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Why Bible Study?

Over 100 First Free women will be gathering on Tuesday mornings and evenings this fall. Why? They’re going to the age-old, tried and true, classic Bible study--we call it Tuesday Connection. For decades, for generations, for hundreds of years, God’s people have gathered in one way or another to engage his Word together. So, why are we gathering around the Word like ...

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Women's Ministries Summer Reading Picks

Guess what, ladies?! Our church library has some brand new books lined up just for you. Following Pastor Matt’s blog series on reading with discernment, these new books will be a great way to engage what you’ve learned. Check out some new picks by current female authors below! These books are all labeled as a "Women's Ministries Pick" and were added to the library this...

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Pray With Us (The Retreat!)

Join us in praying for our upcoming Women's Retreat! FridaySaturday, March 7-8The Retreat! May he grant you your heart's desireand fulfill all your plans!May we shout for joy over your salvation,and in the name of our God set up our banners!May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!(Psalm 20:4-5)...

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Pray With Us (Thursday)

Join us in praying for our upcoming Women's Retreat! Day 7, Thursday, March 6 "Lord, look on the necessities of thy servant!" George Mueller May the Lord look upon us, see the needs of his daughters and attend to us. Pray for a commitment among us to follow up with women after the retreat. Ask God to keep his truths rooted firmly in our minds and provide us with opport...

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Pray With Us (Wednesday)

Join us in praying for our upcoming Women's Retreat! Day 6, Wednesday, March 5 Pray for the content of the retreat; pray that it is a place where God's Word and the gospel of Jesus Christ is spoken, sung, proclaimed, and heard with the power of the Spirit. May God give his Word great success as it goes forth among us! Ask that the planned activities be used to deepen the...

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Pray With Us (Tuesday)

Join us in praying for our upcoming Women's Retreat! Day 5, Tuesday, March 4 Pray that as we gather as sisters, that among us there would be an absence of fear, shame, jealousy, envy, strife, judgments, condescension, insecurity, gossip, inadequacy, self-centeredness, assumptions, slander, negativity, anxiety, worry, manipulating speech, and comparison. And in place of ...

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Pray With Us (Monday)

Join us in praying for our upcoming Women's Retreat! Day 4, Monday, March 3 "Can anything be too difficult to the Holy Spirit? It is a grand thing often to get into deep water so as to be obliged to swim; but we like to keep our feet touching the sand. What a mercy it is to feel that you cannot do anything, for then you must trust in God and God alone, and feel that He i...

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Pray With Us (Sunday)

Join us in praying for our upcoming Women's Retreat! Day 3, Sunday, March 2 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14) Pray that we at the retreat would be ins...

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Pray With Us (Saturday)

Join us in praying for our upcoming Women's Retreat! Day 2, Saturday, March 1 Pray that attendees, speakers, helpers, worship team, and prayer warriors would be shielded from Satan's attacks, his fiery arrows, his stumbling blocks, and the temptations he sends during this week before the event. Pray that we have discerning minds this week and keep our focus onward, onwar...

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Pray With Us (Friday)

Will you pray with us? The women of First Free are headed off to "retreat" and learn to "press on" together March 7-8! We desperately want this upcoming weekend to be a genuine work of God. Would you commit to pray for our time together? Check back as we will be posting a request each day leading up to the retreat. ...

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Pressing On! 2014 Women’s Retreat

Coming together as a body of women doesn’t happen every day. I don’t know about you, but I long for those lingering moments when I am with my sisters in Christ. Times when I can pray with them, talk with them, read God’s Word with them, hear God’s Word with them, and sing His praises with them. There’s just something about it. Knowing the loveliness of sisterhood...

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Harrased, Helpless, and Hassled?

As the holidays approach, I am remembering how "harassed" and "helpless" I tend to feel during this time of year. With all the shopping, errands, cooking, baking, thinking, planning, making, creating, wrapping, and searching, my insides will churn, my heart will feel tight, and, at 31, I’m probably two shakes away from keeling over in total exhaustion when I get in holid...

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Memorization: An Interview with Michal Rector

Michal Rector is a young mom who attends Tuesday Connection Bible Study. Here she shares how memorizing God’s Word has impacted her life this semester. What have you been memorizing this semester? The book of Philippians. So far I have chapters 1-3 memorized and I am currently working on chapter 4. What have been motivations for you to begin and continue this ende...

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Mothers, Show Them What To Pray

In his sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Josh mentioned the importance of teaching our children to pray. This can be hard for me, though God grows my passion for prayer more and more. With my own daughter, I often tend to ask her to pray and when she demonstrates insecurity about it, I confess I often brush her insecurity aside and say, “Just talk to him! A...

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Memorization: Picturing the Word

Memorizing God’s Word is a discipline that can easily become a source of pride and an act of duty. To fight this tendency, memorization must be accompanied by meditation. One way this can practically play out is listed in the Women’s Ministry memorization booklets on Philippians....

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Memorization: Laying Down Our [In]Security

I glanced over as slyly, as secretly, and as nonchalantly as I could to the woman sitting next to me. She had an array of Bible study tools out before her. Propped side by side upon the “dash” of the train window was her Bible, her reading book, her Bible study book, her snack, her drink…she was ready....

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Memorization: Laying Down Our Rebel Hearts

“Great is the Lord, and bmmmbsflk mumble jumble...” I heard my daughter say, as we were working on her memory verse for Awana. “Sweetie, I can’t hear you. You need to speak up and speak clearly.” My insides were churning with rising anger while I attempted to keep the tone of my voice patient and kind. I had stated this verse to her dozens of times. I knew...

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An Interview on Memorization

First Free Women are gearing up to hide God’s Word in their hearts this fall. Here’s an interview with Lindsey Claassen, whose desire to memorize the Word of God is a testimony of God’s faithfulness and goodness to those who are called by his name....

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A Plea to Our God

Here is one woman’s response to last week’s sermon on Ephesians 1:15-23. May it encourage you in your own response: Father of Glory, Author and Sustainer of Life, It is you who gives me my life, my breath, my being; ...

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Finding JOY in Memorizing the Word

Already anticipating the next women's retreat? Start gearing up for it now, and join First Free Women this fall as we find JOY in memorizing God's Word together! Preparing your hearts and minds now will make you ready to receive powerful truths from the book of Philippians later at the March 7-8, 2014, Women's Retreat. ...

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Stuck in the Mud

I will venture to say that many of us do not always feel “eager” to become like Christ. We confess our sin and want to be rid of it, but often resist the godly qualities that are supposed to replace those sins. We don’t want to do the work involved. We cling to sin we’ve always believed to be part of our personality--" fear, apathy, temper, worry. We know how to ...

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Natives of Heaven

I never want to be "just like" everybody else. There’s a little piece deep down inside of me that tends to enjoy going against the grain at times (sometimes for the good...sometimes for the bad, I’ll shamefully confess!). You would think, as a believer living in this fallen world, that this “not wanting to be like everybody else” desire in me would help when it c...

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Summer Reading List

Summer’s here! That means lots of spontaneous activity, rather than the regular weekly routines we settle into during the fall and winter months. With all the “free” time we have to “do as we please” during the summer, there is often room for a few new books to add to our reading lists. Here are several “top picks” to add to your summer reading list fro...

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