A Mother’s Influence

Carrie KittingerFaith, Parenting

Moms have influence over their sons. How we choose to wield this influence is powerful. Just this week I read in 2 Chronicles 22:2-3 about a king in Judah by the name of Ahaziah. “Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king … he too walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother encouraged him …

Mighty Women Who Rise Up

Carrie KittingerFaith

 “Village life in Israel ceased, ceased until I, Deborah, arose, arose a mother in Israel.” Judges 5:7  Deborah was a spiritual leader as well as a political leader at a time when a woman in leadership was rare. In a man’s world, she was a judge who held court under a palm tree – doesn’t that sound like a pretty …