Description

Does life ever feel like you’re walking a tightrope, just trying to keep it all together? You’re not alone. Many Christian women wrestle with how to biblically balance the demands of everyday life. It can be challenging to navigate all the tensions. Family and ministry. Self-denial and liberty. Patience and confrontation. The temporal and eternal. The inner and outer man. Reality and hope. Striving and trusting. 

The encouraging news is that Scripture teaches us how to balance each of these seven areas of life. It even helps us recognize the symptoms that arise when we begin to lose our balance. Learn what it looks like to live a life of faith while Keeping Your Balance to the glory of God.

About the Author

Pam Hardy has been a pastor’s wife for over 40 years, having served alongside her husband in Texas, California, and North Carolina. One of her greatest joys is ministering to other  women and sharing the practical wisdom of God’s Word. She has ministered internationally as a Bible teacher and conference speaker. Pam resides in North Carolina, where her husband Carey is the senior pastor of Twin City Bible Church. They are greatly blessed to have four adult children and three grandchildren.

Endorsements

Pam Hardy has written an excellent book that insightfully reflects on the balancing acts that all of us perform every day. I know that reading this will improve my sense of balance and I trust yours as well. In addition to being full of biblical wisdom, this book is a pleasure to read. Everything from writing style, to illustrative material, to opening and closing illustrations make this a satisfying read.

- Tedd Tripp
Shepherding the Heart Ministries

I have long admired Pam as a wife, mother, and church-member, and have always treasured any opportunity to learn from her on any topic. This book is all the more valuable, given the relevance of the topic for anyone seeking to honor the Lord with their lives. Pam was such a blessing to myself and the women at Grace during her years here—I am grateful that a wider audience will now be able to benefit from her.

- Patricia MacArthur, Pastor’s Wife
Grace Community Church, Sun Valley, CA

I am privileged to recommend Pam’s book on Keeping Your Balance. She and her husband, Carey, have been friends of our family while navigating church ministry and family life. In these eight chapters, Pam unfolds the important role biblical balance plays in both of those areas. Balance, sometimes, as Warren Wiersbe would say, “is that moment in time when we are going from one extreme to another.”
Pam understands the privileges and responsibilities of life and the discouragement, confusion, and /or ineffectiveness life can bring. She does an excellent job guiding readers to a life of better balance with clear instruction from God’s Word and the focus on Christ.
In each chapter or her book, there are precepts and principles for every person with the acknowledgement of the many variables and seasons of life: age, singleness or marriage, children, health or vocation, etc. Since there is no one size fits all, the application questions at the end of each chapter help the reader appropriately apply the key precepts and principles discussed. Readers will be encouraged by this book that creates a renewed zeal for refreshing biblical balance, while pressing upward to the high calling in Christ Jesus; by the Spirit, and for God’s glory. 

- Stuart W. Scott
Director of One-eighty Ministries, and of Member Care and Concerns at ACBC

I heartily recommend Keeping Your Balance: Navigating Wisely through the Challenges of Life. Pam Hardy has written an immensely practical book, full of wisdom and Scripture. She achieves her purpose of helping the reader balance seemingly opposite realities in seven key areas. Each chapter ends with a helpful summary of the negative effects of falling into either extreme. The study questions at the close of each chapter offer helpful suggestions, which help the reader dig deeper into the Bible to find the truth. I recommend Pam Hardy’s book for personal study or group Bible studies.

- Caroline Newheiser, Pastor’s Wife
Certified Biblical Counselor, ACBC
Assistant Coordinator of Women’s Counseling, Reformed Theological Seminary