I’m standing in the kitchen this week when I whisper to the Farmer: “We need a password.” He raises his eyebrows, and I look for the answer to the question his eyes are asking: “It’...
We know we won’t be perfect in this lifetime… For those who struggle with perfectionism in their relationship with God, Faith Chang has words of rest and relief born of her own wrestling with...
Ruth’s walk with Jesus is the real deal and she’s one of my most cherished friends, a deep well of wisdom. Her articulation of the tension we all live in—between where we are and where we l...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/04/from-restlessness-to-true-rest/
“In one sentence, what does it come down to — what is the one most important thing for people to know?” The Romanian journalist leaned forward, asking me the question at the end of an hour ...
Weeks after her twenty-sixth birthday, Katherine Wolf suffered a catastrophic brainstem stroke that should have killed her. But she survived, although her life, her body, and her soul would never...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/04/what-the-locusts-ate-dreams-of-restoration/
Maybe when your first real introduction to Jesus is through a dream, you should expect life to take an unexpected turn. Tessa Afshar, who was born in a nominally Muslim family in the Middle East,...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/04/how-to-deal-with-stress-burnout-find-real-soul-rest/
It was on Holy Week Thursday, Maundy Thursday, maundatam Thursday, that the betrayed Jesus gave His people all a new mandate, that command of the Last Supper: “As I have loved you, so you must ...
Author Craig Allen Cooper is no stranger to disillusionment, discouragement, and despair. Frequently rolled by the waves in his own life, Craig has dug deep for decades into the well of God’s t...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/how-to-dive-back-in-instead-of-letting-fear-control-your-story/
Just after a winter sun rose scarlet across snow white fields, I find a curled newborn lamb shivering, still freshly wet, in the corner of the chilled tiny barn. The narrow way is the only way ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/holy-week-pilgrimage-into-the-narrow-way-that-expands-your-heart/
To answer the question so many of us ask, “What is my purpose?” Dr. Naomi Cramer Overton looks to the Bible to see what we can learn from people who God works through greatly. She lives to re...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/yes-you-can-live-your-extraordinary-purpose/
I went down to the river to pray. And that may sound like living some highfalutin old time spiritual, when in reality the river at the back of the farm runs through an abandoned old gravel pit wi...
Charaia Rush pulls us in today with the vulnerable story of her labor and delivery, one of the hardest moments in a woman’s life, and reminds us of the story of Naomi from the book of Ruth: Whi...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/why-you-are-more-than-the-sum-of-your-most-painful-moments/
Has something taken your focus off of the Cross this Easter season? Master storyteller Charles Martin has written twenty-five books, and in this sacred space leading up to Resurrection Sunday, he...
In a world where we are told we need to be enough for everyone, including ourselves, the weight of being the savior of our stories is too much for us to bear. What if you could lean into the capa...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/do-you-feel-like-youre-never-enough-heres-why-you-dont-need-to-be/
Do you sometimes feel at the end of your rope? Looking for a fresh start — or wishing for a do-over? Let's embrace something new together. We're adding a special touch to our weekly Multivitami...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-week-ahead-03-09-2024/
Not many people are willing to truly make eye contact with the pain of other people. It’s uncomfortable, it’s messy, and it pushes against the edges of our faith frameworks. Kristen LaValley ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/no-matter-what-im-happy-youre-here/
Have you ever had a dream that you thought was unattainable? That hasn’t stopped this woman. My guest today, Nancy Gavilanes, doubted herself and maybe even God a bit, and she still chose to be...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/created-with-extravagant-love/
It’s during the second week of Lent that I walk through the messy renovations two of our sons are in the midst of. As they show me how they burning the candle early and late to brave the work o...
Do you sometimes feel at the end of your rope? Looking for a fresh start — or wishing for a do-over? Let's embrace something new together. We're adding a special touch to our weekly Multivitami...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/03/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-week-ahead-03-02-2024/
Her and I are deep — she’s one of my daily go-to people; Jennie Allen and I know what’s going on in the most tender and hard places of each other’s lives. Over the last 13 years of doing ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/02/what-to-do-with-feelings-that-are-meant-to-be-felt-not-fixed/
I mean, maybe it shouldn’t come as a surprise? “You have to know where your feet are actually at, to decide what map you actually have to get into your hands. Wrong Map? Wrong way.” But if ...
Both students together at Wheaton, & a beloved friend whom I highly esteem, I’ve seen how Aubrey Sampson, a truly incredible writer and thinker, is passionate about walking with those who are h...
