Author: Dara Halydier

Dara Halydier is a pastor’s wife, a Bible teacher, a conference and retreat speaker, a mentor, a friend, and the mother of 5 grown boys! She homeschooled for 21 wonderful years is now encouraging other homeschooling families by speaking across the nation at homeschool conferences.

Hope in Giving

“Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make…

Hope Leads to Holiness

“’And I will welcome you, And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daughters to Me.’ Says the Lord Almighty. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” 2…

Pray Big

“…for the favor bestowed on us through the prayers of many.” 2 Corinthians 1:11b Do your prayers matter? When I think of this question, I remember a drawing that one of the boys did years ago as we were studying Moses. They drew a picture of Moses in Midian shepherding…

Comfort One Another

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted…

Answer to Test Question

The answer to yesterday’s question: A friend is a new Christian. She is trying to learn to trust God. A severe physical issue has come up in her life. She wrote me that she is frustrated because she was testing God with this. She implied that she felt that God…

How Would You Respond?

“Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures…” Luke 24:45 Today it’s your turn. I have a case study for you to think about and reply back to me with your answers. Then I will give you my answer tomorrow! A friend is a new Christian. She is trying…

The Great Counselor

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.” –God Psalm 32:8 Stuck? Ask the Great counselor. How do we receive this counsel? Through the Word of God, Biblical songs, other Godly people, a heart of…

The End Game: Trust

“But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head. I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustains me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people Who have set themselves against me round about. Arise, O…

Right Perspective

“A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time. At the harvest time, he sent a slave to the vine-growers, so that they would give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and…