Loving Fiercely
Their love is fierce, in the passionate moments and in the conflict, and though I know they’d rather skip the fighting all together, they’ve learned how to hold on. Tight. Love isn’t always flowers,...
View ArticlePulling Back the Veil on Christian Love
Scroll through social media long enough, and chances are you’ll read a few (or more) negative posts regarding Christians and Christianity. Some say we’re intolerant, others that we’re hateful,...
View ArticleLearning Through a Child
Photo by David Castillo taken from freedigitalphotos.net I admit it, I’m a needy Christian. I crave need and crave constant attention from my heavenly Father, especially when He’s nudging me into a new...
View ArticleRaising Children Who Reveal Christ
I had a very difficult pregnancy, one characterized by the constant fear that I would lose the precious child I’d prayed for, that I’d grown to love so deeply, from the moment I knew she existed....
View ArticleMarked With a Seal
For years, I spiraled into self-destruction, ultimately ending up homeless. Well before my eighteenth birthday. I don’t know the statistics, but I do know the probability of one climbing out of that...
View ArticleFilled to Overflowing
For years, I was a stale and stagnate Christian. Christ had deposited His living water within my sole, but it was more like a trickling creek than the gushing river He desired. I wasn’t thriving. In...
View ArticleEmbracing the Impossible
The person who lives completely yielded to Christ will often find themselves taking on tasks that feel utterly beyond them. Or perhaps to put it another way, we can’t live Spirit-empowered in our...
View ArticleRemaining Attuned to God from Start to finish and every moment in between
I have a tendency to run ahead of God. I’ll sense a call to action and a surge of His Spirit within, then race ahead, without divine clarity on the how. Do you ever do that? Do you ever assume that...
View ArticleTrusting Our Advocate – guest post by Candy Arrington
For several years prior to her death, I served as a caregiver and advocate for my 96-year-old aunt. Her advanced age brought hearing loss, which made it difficult for her to understand health care...
View ArticleFollowing the Holy Spirit’s Prompting – guest post by Debb Hackett
Following the Holy Spirit’s Prompting by Debb Hackett I know you know the feeling. You’re sitting or standing, working, or playing peacefully, and an idea drops into your mind. You dismiss it. And...
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