Do you sometimes feel at the end of your rope? Looking for a fresh start — or wishing for a do-over? Let's embrace something new together. We're adding a special touch to our weekly Multivitami...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/02/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-week-ahead-02-24-2024/
When pediatric nurse, Allyson Golden, experienced her hardest and darkest shift, she asked God, “Where was Your light in that situation?” Allyson learned that she wasn’t alone in asking tha...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/02/when-you-ask-where-is-the-light-of-god-in-this-situation/
In the days after Ash Wednesday & reflecting on how we are all dust, & to dust we shall return, I keep walking gingerly across our farm house’s century-old planks floors, with the finish wear...
God gives each of us dreams and callings that encourage us to see beyond our current circumstances and focus on the possibilities for the future. Unfortunately, many of us abandon our dreams and ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/02/how-god-given-dreams-do-come-true/
A journalist and mom of three, Whitney lived under the shadow of her mother’s cancer diagnosis for much of her childhood and into her adult years. But it wasn’t until cancer took her mother�...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/02/when-your-body-is-carrying-the-trauma-of-a-hard-story/
I wouldn’t know until afterward, when I came to in the recovery room, that the projected hour long surgery had ended up morphing into 3. Humbly realize you can always end up being the unexpec...
Do you sometimes feel at the end of your rope? Looking for a fresh start — or wishing for a do-over? Let's embrace something new together. We're adding a special touch to our weekly Multivitami...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/02/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-week-ahead-02-10-2024/
Grief is something that cannot be quantified or qualified. It surges and ebbs unexpectedly, and grows over the losses we experience in our lives—loss of loved ones, innocence, health, and dream...
Few writers can communicate the wonder of God’s Word as deeply as Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. Her love for Scripture is evident—and infectious. Nancy’s new devotional book, Incomparable: 50 Day...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/02/when-youre-looking-for-love-how-the-cross-of-christ-forms-a-family/
I’ve known Susie for years and I love and esteem her to the moon and back…. We first met when I was a guest on her radio show and I was deeply struck by the rare, deep well of wisdom she is. ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/02/what-youve-got-to-figure-out-what-to-accept-what-to-reject/
It never ceases to amaze me how so many of our stories have similar threads. We look into faces different from ours, hear names we’ve not heard before—and yet, we still sense something famili...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/what-if-the-more-you-shared-the-less-it-would-hurt/
Do you sometimes feel at the end of your rope? Looking for a fresh start — or wishing for a do-over? Let's embrace something new together. We're adding a special touch to our weekly Multivitami...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-week-ahead-01-27-2024/
One of the things I appreciate most about John Mark Comer’s writing is how straightforward he is about Jesus’s clarion call to unhurry our lives—not to check off a box but so we have more s...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/why-wasting-time-with-god-is-what-our-hearts-need-most/
Kate Bowler believes the cultural pressure to be cheerful and optimistic at all times has taken a toll on our faith. But what if we could find better language than forced positivity to express ou...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/how-to-live-in-the-beautiful-terrible/
Do you sometimes feel at the end of your rope? Looking for a fresh start — or wishing for a do-over? Let's embrace something new together. We're adding a special touch to our weekly Multivitami...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-week-ahead-01-20-2024/
As a wife and mom, designer, writer, and a passionate advocate for community transformation, Jenny Marrs believes that beautiful spaces are most often imperfect and full of character. Just like p...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/when-our-souls-feel-the-sacred-call-to-rest/
Hannah Kuhn is a twentysomething writer from West Michigan who is passionate about using the power of God’s Word and her gift of writing to encourage others to cling to God when this world says...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/want-to-feel-seen-heard-loved-wanted-in-the-midst-of-rejection-fears/
Not too often is having seven kids the similarity you share with someone. But Sarah Molitor and I had an instant bond because of it. Pair that with raising our kids to love Jesus and His Word, an...
Almost a year ago Caleb, my eldest son, and I had discussed ideas for a gratitude journal that could be started at any time of year, and that would be uniquely formatted in a way that allows you ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/gratitude-unwrapped-a-guide-to-post-holiday-new-year-joy/
That low lying storm cloud that hangs over you can’t master the light of Christ that raises you.
You know, I always deeply appreciate Jesus followers who are honest about the challenges of the spiritual life. Without falling into those cliches or platitudes that leave us empty, Faith Eury Ch...
Happy, happy, happy, New Year! Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good God rede...
https://annvoskamp.com/2024/01/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-01-06-2024/
Happy, happy, happy (early) New Year! Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good G...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-12-30-2023/
There are times in our lives that feel impossible. Weary from long days, we wonder if God sees us or even cares. Beloved friend and author Ruth Schwenk has spent almost two decades ministering to...
