"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest."--Corrie ten Boom Dutch watchmaker Corrie ten Boom, with her courageous, God-fearing family, sheltered Jews from the Nazis during World War II. This led to her arrest and suffering in… Continue reading Book Review: God Is My Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Tag: Christian living
Balm for the Anxious Heart
Do you feel like the earth is giving way? Like everything we know is either interrupted or about to be? Does that make you as anxious as it makes me? If so, then keep reading. Psalm 46 blessed my heart and I pray it blesses yours. "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore… Continue reading Balm for the Anxious Heart
Words to Live by in 2021
I wrote this for my newsletter last week and felt led to share it here as well. I hope it encourages you. Are you familiar with the practice of taking on a word for the year? It seems to be an updated version of making New Year's Resolutions.The idea is to prayerfully consider a single… Continue reading Words to Live by in 2021
Surviving the Quarantine with a Reading Challenge and Scavenger Hunt
This post is exactly what the title says it is. 🙂 I'm bringing you a new reading challenge and scavenger hunt while you're being quarantined. I'm also going live Mon-Fri in my Facebook group, Tea Time with A.M. Heath. So if you're looking for someone to fellowship with outside of your home, plan to meet… Continue reading Surviving the Quarantine with a Reading Challenge and Scavenger Hunt
Book Review: Wedding Score by Amanda Tero
About the Release Are you a single who has been in this singleness journey a little longer than you anticipated? This week is the release of Amanda Tero’s contemporary fiction novella, “Wedding Score.” Main character Stephanie is there with you as she’s suddenly thrown into a season of discontentment and impatience. Told in a whimsical,… Continue reading Book Review: Wedding Score by Amanda Tero
Standing Before the Burning Bush: And The Aftermath
I was talking with a friend and her circumstances made me reference this blog post. And that's when it hit me: not only is this message easy to relate to and worthy of repeating, but I'm also standing on the other side of it now. So I wanted to take the time to re-share a… Continue reading Standing Before the Burning Bush: And The Aftermath
GIVEAWAY!! Plus Author Interview and Book Review: A Holy Passion by Alicia G. Ruggieri
“My heart begins its slow crescendo at the news. Mr. Brainerd – my Mr. Brainerd – has come at last.” After a few scant years of solitary missionary work among the American Indians on the colonial frontier, David Brainerd has been forced off the field once more by his terminal illness. A man who has… Continue reading GIVEAWAY!! Plus Author Interview and Book Review: A Holy Passion by Alicia G. Ruggieri
God Doesn’t Hand Out Crutches
What is a spiritual crutch? A spiritual crutch is anything you turn to for comfort, for peace, or for security. Looking at that basic definition, we may not be quick to say that we use spiritual crutches. By that definition, these crutches sound an awful lot like a false god and we know better than to… Continue reading God Doesn’t Hand Out Crutches
My Testimony
I'll be celebrating a birthday this month, so I like to take time each year to share another special birthday: my conversion story. I attended a church program when I was seventeen. At the end of that program, I believed that God was dealing with my heart so I walked down the aisle, spoke with… Continue reading My Testimony
Book Review: I Will Not Fear by Melba Pattillo Beals
In 1957, Melba Beals was one of the nine African American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. But her story of overcoming didn't start--or end--there. While her white schoolmates were planning their senior prom, Melba was facing the business end of a double-barreled shotgun, being threatened with lynching by rope-carrying… Continue reading Book Review: I Will Not Fear by Melba Pattillo Beals