THE easiest slow cooker taco meat recipe for large groups! Our retreat ladies love taco night best of all, and this slow cooker taco meat recipe meant for large group cooking is one of the main reasons why! When we put the taco bar together, no one goes hungry. In addition to beef, we also offer our simplest shredded chicken as well. One crockpot full of this taco meat recipe can feed … [Read more...]
Learn to Make Custom Bookmarks for Faith Blog or Women’s Retreat Giveaways | Loving Christ
Create Custom Bookmarks in Word Do you have a faith blog? Creating custom bookmarks would be a great way to offer your readers a free printable. You could even use them as an opt-in for email sign-ups. I've designed bookmarks for each of our retreats and dropped them in the ladies' retreat goody bags as a freebie. They're perfect! If you've never created custom bookmarks, you're … [Read more...]
6 Ideas to Help You Plan Your Next Vehicle Purchase | Loving Christ
I’ve determined that I have to plan my next vehicle purchase! Yes, I know it's indicative of finally growing up...planning my next vehicle purchase...but since I'm almost 50, I know it's time! I want to be proactive and NOT reactive. In the last 10 years or so, I’ve done better with managing finances and being a good steward of my money. However, on a teacher’s and social worker’s (my … [Read more...]
30 Most Popular Door Prizes for a Women’s Retreat | Loving Christ
Our Most Popular Door Prizes for Women's Retreats Having meaningful door prizes at your women's retreats generates excitement and extra fun. Not that the ladies come for the door prizes, of course! But still, don't you know they get just a little more attentive and energetic when their names are drawn? I like to write about different icebreakers and breakout sessions for retreats, but I … [Read more...]
26 Blogging Terms Faith Bloggers Need to Know | Loving Christ
Blogging Terms Faith Bloggers Need to Know When I began blogging five years ago, I thought for a while I'd enrolled in a foreign language class. In the blogging groups in which I belonged, fellow bloggers talked about rich pins and evergreen and opt-ins and self-hosted and a million other blogging terms I'd never heard of. For those of you beginning on your blogging journey, let me share … [Read more...]
How to Claim Your Life When You’re Stuck in Grief | Loving Christ
In the depths of despair, you may have to claim your life so that don't stay stuck in grief. Growing through my grief has been the very thing I've latched onto to find purpose and passion in my life again after the death of my best friend, David. David died many years ago now. Those first few years I struggled big time trying to understand death and figure out the purpose for my life. … [Read more...]
7 Ways Meditation Can Improve Your Life | Loving Christ
Meditation Can Improve Your Life As a little girl, I went with my older, college-aged sister to her college ministry group. She belonged to a group called the Ecumenical Center (nicknamed simply The Center) where young adults from any denomination could come together and study, worship, praise, and participate in fun, Christian activities. They never minded when I tagged … [Read more...]
How to Crop a Picture into a Circle in PicMonkey | Loving Christ
How to Crop a Picture into a Circle in PicMonkey When I made my the sidebar image with my About Me information, I wanted my picture to stand out. I've seen others with their pictures cropped into circles and knew that's what I wanted, too. Because I love, love, love PicMonkey, I figured out how to do it here, and I want to share the steps with you. You can use circle images … [Read more...]
God Created You to Do Amazing Things by Mitzi Neely | Loving Christ
God Created You to Do Amazing Things by Mitzi Neely I know you'll love this guest post by Mitzi Neely. She stepped in to help me out when I had to miss time blogging due to my need to help my parents when they lost their home in a fire. Mitzi blogs at Peacefully Imperfect. You can also read a previous guest post, Bloom Where You are Planted, from her here at A Loving Christ. Recently I spent … [Read more...]
How to Get Your Debt Snowball Rolling | Loving Christ
Get Your Debt Snowball Rolling! My husband and I took Dave Ramsey's FPU in 2007. You'd think we'd be totally out of debt 10 years later, right? But we aren't. Sigh. Had we applied all we'd learned we would be, but wouldn't you know...we didn't. And we aren't. Oh, we're in better shape financially now than we would have been otherwise, but we still have debt. I firmly … [Read more...]