Growing Graceful

by Linda

Easy Butter Cake; A Gluten-free, Sourdough Recipe {using leftover starter}

Are you planning a cake for your Easter celebration? Extra starter you’d like to use up? Company coming over? This cake will fit the bill. 🙂 I grew up with my mom making Betty Crockers “Bonnie Butter Cake” for birthdays. She made it in cake pans, sheet pans, as cup cakes… you name it, we […]

by Linda

Praying God’s Will; 2 Thessalonians, Chapter 1

Good morning, Friend. 🙂 How was your week? Spring Ladies’ Retreat happened out at Camp over the weekend, and it was so good to catch up with special women I see only once or twice a year. The speaker taught from John 15 all weekend, on the theme of Abiding, which was our theme in […]

by Linda

How to Develop a Working Budget

I recently shared how our family started tithing, and even more recently, how God enabled us to begin giving a portion of what is left every month (a total miracle). In order to be responsible with our finances, I learned to look at our monthly financial picture and devise a budget. It is the only […]

by Linda

Praying God’s Will; 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 5

Good morning! Are you ready for a new week full of new blessings and fresh perspectives? Every week God takes something we learned from the previous chapter and brings it to life for me, in some way or another. In 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, we prayed that “God will guide us, that we will live […]

by Linda

Growing in the Fruit of Self-Control

Self-control. It is the last of the nine characteristics of spiritual fruit listed in Galations 5:22 and 23, but it certainly is not the least. Just like love is listed first and is paramount for a fruitful life, self-control is a necessary component in order to yield to the Holy Spirit’s will as He molds […]