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Stacy Reaoch

Stacy Reaoch is the author of Beautiful Freedom: How the Bible Shapes Your View of Appearance, Food, and Fitness. She also writes regularly at her website. She and her husband, Ben, live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with their four children.

Loving Difficult People

Loving Difficult People

God doesn’t call us to avoid or ignore difficult people, but to lean into relationships with difficult people, confident that he will meet us there.

Singleness Is Not a Problem to Be Solved

Singleness Is Not a Problem to Be Solved

If you want to make the most of singleness, even while you long to be married, here are a few practical points I learned in my own season of waiting.

Organic Food, Essential Oils, and the Gospel of Grace

Organic Food, Essential Oils, and the Gospel of Grace

When promoting personal food and medicine choices becomes our latest form of evangelism, we are showing where our hope really lies.

What If God Wants Me to Marry Someone Ugly?

What If God Wants Me to Marry Someone Ugly?

It can be easy to look at the less-than-ideal circumstances that surround us and wonder whether God is saving the best for someone else.

When Fear Seizes You

When Fear Seizes You

When fear seizes us, all our ability to think rationally evaporates. But during our moments of fear and panic, God is whispering promises to us.

Should I Be Friends with My Ex?

Should I Be Friends with My Ex?

The best place to go after a breakup is not Netflix or cookie dough, but the word of God.

When God Withholds Sleep: How to Handle Restless Nights

When God Withholds Sleep

How to Handle Restless Nights

God made us to sleep. But when rest evades us for one reason or another, he will use even our sleeplessness to draw us nearer to him.

Exercise for More of God: Five Reasons to Train Your Body

Exercise for More of God

Five Reasons to Train Your Body

Exercise to steward your body. Exercise to serve others. Exercise to think clearly. Exercise to evangelize. Exercise to delight yourself in God.

Let Not Food Destroy the Body: Laying Aside the Weight of Preferences

Let Not Food Destroy the Body

Laying Aside the Weight of Preferences

God has given food an unusual power to bring people together — and to drive them apart. Beware of letting your preferences rob you of love.

Depressed and Thankful: Six Ways to Find Joy

Depressed and Thankful

Six Ways to Find Joy

We cannot manipulate our hearts to escape depression. We put our hope in God’s help — and one of the strongest weapons he gives is gratitude.

God Fills Our Lives with Trials

God Fills Our Lives with Trials

The test of faith is not whether we experience trials, but how we respond to them.

Submission Is a Mark of Maturity

Submission Is a Mark of Maturity

How we respond to difficult decisions made by the leadership over us is a test of Christian maturity.

God Chose Your Mother-in-Law: Five Reasons for Wives to Lean In

God Chose Your Mother-in-Law

Five Reasons for Wives to Lean In

A wife’s relationship with her mother-in-law can be especially thorny and wearying, but God has given women big reasons to lean in and love well.

Restore the Sweetness to Your Marriage

Restore the Sweetness to Your Marriage

Sweetness in marriage doesn’t just happen. It takes intentionality, discipline, and patience. Here are five practical ways to pursue it together.

How Much Do You Love Chocolate?

How Much Do You Love Chocolate?

God filled the world with good things. Satan would love to use them to keep you from joy in Jesus. Don’t rob God’s gift of their real joy in him.

The Danger of Theological Pride

The Danger of Theological Pride

Theological pride lurks behind many of the strong convictions we have. Convictions are a good thing, assuming we’re conveying them to others in a loving manner.

Ready to Commit, Slow to Compare

Ready to Commit, Slow to Compare

A Recipe for Real Community

Church communities look different for every group of believers. But what never changes is our desperate need for one another.

Five Ways Children Will Change the World

Five Ways Children Will Change the World

The American Dream teaches us to settle for a child or two, so that we can focus on other more important opportunities in life. One of the best ways to change the world, though, is to have and raise kids. With these little ones, we can pass on truths and passions that will shape and affect society.

Rescued from the Sea of Self

Rescued from the Sea of Self

Are you lost in a sea of self-absorption, or are you pushing against the grain to see how God is at work in others’ lives around you?

In Defense of Date Night

In Defense of Date Night

Your dates don’t have to look like the Joneses, but don’t go to the other extreme and forget about them altogether.

Raising a Family Far from Home

Raising a Family Far from Home

If God has taken you far from family for his name’s sake, he plans to give you the family you need through your local church.

Give Your Teenager to God

Give Your Teenager to God

Our children’s growing independence should not lead us to fear, but to trust. Even when our kids step out of our reach, they never step out of God’s.

Say ‘Thank You’ to Someone Today

Say ‘Thank You’ to Someone Today

If gratefulness rises up in our hearts, but never spills out of our mouths, we are only experiencing the beginnings of real joy.

To Hurting Wives in Ministry: How God Works Through Heartache

To Hurting Wives in Ministry

How God Works Through Heartache

The wives of pastors often suffer in ways few recognize. So, how do we press on in ministry when we want to walk away?

Mothering in a World of Better Moms

Mothering in a World of Better Moms

Our righteousness and rest do not come from providing our children with the most nutritious meals or the best education. They come from Christ.

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