![]() She is a collector of retro Pyrex ware and is a die-hard fan of the Detroit Tiger baseball team. She is a lover of coconut and dark chocolate, sharpened Ticonderoga #2 pencils, whimsical notecards, and any kind of Post It note. She is married to her college sweetheart Todd and they make their home in a small town in the middle of the Mitten-Michigan, America’s “High Five.” They are the parents of six adult children, three biological and three in-laws by marriage, although she forgets which are which. She is a cum laude graduate of Spring Arbor University with a BA in Social Science and is a member of the SAU Alumni Board of Directors. ![]() Karen has been a guest on national media including TODAY Parenting, , FamilyLife, Engaging Women, Moody Midday Connection, At Home Live, and Focus on the Family. She and Ruth also co-wrote the ECPA best-seller Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus. She also released a Bible study with LifeWay on the letter of Philippians called What Matters Most. ![]() Her most recent devotional, co-authored with Ruth Schwenk of The Better Mom is entitled Settle My Soul: 100 Quiet Moments to Meet with Jesus and was selected as the 2020 Devotional and Gift Book of the Year. She has authored seventeen books and Bible studies including the New York Times bestseller Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It and When to Say Nothing at All. She also contributes to the First 5 teaching team, an app designed to help you spend the first five minutes of every day reading the Bible. Karen writes for Encouragement For Today, an online devotional that reaches over four million women daily. Described as profoundly practical, engagingly funny, and downright real, her passion is to help women to live their priorities and love their lives as they serve God and others. Unsolicited opinion-slinging, speaking the truth in love, not saying words just to people-please and dealing with our verbal anger are sub-topics that will also be addressed.Each session will feature a different character from the Bible, using them either as an example of someone to emulate or whose verbal actions we should avoid replicating.Sessions include:Sparks, Squabbles, Spats, and Such: Our Words MatterOn Filling Gaps and Zipping Lips: Listen to Others, Talk to GodOpinion-Slinging and Salty Speech: Assessing Our Digital TonguesGossip, Flattery, and People-Pleasing: How to Speak the Truth in LovePause Before You Pounce: On Cultivating Soft SpeechAs Sweet as Honey: Wonderful Ways to Use Your WordsDesigned for use with the Keep It Shut Video Study 9780310819417 (sold separately).Karen Ehman is a Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker and New York Times bestselling author. Even the words we say silently to ourselves. Using our speech to interact with friends, co-workers, family and strangers will be covered along with the many places we use our words such as in private, in public, online and in prayer. Or what to do when you've said something you wish you could now take back.Beyond just a ' How not to gossip' study, Karen will teach what the Bible says about the many ways we are to use our words and the times when we are to remain silent. Vis merįrom Bible times to modern times women have struggled with their words: what to say and how to say it. ![]() Unsolicited opinion-slinging, speaking the truth in love, not saying words just to people-please and dealing with our verbal anger are sub-topics that will also be addressed.Each session will feature a different character from the Bible, using them either as an example of someone to emulate or whose verbal actions we should avoid replicating.Sessions include:Sparks, Squabbles, Spats, and Such: Our Words MatterOn Filling Gaps and Zipping Lips: Listen to Others, Talk to GodOpinion-Slinging and Salty Speech: Assessing Our Digital TonguesGossip, Flattery, and People-Pleasing: How to Speak the Truth in LovePause Before You Pounce: On Cultivating Soft SpeechAs Sweet as Honey: Wonderful Ways to Use Your WordsDesigned for use with the Keep It Shut Video Study 9780310819417 (sold separately). From Bible times to modern times women have struggled with their words: what to say and how to say it.
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