Sharla Fritz

You Are God’s Chosen Instrument: 3 Ways to Make Music in His Hands

Sharla September 8, 2015

Piano is my chosen instrument. I started playing the piano when I was five years old and loved it from the beginning. The ability to make music with my own fingers seemed like magic to me. After a year of piano, my parents bought a spinet organ and for about seven years I took lessons […]

Free Resource: 59 Ways to Care For Your Soul

Sharla September 3, 2015

Our lives are hectic. We often neglect the most important part of us–our soul. Read about my Soul Spa Kit that outlines 59 ways to care for your soul. Find out how to get this FREE Kit at the bottom of this post. Have you seen the Baby Blues comic where the Baby Blues mom […]

Finding Faith When Life Hurts

Sharla September 1, 2015

Today I’m over at my friend Meadow Rue’s blog. Meadow Rue Merrill is an award-winning writer, contributing magazine editor and mom of six including Ruth, who was adopted from Uganda. Meadow doesn’t wear a clerical collar. She didn’t graduate from seminary, but she believes that God is intimately involved in her everyday life, an experience she […]

A Quick Guide to Scripture Meditation

Sharla July 28, 2015

Sit still. Breathe in. Breathe out. Focus. Sounds impossible right? Meditation can seem difficult and impractical–even intolerable. Meditation can appear nebulous and mysterious–even an invitation to trouble. In fact, some types of meditation are dangerous. Eastern meditation emphasizes the emptying of the mind. Jesus warned against this in Luke 11:24-26 where He said an empty […]

When Your Spiritual Growth Seems Stalled: Think About Going To The Spa Instead Of The Gym

Sharla July 21, 2015

After church one Sunday, a member of our congregation jokingly announced that our services would be much shorter if he gave the sermon. He would edit the message down to a few key words: “Listen up people—do good stuff.” If he wasn’t joking, I think he may have missed the point. Yet, at the same […]

6 Ways to Worship When Your Worship Has Grown Stale

Sharla July 9, 2015

I remember a day when worship happened instinctively. The sky was bright with the setting sun. As the sun bounced it’s rays on the clouds the sky turned gold, then pink, then purple. I stopped watering my begonias for a minute and worshiped. I have to admit that too often the only worshiping I do […]

Freedom From The Tyranny Of People-Pleasing

Sharla July 2, 2015

God has given me freedom, but I don’t always live as if I am free. I get tangled up in the chains of ambition and people-pleasing. Although I am free in Christ, I sometimes willingly step into shackles that prevent from living in that freedom. It seems like this is nothing new. When the apostle […]

The Number One Thing to Learn in a Period of Waiting

Sharla June 25, 2015

Waiting is not my best thing. But the story of Elizabeth in the Bible helped me learn something important during a period of waiting. Elizabeth had a long wait. The Bible tells us that the mother of John the Baptist was “advanced in years” when she gave birth to him. (Read her story in Luke […]

Great Expectations: What to Do When Life Disappoints

Sharla June 23, 2015

We expect great things out of life. But often life disappoints us. A while back, my husband and I were scrolling through Netflix, trying to find something to watch. I spied a movie with a plotline described as, “An accomplished pianist’s life takes a terrible turn. An aimless college student becomes her caregiver and the […]

When You Need God’s Embrace

Sharla June 18, 2015

A little girl, not even two, was sitting with her mother in church. It was a new church for them, they had only attended there a couple of times. The little girl sat patiently through the hymns. She quietly listened to the Bible readings. But when the congregation stood for the reading of the Gospel […]

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