Merry, merry, merry (early) Christmas! Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-12-23-2023/
On Gaudete Sunday, that third Sunday of Advent when the world lights the joy candle — Gaudete meaning “rejoice” in Latin — it’s our third son, Levi, who stands at the front of the churc...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/how-to-rejoice-at-christmas-when-family-feels-tender/
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good God redeem...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-12-09-2023-2/
Tender & terrible things still happen in what’s supposed to be the happiest season of all. On the 9th day of Advent, I cut my hand open on the lid of a tin can — and end up in ER for 4 and a ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/if-your-christmas-holds-some-sadness-tears-hardships/
So Alan Wright pulls in today to with a question: For Christians who want to grow spiritually, it may seem natural to ask, “What would Jesus do?” But what if that’s perhaps the wrong questi...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/when-youd-really-love-to-see-things-from-jesus-perspective/
I’m not a stranger to the midnight hours of motherhood—the blur and blinking toward the clock after little hands have reached to rouse me from sleep, or those hours when sleep has been altoge...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/hope-for-the-midnight-moments-of-motherhood/
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good God redeem...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-12-09-2023/
Elizabeth Laing Thompson loves meeting women in the messy places of faith, the places whereemotions fly, insecurity whispers, and shame points its crooked finger. In her new book When aFriendship...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/3-misconceptions-about-forgiveness-that-may-be-keeping-you-stuck/
I’d been going around for days asking myself, “So what’s the story here?” Mainly because I read that a father had stopped asking his son after school every day, “So, how was your day?...
I literally couldn’t be more thrilled about this needed edition of the Bible! So I’m leaning in with Evie Polsley, a member of the Bible team at Tyndale House Publishers, where she helps prov...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/if-your-family-feels-kinda-mixed-up-the-truth-and-illusion-of-family/
Happy, happy, happy weekend!( Wanna come CELEBRATE A BIG HAPPY SURPRISE GIVEAWAY?) And too: Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/12/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-12-02-2023/
“The real wonder of Christmas is that we don’t have to make Christmas magical – when we simply enter into the wonder of what’s Scriptural. “ Dear Fam, all my dear, dear, Brave hearts�...
So my dear mama’s just had knee surgery this past week, and during her tender recovery on the cusp of Advent, I can’t stop thinking about this & what unforgettably unfolded when I took her to...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/11/how-we-get-a-merry-real-revolutionary-christmas-story/
In the midst of tender days, days when it’s desperately hard to find hope, I retreated to the desert to pray. 13 miles into the desert, to be exact. 13 miles of twisting, turning, washboard r...
Evie Polsley is passionate about helping kids engage with God’s Word in ways they can understand. She has worked with kids at her church for more than 20 years, and more often than not, as she ...
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Some real, down in the bones JOY to celebrate today! Links & stories this week 100% guaranteed to make you smile a mile wide & believe like crazy in a Good God redeem...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/11/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-11-25-2023/
The Farmer and I are out somewhere on an wide-open highway in the early days of Advent when I catch the phrase sprawled across a billboard: The holidays alwaysfind a way. * But what sticks with m...
Few people radiate such joy in the present moment or hope in the promise of heaven the way Joni Eareckson Tada does. I trust Joni when she speaks of God’s comfort and peace because she is so st...
Happy, happy, happy pre-Thanksgiving weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/11/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-11-18-2023/
The happiness was literally all around her.
Ellen Wildman holds firm to the belief that everyone is a theologian. She wants to help others feel like the Bible and theology are accessible to them. Her work as the Bible publisher at DaySprin...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/11/beyond-cliches-the-true-impact-of-faith-hope-and-love/
As parents, we’re tasked with nurturing and guiding our children—even as we navigate our own wonderings about faith. In the overwhelm and constant demands of life, is it possible to tend to b...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/11/how-to-stay-connected-through-changing-seasons/
Few writers can communicate the wonder of God’s Word as deeply as Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth. For more than sixty years, she has been on a lifelong quest to know and love Jesus more deeply and has ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/11/why-we-can-still-walk-forward-into-the-light-this-christmas/
I overheard some deeply hurting guy say it this week, that after being glued to the news for the last two weeks, after seeing bloody rage and inhumane agony that feels like we’ve somehow all lo...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/10/hurting-for-all-the-suffering-in-the-world-start-here/
This is a strange beauty in a broken world: Shards make art. On a sticky humid evening toward the end of one searing hot summer, I’m sitting at a table in a glorious circle of audacious fri...
