There it was in my feed as I was scrolling through my Facebook: “Nine Secrets Your Pastor’s Wife Wishes You Knew” on Shattered Magazine online. “THAT’S ME!” I thought. Click! As a wife of a husband who “happens to be the Pastor,” the words “Secrets, Pastor’s Wife and Wishes” drew my eyes in. I was […]
Romans 11:36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen While many of us just had a “thankfulness feast’, there were others out there who were just happy to have a sandwich. Because at least it was something. I know this because of a Spirit-led thing […]
There is nothing “old” about the gospel-or boring! This is a “re-run” of a post as first seen over at Shattered Magazine! “Once upon a time there was a Plain Jane. Plain Jane didn’t have an exciting testimony. She wasn’t snatched from the jaws of heinous sin like murder or prostitution or substance abuse. Plain […]
I am a Christian, and I felt led to write Brittany Maynard a letter before she made the final decision to end her own life. I ignored that leading. I told myself her choice wasn’t my business, and that Brittany would make her own peace with God. I reasoned that she probably would never have read […]
The Skinny on My Recovery as a Starving Glutton It almost started all over again. I was at the gym for a weigh-in this week, and I weighed in alright. Each measurement that sized me up screamed the same condemning message in my ear: Christy, you are a tub-o-lard and that is all you will ever […]
I admire her, and I don’t even remember her name. Yet, Jesus—the “Name Above All Names” —worked through her to send a ray of beautiful comfort that cradled me in my darkest hour. The days leading up to that moment were hard. So hard. Mom had been ill so long. But even though she couldn’t […]
Photo Credit Creation Swap, Travis Silva Inside Light Romans 8: 38-39 “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 […]
©CreationSwap/Nathan Gamble Darkness… Before the world began, there was a void in time too sparse to even imagine what complete nothingness is truly like. And then, GOD. SPOKE. With the power of His words, He took that darkness and caused light to shine by saying: “LET THERE BE LIGHT. Suddenly, light BURST onto the scene. […]
vb0h I was reminded of the power of our sun today while driving the girls to school. I turned a corner to get on Main Street and, POW!! That sunlight was like, RIGHT. THERE. in my face. There was no seeing around it. I had to lean over in my seat toward a few […]
I just recently returned home from a month long trip across country. That means miles and miles and MILES of highway stretched out before us decorated with road signs and billboards.I saw a bunch of billboards along the way advertising hotels, theme parks, political/social agendas and also a few promoting religious concepts (or degradation of […]
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