[Our newest Bible study, Micah: Hear and Hope in God’s Word, is available in the Well-Watered Co. today! Today’s article is the study introduction letter from the author, Gretchen. Keep reading for the excerpt and all the answers to your frequently asked questions about our new Micah Collection.] Introducing Micah: Hear and Hope in God’s […]

A NOTE FROM GRETCHEN I don’t want to just own a Bible; I want to know my Bible. I don’t want to just read my Bible every so often; I want to study my Bible and to live out what Scripture teaches. God’s Word is not meant to sit on a shelf and collect dust; […]

A Note from Gretchen Every day we make plans and fill our agendas with meetings, projects, and things that need to get done, but life rarely goes according to plan. What if we gave the Holy Spirit our planners each day and welcomed him into the planning, the scheduling, and the changes?  God is in […]

When we think about the Holy Spirit, we often scratch our heads the way my three-year-old son does when I tell him that God is three Persons.  “But who are the three Persons?” he asks me. “The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,” I smile, knowing the weight of the Trinity is too much […]

A NOTE FROM GRETCHEN Idol worship creeps into our hearts quickly. The phones we believe we must have by our sides at all times, the profiles we strive to build and maintain, the portfolios we work tirelessly to improve, the people we think we must know and be loved by in order to be important—all […]

A NOTE FROM GRETCHEN We meet under towering oak trees, blankets sprawled across the grass, babies babbling, and toddlers playing in the sandbox nearby. I’m makeup-free with a hat on to hide my unkempt hair, and there’s a good chance I ran out of time to brush my teeth as I scrambled to make it […]

A Note from Rachael I’ve often heard the advice, “Don’t prepare for seasons you aren’t in.” Essentially people were encouraging me not to borrow tomorrow’s trouble when the worries of today often already felt like too much for me to hold. But why not take note of truths in Scripture as we come upon them, […]

Dear Sister, The temptation of Jesus is a wellspring of wisdom, insight, and hope, but it also exposes what’s in our own hearts. As I wrote Victory in Jesus: A Lent Study Guide, I waded into the depths of my own sin and saw my propensity to give in to temptation at every corner. But […]

A Note from Gretchen A red bird flitters to the barren branch outside my kitchen window, and snapshots from a long-ago memory rush through my mind like the credits to a movie—my college dorm room, the ugly AC unit outside my fourth-story window, tears streaming down my face. It’s not a pretty memory, but it’s […]

Whenever I’m experiencing discontent in the midst of the incredible bounty that God has blessed me with, it’s a sign that I’m looking for satisfaction in the things of this world.  Identifying the problem is a good place to start, but nothing will change until we begin searching for our satisfaction in the nutrient-rich truth […]