What Love Is – and isn’t
The day everything came to a head was my first experience holding a weeping abuse victim. She was in her thirties; I was nine.
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When you realize you’re living a life beyond control
Who is in control? God is. He has my good in mind, and He is 100 percent ready to display His glory in and through my weakness.
The Power of Welcome: Helping Our Kids Choose Love over Fear
This is the rigorous life of love worth living, love that opens the world to us, that leads us toward discovery and transformation.
The Lies We Believe and the Truths We Need
Jesus wants to restore you. And make no mistake about it: He will also destroy the works of the enemy in your life.
A 4 Step Battle Plan to Destroy Fear
We fear because ultimately we wonder if we can trust God to do His job well.
The secret to stopping the anxiety spiral
I believe God in His gracious mercy repeated this command as an encouragement because He knew fear is the tool the enemy would use to try to derail us, distract us and depress us.
How Your Heart Can Be Brave Enough to Risk Again
I’m practicing not “getting over” things but instead walking through them
Why It’s Okay to Let Yourself Be Seen: Living Life Undefended
Authenticity means eliminating the gap between your inner belief and what you reveal to the outside world—in other words, letting your true self be seen.
the secret that wins the battles you are in
There is nothing in the world like worship to break the power of the Enemy.
How to Fight for Your Life: When You Kinda Enter a Full-Blown Ugly Cry
You may not want to embrace where you are, but it is so important to embrace whose you are.
True Story: Why You Don’t Have to Be Brave Anymore
You are able to walk Jesus strong because of who He is and what He has already done.
Has God asked you to abandon your dream?
The gospel of Jesus Christ is our only hope and security of enduring approval, of eternal validation, of spiritual fulfillment, of eternal joy.
the reason why it’s deeply okay — to not be okay
Even in our moments of greatest weakness and doubt, Christ remains our strength, holding us up out of the water, confidently taking each blow from the waves with which life is unrelentingly battering us.
when you just want to find God in the ruins of everyday life
Sometimes it feels as if God has invited Himself into my pain, when I had hoped to be invited into His healing.
When You’re In the Middle of A Life Story — And You Just Want the Spoilers
For in the end, it will be fine.