K.A. Ellis always assumed that if she asked God for wisdom, He would supernaturally impart it as He did for Solomon. It wasn’t until she found herself curled up in a ball on the bed with tears ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/09/want-wisdom-a-wise-home-start-here/
One of the many things I appreciate about Dr. Lee Warren is that he helps me name and embrace the world’s immense sorrows as well as Christ’s incredible joys. Only someone who has experienced...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/09/grabbing-on-to-life-again-after-disappointment-loss/
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/09/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-9-2-2023/
When you meet Joyce Koo Dalrymple you can’t help but absolutely love and esteem her — she’s truly one of the most radiant souls I’ve ever known. I first met Joyce when I was pursuing my m...
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-8-26-2023/
You don't miss a beat when thankfulness is the beat of your heart.
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-8-19-2023/
After I pass the lane for Appalachian Outhouses, there’s a flashing portable marquee sign about fires up ahead and watch for visible smoke, and then I turn past Turkey Cove Baptist Church...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/the-unexpected-secrets-to-growing-happier-as-you-grow-older/
I’ve known Susie Larson for years. We first met when I was a guest on her radio show. We talked about the thousands of ways God has shown us His goodness. Susie and I have shared the platform a...
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-8-12-2023/
Bible teacher Kat Armstrong is back to spark your holy curiosity. Instead of zooming in on one verse she guides us through the storylines and themes of scripture to see how the Bible is a literar...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/even-the-worst-of-us-gets-an-invitation/
When our farm girl, our sixth, packs her bags to leave just past midnight, none of us say it, but we all know: this is a bit of a dry run for what’s actually coming. What no one tells you as yo...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/how-do-you-navigate-change-transitions/
I’ve always appreciated the authenticity of Anne Graham Lotz and Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright, whether they are writing about their family, their spiritual lives, or their own struggles. Today this ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/how-your-simple-kindness-is-part-of-saving-the-world/
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-8-5-2023/
You’ve tried it all—saying the right words, praying the right prayers, reading the right Bible verses—and still, nothing seems to be working. You’re tired of trying. What else can you do ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/08/facing-god-in-our-greatest-fears-and-unanswered-questions/
When we love deeply, we mourn deeply. When Mike Nappa lost his beloved wife, Amy, to cancer, he had moments where he wondered if he’d ever feel joy or hope again. Thankfully, his friends and fa...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/were-never-really-ready-to-lose-someone-we-love/
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-7-29-2023/
It’s almost harvest time, here on the farm, the Farmer watching the sky, the weather, waiting every day for a dry stretch with no rain, so the wheat might dry down enough to gather in. And seei...
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-7-22-2023/
Our first child was born in the spring of 1995. And our 7th child was born at the end of summer of 2014, and for a few months every year, our seven children span, from oldest to youngest, across ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/one-parenting-hack-i-discovered-with-my-7th-child/
Last time, she took her “Shero” doll, hand crocheted by her Great Aunt Maureen, the whole way with her when they rolled her away from us and into the operating room to saw open her sternum an...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/when-you-your-people-need-comfort-courage-a-real-hero-for-your-story/
A dear, trusted friend first introduced me to Alicia Britt Chole and her writings. We both look forward to the day we can enjoy good talks, long walks, and great cups of tea together. Alicia is n...
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-7-15-2023/
The man looked me straight in the eye and flat-out told me: Cut yourself off from what truly delivers sustenance — and nothing can truly deliver you. “I didn’t send you a sympathy card ...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/why-our-lack-of-rootedness-is-slowly-killing-us/
The one who reads good words… becomes more like the Word. If you read good words that have been tried & proven, it turns out that when your life is tried, it will be proven good. The more y...
When this new way of engaging counting gifts & growing my gratitude muscle came to me, & I worked out a new way to count gifts- — I was frankly, beyond ecstatic! So it’s a wild delight to wel...
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-7-8-2023/
When the heat of July finally gives way to a good summer rain falling across our fields of wheat and sheep? It feels like a real invitation to curl up on the front porch swing with a blanket, a c...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/free-audible-get-my-books-for-free/
Happy, happy, happy weekend! Come along with us here because who doesn’t need a bit of good news? Let yourself smile, be crazy inspired, laugh, love & really live the gift of this lifejust a li...
https://annvoskamp.com/2023/07/only-the-good-stuff-multivitamins-for-your-weekend-7-1-2023/