I listed to a beautiful testimony from a missionary today who is from eastern Africa. She grew up locally to me, in northeastern Ohio, but moved to Africa a few years ago with her husband and their three children. But now, her residence is IN Africa, and I just want to give a nod to…
You know, one thing I think I’ve too long denied is my desire to empower women. I let A LOT get in the way of my personal security, and even let many people talk me out of this mission. I’ve had people tell me my desire to show women how beautiful they are was vain…
Recently, there’s been some drama with evangelist, Clayton Jennings, and blogger/pastor JD Hall. If you don’t know who either of these people are, don’t worry about it. It’s not worth looking into – it’s just dumb, but I’ll sum it up: an entitled and proud millennial evangelist is super mad about a conservative, judgmental blogger…
Dear Desiring God, John Piper, and anyone else that thinks only Christians can actually love, You’re wrong. I used to really like Desiring God, and I used to really admire you, John Piper. And you’re a brilliant guy, you really are. But sometimes, I think you take things a bit (or a lot) too far.…
I used to carry this scripture in my order book when I worked in restaurants. It’s from a chapter in 1 Peter titled, ‘Living for God.’ It continues: Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 Each of you should…
If you’re like me, you jam. And lately, a good jam for me has been ‘No Roots‘ by Alice Merton. And it strikes me as somehow familiar, because it feels like my 2016. At the beginning of that year, I prayed to God for a word or an intention, and ‘roots’ is what I got.…
Today is World Breast Pumping Day, and it’s so sentimental to me that my youngest babe is also one month old today! *if breast feeding/pumping/breast milk weirds you out, do not proceed – there, you’ve been warned, ha!* Just a little back story: after my daughter (my first child) was born, I really wanted to…
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39 NIV) Of all the things…
“In Romans chapter 6 verse 2 Paul refers to “the believer died to sin.” In verse 6, however, the old self is “crucified” – a slow and agonizing form of death. The ” body of sin” is not suddenly wiped out, but gradually rendered powerless. This metaphor describes a struggle that continues throughout a believer’s…
Never tell me I can’t do it. To me, I danced With two hearts. And I breathed With four lungs. To me, I’ve been ice Fire and wind. I’ve taken In my belly The weight of two worlds, And I have born Life is screaming. That I embraced To sadness without fear. And I cried…
There are a plethora of blogs and articles out there right now about Lauren Daigle’s recent interview, during which she was asked if she “felt” homosexuality is a sin. And people are irked by her answer. She said, “I can’t honestly answer on that, in the sense of I have too many people that I…
“Some people will never like you. Because your spirit irritates their demons.” I know full well that I am not everyone’s cup of tea. Sometimes I am too ambitious, too forward, too optimistic, too bubbly, too casual, too… whatever. Some of those things are a lack of sensitivity on my part, I admit it, and…
