Join the quest and Accept The Love Challenge!
![How to Love Others [with the Heart of The Creator]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/435B6A2E-A5CF-43E1-A90D-C4A704094B14.png)
How to Love Others with God’s Heart My good friend, Michele, and I are reading/studying Bonhoeffer’s book, Life Together. And both of us agree this book will forever change our lives [and the way we greet and, subsequently, love our brothers and sisters in Christ]. Truth be told, we could walk away from reading the…
![The Best Kind of Friend… [and God’s Purpose in Suffering.]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/A4A34026-4B78-4E7D-BD8C-9D74E63CC826.png)
The best kind of friend is a praying friend. It’s no secret 2024 has been a hard year for the Rains’ household. Little by little, I’ve pulled back the curtains in this season of life and let friends in… I might’ve overshared a time or two. But the reality is when we share our “stuff,”…
To Correct or Not to Correct? Have you ever made a snap judgement about someone or something? Sadly, I often make snap judgements. But recently, I found myself the recipient of someone else’s snap judgement. And it took all the Jesus-lovin’ strength I could muster, friends, not to email this person and set them straight….
![God’s [Amazing] Grace…](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/82344DE5-AFBE-49FE-9753-6EDB5FBDF097.png)
At the heart of accepting The Love Challenge is a “holy yearning” for God’s LOVE to illuminate your life. When we meet the challenge to love a broken world with God’s amazing grace and unfathomable love, we are transformed to Christ-likeness. LOVE is the light of the world and extraordinary grace the distinguishing mark of…
![Over My Head… [Hope and Prayer for Heavenly Justice]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/989549A1-53D5-4FA0-A1EE-7C9F1B6D2A76-1024x1013-1.jpeg)
Yesterday, someone in my feed asked the question “What moment over the past year stands out for you?” She was referring to George Floyd, of course. One such moment was the words of @esaumccaulley when He said “LOVE is sufficient to gather all the divided peoples of the world, people like George Floyd. There is…
![How to LOVE others… [a #TLCjourney]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/92966B60-6ED6-4E8B-A776-D439BDC53C5F-edited-scaled-1.jpeg)
The Love Challenge is a strategy for tackling the greatest challenge ever set before us—loving one another! If the world is our mission field as Christ followers, then the Love Challenge is our field guide; prompting us to be ‘so full’ of God’s love. But the world isn’t only a mission field, it is a…
![Taking a Giant Step Towards Holiness [because…]](https://rachelwrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/3A2D336E-5FC3-4CCD-9B09-0F20E97E0331.jpeg)
And we all could use a dose of holiness right about now… I don’t know about you, but I am far from perfect when it comes to loving others well. I often struggle the most in the small, daily annoyances of humanity. Last week, I readily shared this character flaw with hubby. And in his…