Hey friends!

I hope everyone had a lovely Easter! We are settling into the Spring Routines, including starting seedlings, planning out gardens, and picking out homeschool curriculum for next year.

As we move into the Spring months, I start to get Spring fever. I am so ready for summer, including the pool, the beach, and long summer days! As the season changes, I like to take a moment to reassess my goals.

I post regularly on Instagram about some of these goals, as well as ideas and encouragement to help you create a life you love and cultivate your heart for God. Join the collective on Facebook by joining our Facebook group! This group is a place for like-minded believers to encourage one another to live intentionally for God. I hope you join me as we build this community together!

As I recommended in this YouTube video, I think that we need to assess our goals at least quarterly to make sure that we are staying on track. How are you doing with your New Year's Resolutions or your theme of the year? What are some things you could do now that would get you back on track? (Here's a link to our Quarterly Goal Planning sheets to help you do this kind of planning!)

On the blog, we've been talking about creating a method for Christian living. Often, we come to faith, and then, we are left wondering: "How should we then live?"

A Method of Christian Living has four steps:

1. ​Create Your Personal Statement of Faith​
2. ​Create a list of Christian Virtues to Base Your Life On ​
3. ​Create a list of guiding principles for the Christian life​
4. ​Create a Rule of Life ​

Once you have created this method of Christian living, you will have a firm biblical basis for a life that is guided by solid biblical principles and includes habits that will cultivate your heart for God.

The last step in this process - creating a Rule of Life - is the key step to make your faith. To create your rule of life, you need to:

1. Begin with a strong foundation.
2. Set your goals.
3. Brainstorm habits.
4. Map out daily, weekly, and yearly rhythms.

I would love to know if you've been working on creating this method. Reply to this email and let me know if you've been working on this. I'd love to hear some ideas that you have for your Rule of Life.

You can get our FULL bundle on creating your method of Christian living on the blog. ​

Struggling with creating a personal statement of faith? Here is our NEW Systematic Theology Study! Download today!

Here's something just for you from the AMBL Shop!

One of our newest resources in the shop is our AMBL Collective Morning Menus. This Menu is a resource to help you redeem your education and learn the best that Western Civilization has to offer while cultivating your heart for God. These Menus will beckon you to focus on the good, true, and beautiful while you create a life you love and cultivate your heart for God.

Download our first-ever Menu below! (Print on short edge binding to get a booklet you can keep in your Bible.)

I'll be posting videos that go over the purpose of these menus in the weeks to come!

In case you missed it:

4 Steps for Creating A Rule of Life This episode gets super practical for how to create a rule of life that helps you to include habits that inspire you to live for God every day. View Post

How to Create Guiding Biblical Principles of Faith for Life Principles are our guardrails and guides that help us to make wise decisions in life. Read more on how to make guiding principles of faith for life. View Post

What is a Rule of Life? Read the Post Here - S1E33 Want to create a life that is full of habits that inspire you to love God more and live this Christian life well? This episode will help you understand the basics of what a rule of life is and why you should make one. (Want extra help? Get a copy of our workbook to develop a Rule of Life here!) ​ Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts While you're there, would you leave a 1-2 sentence rating and review for the podcast? This helps others find the show! I would be so grateful!

On YouTube

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This week in our mini-series on getting things done from a godly perspective, we're talking about the Weekly Review, a key habit that helps you to get things done. This is the last episode of this mini-series! Head on over to YouTube and let us know some of your goals!

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