Harvest House Publishers

I unknowingly started writing this message more than 17 years ago when I took a break from posting tutorials about refinishing furniture and budget-friendly decorating on my blog, Miss Mustard Seed, to encourage readers to pursue whatever creative work was calling them. Even then, I wanted to invite them to choose their natural pace over hustle culture and creation over consu...

I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lᴏʀᴅ in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lᴏʀᴅ. PSALM 27:13-14 Enemy’s Tactics: God must not hear you praying. He’s not answering. Divine Strategy: You can be confident in My love and perfect timing for every situation in your life. My planner became a painful reminde...

Have you ever reached the end of the day and wondered if anything you did really mattered? You made the meals, answered the emails, folded another load of laundry, cared for your family, checked another item off your to-do list, and before long, the day was over. Then you woke up the next morning and did pretty much all of it again. Most of life isn’t made up of the big momen...

“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” —Alfred Tennyson A friend of mine once said, “The greatest thing about the Bible is that it doesn’t hide the sins of its heroes.” And in a way, I suppose that’s true. Those unsavory details give the Scriptures a certain credibility. If the Bible were a work of fiction about the God of morality, it would probably feature c...

A striking aspect of Revelation chapter 1 is this special promise: “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near” (verse 3). If you want to grab people’s attention these days, use the word blessed. There are bestselling books, messages, and even conferences dedicated to the idea of “...