from around the world coming together to study God's Word together. I am here in Uganda and many are joining us from other places in the...

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. John 13: 14-15 Do you remember the small bit of hell that breaks out the night of Jesus’ arrest?  We...

It's 1995, and I might just be in the middle of an identity crisis. I've changed my college major three times, I'm so broke that I can barely scrounge up enough quarters to do a load of laundry, and I can't pass Organic Chemistry to save my life. And I'm desperately...

Welcome to our study on Made for Community. I'm so glad you have joined us.  I think this will be a great eight week series. This week we are looking at Made For Community with God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EcRtDIUzIY&feature=youtu.be (Click here if you...

I thought the day would never come. This teenage boy of mine - marked by fuzz above his lip and one in clear need of an extra dose of deodorant - no longer hangs around me every waking moment of his life. It's a natural transition. One that I thought I was ready for....

  Celebrate with us... our {Made for Community} Translations are available TODAY!!!! The internet is an amazing thing, amen?! Not a day goes by that we don't thank God for the incredible opportunity He's given us to inspire, encourage and equip women all over the...