I recently had a funny moment with the Holy Spirit. Of the ways God speaks to us, for me, most of it seems to happen while I am in the shower. Because of this, I have learned to keep my phone nearby in case I need to take note of a “spiritual download.” I do […]
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“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7:13-14 (NIV) Today I am reflecting on the reality of
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Weighing the Cost As I close this series on the journey of telling my story, I want to address the other struggles I shared but did not go into detail. In my book, I share three areas of my life that had been hardest to overcome and get to a healthy place: relationships, finances, and
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Healing and Sharing Our Stories As I continue to share this journey, I am reflecting on my original intent. I wanted to skate the surface, use fun metaphors and analogies, and tell everyone about the goodness of God. I wanted to keep a safe distance from people, and I absolutely did not want to be
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As I begin, I understand the next few posts will be my most personal series of posts yet. I say yet, not ever because I have accepted that I will go as deep as God wants me to go. When I started this journey of sharing my writing publicly, I never intended to share deeply
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Lately, I have been thinking about how as a child, I would sometimes hear older people say, “We’re living in the end times,” whenever some extreme and devastating news story was reported. I did not understand what it meant, but it sounded scary. As an adult, I now understand. I do not watch the news,
I was first inclined to title this post, “But I Digress, Part Two,” but felt the Holy Spirit’s correction because this is not a digression or even a rant. It is a simple plea to pastors. A conversation I had with a young woman about her church experience left me feeling sad at what is
Have you ever heard someone say, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater?” When I have conversations with people who are not followers of Christ, this idiom seems to always come to mind. Typically, there is a story involved about how they used to go to church and were really into it but at
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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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Variations of this quote have been around for a long time. Until I read it in a devotional recently, I had not thought much of it and would have even agreed. As I continue to learn, grow, and question everything we have been conditioned to believe or agree with, this statement is one I feel
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